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	Writer Brannon Braga: "Sometimes I get ideas for dramatic structures in playing with time and space and the ways in which we can tell stories. I just thought it would be really bizarre if you told a story for an act or two and suddenly you found yourself in the middle of a different story on a different Voyager, but they're occupying the same point of time and space. My favorite scene is the moment when you're on the Voyager that's coming apart at the seams, Kim is sucked into space, etcetera., and then you cut to a pristine, calm Voyager, but you get this glimpse of the other Voyager and then you pick up that story. It was extremely tough to shoot, but we needed a show that was pure action and pure high-concept sci-fi. I thought it turned out well."
	Jeri Taylor: "We have done a number of double stories in the history of Star Trek. We even had in development a story of two Enterprises in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it just was not working. It's a very difficult thing to bring off. We were trying to double every character and do an arc with each character and the double. For example, what would Troi say to herself? It just got very muddied and garbled and we abandoned it. So it was with some trepidation that we approached this idea but I think that by limiting it, it worked. Kim was dead, so you only had the other Kim. Kes was doubled but she was unconscious most of the time, so the focus was on the two Janeways, the two captains trying to work their way out of their dilemma. It gave it a focus and a limitation that I think helped the storytelling. The show came out enormously short, however. It was like eight or nine minutes short, and we kept writing scenes, and they just kept getting gobbled up on those stages. It's much better to be long than to be short. There's never any accounting for it. Why is one seventy-page script eight minutes long and with this one, with the same director, we had seventy-five pages and had to shoot two extra days to get enough material to make it long enough? It was not an inexpensive show as a result, but what I was so pleased about was I would defy anybody to know what the added material is. It is seamless. Some of the added scenes are some of the better scenes. They do not stand out as fill at all."