ESTATE SALE
The item listed here comes from the estate of my mother-in-law after she passed away. We're going through the items that she collected while she worked in the entertainment industry.
She started her career as a Page on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood, California in the mid-1990s. From there she worked in various departments such as the mail room, Special Events and Product Development (Licensing) where she had access to numerous one of a kind items like prototype collectables, scripts and behind the scenes images and details. She then moved on to other companies in the entertainment industry in positions both on and off production.
Over the years, she obtained an extensive collection of rare Hollywood items, especially from her favorite franchise "Star Trek". Scripts, crew gifts, screen used props, prototypes for collectables, rare discoveries at the Archive Building and much, much more.
This item up for bids would make a great addition to any Star Trek fan’s collection. It is a script from the show:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”
“The Other Emissary”
(FIRST DRAFT VERSION)
&
“Accession”
(FINAL DRAFT VERSION)
SEASON #4
SEASONAL EPISODE #20
SERIES EPISODE #92
From the writer's offices of "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine" in the Hart building on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood.
This package contains both the
FIRST DRAFT
&
FINAL DRAFT
Versions of the script!
(Note that the physical script pages to NOT have the “First Draft” or “Final Draft” indicators in red as seen in the photos.
Those were added for auction clarification as to which version you are looking at.)
See what changed from the initial story breakdown in the first draft to the approved final draft that was used for filming the episode.
A rare glimpse into the workings and alterations of an episode!
Both scripts are printed on white paper only as no alterations were yet done to the final draft as filming had not yet commenced.
For more detail about this, please refer to the web site for
Set Hero as they have a detailed description of script handling on productions, or do a google search for the many articles that talk about script revisions. (Screen shot also attached in auction details for clarity.)
They are in near pristine condition with some slight discoloration due to age as well as some MINOR creases from use and age. It has been stored in a plastic storage bag with a cardboard backing ever since the season was completed.
This item is the real deal, not a copy of a copy of a copy like a lot of other auctions that you'll run into.
Always kept in a non-smokers house!
NO torn pages!
NO missing pages!
NO stains or other damage!
The FIRST DRAFT script is 57 pages in length.
(58 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide.)
Written on Decemer 1, 1995
The FINAL DRAFT script is 60 pages in length.
(65 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide.)
Written on January 5, 1996
First aired on February 26, 1996
Background information quoted from the Memory Alpha web site:
Story and script
- The working title of this episode was "The Other Emissary". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library)
- First draft script – 1 December 1995.
- The producers had to fight to get this episode made because the studio had told them not to do any shows about Bajoran religion. Episodes such as "In the Hands of the Prophets" from the first season and "The Collaborator" from the second had proved to be somewhat unpopular with viewers, and Paramount felt that shows dealing with religion in general, and Bajoran religion in particular, were not ratings winners. According to Hans Beimler, "Shows about religion, alien religion and the Prophets, are extraordinarily difficult. Not because they're hard to produce, but because they're not proven ratings winners. As a result, the studio tends to be happier when DS9 is doing action stories." Similarly, René Echevarria explains, "The studio doesn't like Bajor stories. And Bajor's religion is one aspect of Bajor to which they really don't respond." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 319)
Production
Continuity
- This episode is considered to be Part II of the "Emissary Trilogy", with Part I being "Destiny" and Part III being "Rapture", and as with "Destiny", Sisko is initially very clear in this episode about how uncomfortable he is in his role as Emissary of the Prophets. (citation needed • edit) However, this episode represents an important turning point in his attitude to his position. It is the second time the phrase "The Sisko" has been used (it was first used in the episode "Prophet Motive") and it is the first time we hear the phrase "You are of Bajor". Both of these phrases would come to have great importance in the future. As well as that, this episode marks the point at which Sisko finally begins to accept his role as Emissary (in "Destiny", he accepted that there may be more to the Prophecies than he has allowed for, but he didn't change his opinion about his own status in Bajoran religion). Throughout the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons he becomes more and more accepting of his position, something which can be seen most clearly in the fifth season episode "Rapture" (where he not only accepts his role, but embraces it and allows it to guide him), and in his interactions with the prophets in episodes like "Sacrifice of Angels", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", and, most importantly of all, the series finale "What You Leave Behind".
- This episode marks the final appearance of Camille Saviola (Opaka) on the series, with Opaka appearing first to Sisko in an orb shadow and then later as the form assumed by a Prophet.
- During her meeting with Sisko, Kira mentions the four-shift duty rotation she suggested to him in "Starship Down". Since then, it went through a probationary period and Kira notes that it's improved the performance of crewmembers and they've made less mistakes due to fatigue, so Sisko decides to make the change permanent.
- Bashir and O'Brien tease Worf about when he delivered Molly in 2368 in TNG: "Disaster". Worf is so uncomfortable about this that he schedules leave so he will not be present when Keiko is due, just to make sure it does not happen again. (Ironically, Worf does appear in "The Begotten" but avoids helping with the birth.)
- In the scene in Quark's where Bashir and O'Brien talk about playing darts without each other, a laboratory squeeze bottle can be seen under the bar, redressed as some kind of alien drinking glass.
- Kira's line "That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary" is a paraphrase of a quotation often incorrectly attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, which reads "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." It is more plausibly attributed to Father John LaFarge, S.J., circa 1934.
- Bashir and O'Brien order several pints of ale during this episode and never finish any of them. In one case, O'Brien leaves after having no more than a single mouthful.
- Quark's statement about everything babies handle "goes straight into their ears" is one of the few times that a Ferengi says "ears" instead of "lobes."
- Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode, though he is mentioned by Miles when he tells Keiko about a book he gave Molly that she really loves.
- Kira's lack of artistic skill was first mentioned in Season 2's "The Circle", where Kira stated she had "no artistic ability whatsoever."
Reception
- David Warner was approached for the role of Akorem. Ira Steven Behr commented "Personally, I wanted David Warner as Akorem. He wanted to do it, but his wife talked him out of it because he was on vacation and she didn't want him to work. To this day I still wish David Warner was in it. I think it's a really interesting script and idea, and it leaves us with a nice, interesting mystery. It's a good show, and Avery was great, but I wanted him to have a better opponent". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- Actor Colm Meaney was unhappy with the decision to have O'Brien's quarters in disarray due to Keiko's absence. Meaney states that, "It was expedient to have some sort of what's considered humor in the script, but I object to saying this man is incapable of keeping his apartment tidy when his wife's away. That's a cliché." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 320)
- Jane Espenson commented: "The whole Trek experience, at TNG and DS9, was incredibly positive. Thank you, Star Trek!"
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