TREKCORE > VOY > EPISODES > RESISTANCE > Behind the Scenes

	Alan Scarfe, who plays Augris, plays the Romulan, Admiral Mendak, in TNG's Data's Day and Tokath in TNG's Birthright.
	Winrich 'Rick' Kolbe directed this episode. Stephen Edward Poe (Voyager - A Vision of the Future writer) described Kolbe as "Slender, moustachioed, handsome in a Teutonic sense (he's Prussian), Kolbe looked the part of the dapper director. (For a meeting about Eye Of The Needle) He was casually but impeccably dressed in a brown sweater and slacks, and seemed completely at ease with the environment and the people around him. With good reason. In the world of Star Trek production, Rick Kolbe is a seasoned, master director. Over the last nine years Kolbe has directed more than two dozen Star Trek episodes, covering both TNG and DS9. He was picked by Rick Berman to direct the new series' pilot Caretaker."
	Teleplay-writer Lisa Klink: "Getting Janeway into a completely different milieu, where she's not on the bridge, she's not being captain, was all wonderful for the character. One of the best things you can do for a character is get them out of their normal situation."
	Lisa Klink was given "Resistance" to do the teleplay for after selling "Hippocratic Oath" to "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". "I kind of thought they would get me started a little more slowly, maybe doing some rewrites, maybe doing some story work, but 'Resistance' was the first thing they hit me with. They had bought this story document from freelancers, and it had kind of been shelved temporarily. The story was very problematic. First, because it's about the old guy. How do you make it about Janeway? The second problem was the story's episodic. They go here, they go there. We needed an overall arc to the story, and Janeway needed to be driving it. Budget was also a problem, because we generally build two new sets, and this whole thing takes place on an alien planet. They have to start out on this journey from someplace and end up someplace, and that's our two sets. Do they go anyplace in between? We have to build that too, then. I was an arduous break (referring to the process of "breaking down a story" into sections and co-ordinating them). We ended up building three sets: a town square, the prison, and cabin (Caylem's quarters). We tried really hard to set it in the cave set which is a standing set, but just couldn't do it. It was a horrendously expensive episode."