The Visitor

This Story: Season 4 Episode 2 (production code 476)
DS9 Overall: Episode 75
Trek Overall: Story 336, Episode 356
Airdate: 9 Oct 1995
Writer: Michael Taylor (and René Echevarria, uncredited)
Director: David Livingston

Notes

• Old Jake is played by Tony Todd, who is more well known in Star Trek for playing Worf’s brother Kurn.
• The episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1996.  It lost to a Babylon 5 episode.
• This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series in 1996, but lost to a Voyager episode – “Threshold“.
• The woman who talks to old Jake (Melanie) is played by Rachel Robinson – she is the real life daughter of Garak actor Andrew Robinson.  Rachel also later auditioned for the role of Ezri Dax.
• The future Starfleet uniforms and comm badges were the same ones used in the alternate future parts of the TNG finale, “All Good Things…“
• The first episode where Kira wears her red uniform that she wears through the rest of the series (vs the older orange one).
• In the future alternate reality, Morn ran the old bar on Deep Space Nine.

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