 This marked the first time that the actor of a recurring (but not main) "Star Trek" character had directed an episode in the franchise.Having just received two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for theatrical directing, Robinson personally asked executive producer Rick Berman to direct an episode of "Deep Space Nine"; Robinson was pleased to have been assigned this particular episode.Challenged with inventing an original way for Quark to survive the fight without directly paralleling prior material, writers devised a "holographic puppeteer" system.