Sons and Daughters

This Story: Season 6 Episode 3 (production code 526)
DS9 Overall: Episode 127
Trek Overall: Story 386, Episode 408
Airdate: 13 Oct 1997
Writer: Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

Notes

• This is the third of six episodes that comprise a story arc about the war and the station being controlled by the Dominion/Dukat.  While not an actual six part story, it is fairly tightly bound together and from the DS9 companion book, they were all created together, then the writers went off and wrote their episodes.
• Alexander is far older then he should have been given the number of years that have passed since the character was introduced back in TNG.  Ira Steven Behr said part of this is due to real life labor laws relative to how long kids under 18 can be on a TV/movie set at any one time.
• Alexander is played here by Marc Worden, the fourth overall actor to play the character.  Worden was also in a Star Trek Enterprise episode (“Affliction“) as an unnamed Klingon prisoner.  He would also return to play Alexander one last time in “You Are Cordially Invited“.
• This episode doesn’t feel like it needed to be in the six episode war arc.  The story felt like it could be anywhere.

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