jonathanarcher
I’m positive I think about pah wraith possessed Jake Sisko more than anyone else but it’s only because I think the concept is so funny. This is evil in a concentrated form that’s been waiting for this showdown for thousands of years and it goes for the local teenage writer with lots of feelings
old-type-40
It’s not mentioned in Memory Alpha but I’ve wondered if Jake being the one possessed is a call back to an earlier episode when he’s talking to Keiko who was possessed at the time.
Jake: Did you see any Pah-wraiths?
Keiko: Pah-wraiths?
Jake: In the Fire Caves. Odo was telling me the caves were haunted by some sort of weird supernatural beings.
Keiko: Don't tell me you believe in wraiths?
Odo: Well, I may have mentioned the Bajoran legends about creatures living in the caves, but I never said I believe in them.
Keiko: Well, the only thing I saw in the caves were some beautiful and botanically fascinating fungi.
Jake: Well, maybe next time you go to the Fire Caves, I could come along. I've always wanted to meet a Pah-wraith.
Keiko: Maybe you will. You never know.
But Memory Alpha did have this amusing bit of BTS info:
- The battle between the Prophet and the Pah-wraith as seen in the final episode was devised by Director Jesús Salvador Treviño. He saw it as a battle of wills rather than an all-action shoot-out, and the script was rewritten accordingly. However, while Treviño's solution might have made for some excellent television for viewers seeing the completed episode, with all the post-production effects work added, during the shoot itself, it all looked rather silly. As Dennis McCarthy, who scores an episode with a cut from raw footage, testifies, "They were just standing there, looking weird, like they were at the dentists office, thinking of their upcoming root canals." Indeed, during the shoot of this super-serious battle, both Nana Visitor and Cirroc Lofton had great difficulty keeping straight faces long enough to get complete takes. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. ?))
