Rivals
Joe Siegler
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Rivals
This Story: Season 2 Episode 11 (production code 431)
DS9 Overall: Episode 31
Trek Overall: Story 297, Episode 311
Airdate: 3 Jan 1994
Story by Jim Trombetta & Michael Piller
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by David Livingston
Notes
- The first episode to air in 1994.
- Martus is played by Chris Sarandon, the first husband of actress Susan Sarandon.
- As originally scripted, Mazur was going to be the son of Guinan, and have her appear here. When she was unavailable, all the references to Guinan were removed. The only part that remains was that he is an El-Alurian.
- The racquetball set was intended to be an ongoing thing for Bashir & O’Brien, but given the cost of setting it up and taking it down it was decided to replace it with something else. Darts (which had no construction cost).
- Jake Sisko does not appear in this episode.
- Two Rules of Engagement are mentioned:
#47 – “Never trust a man wearing a better suit than your own”
#109 – “Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack”
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Deep Space Nine Ep 31 - Rivals - 3 Jan 1994 1/2 A fun ep as it results in Quark panicking - a con man on the station opens up a bar across from Quark's and does better then Quark. The guy however is an El-Alurian, the same race as Guinan. In fact, this was supposed to be
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) June 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Deep Space Nine Ep 31 - Rivals - 3 Jan 1994 2/2 the son of Guinan in early drafts. There's also the strongest Bashir/O'Brien buddy stuff to date with them playing racquetball. That's honestly about as deep as this one goes. Not a terribly strong story, but I enjoyed it.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) June 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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