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”

“Shattered Mirror”

(FKA “Crossover III”)

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 61 pages in length.

(62 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide.)

Written on January 25, 1996

The FINAL DRAFT script is 59 pages in length.

(66 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide.)

Written on February 2, 1996

First aired on April 20, 1996

Background information quoted from the Memory Alpha web site:

Production

• Director James L. Conway says of the mirror universe, "It's dark and sexy, and there's no subtlety over there." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ?)
• Each of the actors who portray their mirror universe counterparts in this episode had their own distinct interpretations of the differences between the usual character and the mirror character. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ? lists some of them:
• Nana Visitor says of The Intendant, "she and Kira are exactly the same person. But the Intendant's ego has been warped, so that everything that Kira would do for her people, The Intendant does for herself. She's self-serving with a capital S!"
• Alexander Siddig says of his mirror universe counterpart, "I want him to be the inverse of Dr. Bashir, like a doppelgänger, the animus to his anima. Bashir wouldn't hurt a fly, but this guy is unstable, difficult, and stupid."
• Colm Meaney says of Smiley, "I picture him as being a bit dirty and scuzzier than the regular O'Brien, just because of what he's had to go through. He's a trickster, and there's something sort of seedy about him. Miles, on the other hand, is straight as an arrow."
• Aron Eisenberg says of Nog, "He was obnoxious and rude, so I played him like an edgy Quark."
• Aron Eisenberg, a trained martial artist, did all of his own stunts for this episode.

Reception

• Rene Echevarria commented "We got great reaction to Worf's character, so he might be the focus of the next "crossover" episode. Just a show filled references. The Jake angle was a great one, realizing that there would be a mirror Jennifer and that he would be drawn there." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages p 118) Added Hans Beimler: "Ira's directive has been that this show must be fun, fun fun. Those are the three things that he wants and I think it really does deliver on that. I'm very proud of it. It was directed by Jim Conway who did a phenomenal job."
• Of the first three mirror universe episodes, Nana Visitor favored "Shattered Mirror". Visitor commented "It was the darkest. I think I found a darker place for her, because of the way they wrote it, and I liked it." ("Introducing the Intendant", Star Trek Monthly issue 28)

Continuity

• The mirror universe version of Worf makes his first appearance in this episode. Michael Dorn was originally to appear as Worf in "Crossover", but he was unable to do so because he was shooting the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation at the time. All of his dialogue was given to Garak, and the dialogue that had been intended for Garak was used to create the character of Telok.
• Nog is the third Ferengi to die in the mirror universe. Quark was killed by Garak in "Crossover" and Rom was killed by The Intendant in "Through the Looking Glass".
• This is the only episode in DS9's mirror universe arc where Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) appears. This episode establishes that Jake was never born in the mirror universe.
• Dennis Madalone makes his third appearance as the Terran marauder. We learn he is a widower.
• The weapons locker from which Kira gets the phasers in the teaser is a reuse of the prop from "Hard Time" which was shot directly before this episode. You can recognize the number 47 on its label.
• For this episode's first terrestrial release in the UK, the scene in which Garak is stabbed by Worf was slightly edited.
• This episode marks the last on-screen appearance of any incarnation of Jennifer Sisko, and thereby actress Felecia M. Bell.
• Prior to the establishment of the history of the televised mirror universe, a mirror version of Worf appeared in the novel Dark Mirror, depicting a mirror universe in which the Terran Empire had survived well into the 24th century with Klingons being one of their many slave races. That version of Worf was a slave aboard the ISS Enterprise (ICC-1701-D) in 2367.
• One of the statues seen in the commander's office aboard Terok Nor was previously seen as Arctus Baran's statue in TNG: "Gambit, Part II".
• James L. Conway later directed ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly", another episode dealing with the mirror universe.

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