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I remember [“Profit and Lace”] being a very problematic episode, simply because we shot many of the scenes over again…I’m thinking of one scene in particular, in which Moogie [Cecily Adams] and Quark have an argument and it ends up with her having a heart attack. We shot that rather darkly, and I liked [director Siddig’s] take on it quite a bit. I wanted to explore - what’s the word I’m looking for - the dysfunctional aspects of Quark’s family, the darker elements of a dysfunctional family, where things get so horrendously bad that it causes someone to have a heart attack…

I must say that Cecily didn’t care for it and, obviously, the producers didn’t care for it either. So we reshot it. I thought of that epiosde really as a one-joke episode: let’s put Quark in drag. That must have been the basic idea and then they filled in the blanks. It didn’t say much of anything. It would have been a great chance to let Quark see the other side of male chauvinism, to be a woman and to explore all of that. Perhaps he would have learned something from it. To some small degree he did, but we didn’t really explore that very much either.

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