The Muse
Production Number: 493
Original air week: 4/30/96
Originally titled: "Playing House"
Written by: René Echevarria (Teleplay)
René Echevarria & Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Story)
Directed by: David Livingston
Guest Stars:
Notes:
- Lwaxana Troi was also in "The Forsaken" and
"Fascination".
- Michael Ansara also played the Klingon "Kang" in "Blood
Oath" and in a TOS episode.
- Tavnian children are raised by the parent of their gender: Boys are
raised by their fathers, and girls are raised by their mothers. The
children are not even made aware of the other gender until they are
16 years old.
- Jake is still thinking of going to the Pennington Academy in New Zealand
on Earth.
- Kasidy, Ben, and Jake were planning on going to the Bajoran Outback, but
JAke decided not to go because he was concentrating on his story.
- Kestra, Lwaxana Troi's first daughter, was six years old when she died.
The story is told more fully in the TNG episode "Dark Page".
- ~Life is a search to return to the peace you had when you were inside
your mother.~ -- someone.
- Odo became a blanket.
- The novel Jake's working on is semiautobiographical. The main
character's mother dies, but that's not what the story is about.
- Jake has never written on paper before, only on computer PADDs.
- Excerpts from Jake's novel: "Life is a search to find...mother",
"From my window...", "images flooded", "I could have...", "four
words, and I couldn't", "so much confusion", "If you rest
now...", ...
- In a Tavnian wedding, a man must stand before the wife and explain
to her why he wants to marry her. If anyone at the ceremony is not
convinced of his sincerity, they may challenge the marriage.
- Odo is now married.
- Quark is a hopeless romantic. Yeah, right. :-)
- Psionic residue dissipates within minutes.
- She has helped K-someone, K-someone-else, Keats, and others. John
Keats died at the age of 26 from phtysia. Data also mentioned Keats
in the prelude to his "Ode to Spot" in TNG's "Schisms". See some
sites about Keats:
The Author's Keyboard:
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe:
Is Odo still married, or was it annuled?
Annulled.
- Program Highlights
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Muse" -- While Odo provides shelter
for a pregnant Lwaxana Troi, Jake Sisko falls under the spell of a
mysterious woman.
- TV Guide Ad
- ODO GETS MARRIED?
Only one thing stands in the happy couple's way--her husband!
- TV Log Listing
- Odo marries Lwaxana Troi/STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE.
