So my friend Jake’s mom has like every Star Trek book ever made—the companion guides, not the novels. They’re all lined up on a shelf in order. I can’t sleep, so I plucked out the DS9 companion and started thumbing through it.
I get to one page and there’s a black and white picture of Damar kneeling over Weyoun 7’s body. Underneath it the caption reads:
“This scene wasn’t so much about Worf breaking Weyoun’s neck as Damar’s reaction to it,” Behr points out.
And I’m dying because that’s the best random fact I could have learned tonight.
From elsewhere on the same page:
Some of the best touches, however, remain Moore’s, such as the demise of Weyoun Seven. “I just knew it was going to be a fun moment,” Moore chuckles. “Weyoun would just get a little too close and say and say the wrong thing—and Worf would break his neck. And then Damar would laugh. It was gold.”
My night is 400% better than it was before I opened this book. Learning how much the neck snapping scene cracked up Rene Auberjonois is like getting a present I wasn’t expecting.
Also apparently after Damar quit drinking they lit Casey Biggs differently, to make him appear more human on screen.
This book is amazing.
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