By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Basically, many Star Trek fans wish to have their own Galaxy’s Edge … A way to enter the immersive world of their favorite “Strange New Worlds” and Starfleet “Strangeet” Heroes “. However, an emblematic actor of New deep space stressed that producers did Recreate one of the most brutal extraterrestrial planets in the series here on Earth, which makes distribution suffer even more than their characters. The planet in question is “Cardassia IV”, and after having shot scenes for the first of season 2 of DS9 “The Homecoming”, the actor of Kira Nerys Nana Visitor noted that their place of filming of Soledad Canyon “was the perfect Cardassia IV, because it was like hell”.
The real Cardassia IV
In the New deep space The episode “The Homecoming”, Kira proposes to save a Bajoran colleague from a notorious prison camp on Cardassia IV. The Cardassians are the equivalent of the show to the Nazis … Between this and their reputation in the universe to be vicious jailers, viewers understood that Kira had her work cut for her with this unconventional rescue mission. In real life, however, filming at Soledad Canyon meant that the visitor of Nana and other actors had to pay attention to more practical threats such as snakes and bees, while treating the type of heat that would shame the Bajor fire caves.
Ironically, the heat was the last The producers of things were worried about shooting the Cardassia IV scenes. They were actually much more worried about the actors and the crew who obtained insect bites, which is why they recommended that everyone brings a navy breeze (this eliminates the painful bite of a bite). But while the producers warned against insect bites, bee stings and snake bites, it was the heat that ended up tormenting both Nana’s visitor and the actor of the O’Brien COLM Meaney.
As she remembers, “Colm and I were sick in my stomach.” This was going beyond a kind of stomach bug … in the words of visitors: “We are seriously wondering if we were going to thermal prostration.” This made the shooting of the Cardassia IV scenes absolutely miserable, but the visitor has retained a sense of humor on the whole, insisting later so that Solodad Canyon is a perfect shot location because he has taken the hellish nature of Cardassia herself.
While turning these Cardassia IV scenes for “The Homecoming”, the actors who hated the heat hoped never again Soledad Canyon. Unfortunately, they did not get their wish: because the producers loved the way the canyon looked on the screen (it’s really East One of the most amazing places on the show), they ended up shooting scenes again for the episode of season 4 “indiscretion”, the episode of season 5 “The Ship”, and the episode of season 6 “Rocks and Shoals”.
In these episodes, Soledad Canyon was used to represent other locations rather than Cardassia IV. Unfortunately for the actors involved, Soledad Canyon has always preserved the heat which made it the ideal place for a Cardassian prison camp (in the universe, these extraterrestrials Really I love heat). Show worse is the fact that the heat was actually worse in the following episodes than for “The Homecoming”, which makes it one of the most infernal places in the history of Star Trek’s shooting.
If you always want you to enter the world of Star Trek, this story of the transformation of Soledad Canyon into Cardassia IV could convince you of the contrary. He had the kind of extreme warmth that Cardassians love and humans hate absolutely. In addition, let’s be honest … who can enjoy a hot raktajino with piping when temperatures skyrocketing?
