In the Pale Moonlight

This Story: Season 6 Episode 19 (production code 543)
DS9 Overall: Episode 143
Trek Overall: Story 401, Episode 424
Airdate: 13 Apr 1998
Story: Peter Allan Fields
Teleplay by: Michael Taylor (and Ronald D. Moore – uncredited)
Director: Victor Lobl

Notes

• Ronald D. Moore has said the episode’s title is a reference to Jack Nicholson’s Joker from the 1989 Batman move who said “Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?”.
• The planet that Vreenak was coming from when he goes to DS9 was Soukara.  That’s the same planet that Worf & Jadzia were at on their mission a few episodes back in “Change of Heart“.
• The second episode in a row where Weyoun only appears as hologram.
• The first time we see a Romulan shuttle since TNG’s “The Defector“.
• This episode is structurally set similar to “Necessary Evil” & “Whispers” in that it’s mostly flashback and “current time” in this one is just Sisko’s log.
• Rule of Acquisition mentioned: #98 – “Every Man has his price”.
• There is a novel called “Hollow Men” which is both a sequel to this episode, and a prequel to the episode “His Way“.

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