Super underlooked DS9 character. Basically saved from being a one-off cause they needed an extra person form the episode that Jadzia's old hosts occupied her friends bodies for fun. Then she was kind of just around and working at the bar. Once her relationship with Rom got going she really comes into her own , they're adorable together. Among all the spies and terrorists in the show she's just a straight shooter and a genuinely nice person. Leeta has her shit together. Chase Masterson also advocated for worker ownership of the means of production in an interview.
Ironically he was the Grand Nagus of Ferenginar
Perfect casting, I'll need to watch those episodes again.
Other fun Ferengi fact! When they were doing Ferengi heavy episodes the actors that played them or would usually be involved would all go to Armin Shimmerman's house and do rehearsals on their own time. There's an interview with him and the showrunner who was beside himself with gratitude saying "I couldn't ask you to do that, I wouldn't ask you to do that.". For the most part (Marc Alaimo is a lot closer to Dukat IRL than comfortable and creeped out Nana Visitor from what I can tell) the cast got along super well. Avery Brooks basically tool Cirroc Lofton who played Jake as his other son. He'd go to basketball games and stuff with Avery and his family and he'd just call them all his kids and I guess they're still super close. Avery thought it was important to play a single black father super well, which is beside the point of him being that awesome to Cirroc but it reminded me and I figured it was worth a mention.
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All the writers but one at the start of DS9 were Jewish as well and tried as hard as they could to not play into that.
I always love hearing about how close the cast of DS9 was. Best Trek to watch and for the actors too.