Meridian

This Story: Season 3 Episode 8 (production code 454)
DS9 Overall: Episode 54
Trek Overall: Story 318, Episode 334
Airdate: 14 Nov 1994
Story by Hilary Bader & Evan Carlos Somers
Teleplay by Mark Gehred-O’Connell
Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Notes

• The original title of this episode was “Prophet in the Wind”.
• The DS9 Companion book says this episode is based off of the musical Brigadoon.
• The first appearance of Jeffrey Combs on Star Trek in the first of his 8,000 characters.  This one was Tiron.  He would later play the much larger roles of Weyoun & Brunt on Deep Space Nine (and something in every incarnation of Trek after this).  Combs was one of the actors who auditioned for Riker on TNG.
• The settlement on Meridian is just a re-use of a shot for the TNG episode “Birthright, Part II“.
• The first time Dax verbalizes that her spots go “all the way” down her body.
• The first episode where we see the transporter room for the Defiant.
• The backstory of Odo’s “feelings” for Kira are expanded on here.
• The second of three DS9 episodes directed by Jonathan Frakes.  The remaining one is “Past Tense Part II“.

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