Warning: This article contains spoilers fromStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 3, episode 6.
And now, in episode 6, we get a full-onDeep Space Ninereunion.
You know what I mean?"
Armin Shimerman reprises his ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ role of Quark on ‘Lower Decks’ season 3.PARAMOUNT+
McMahan tells EW of the episode.
“Which had me crying laughing,” the showrunner mentions.
Lower Deckshad previously referenced the character and the fact that Quark’s had expanded across the quadrant.
Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore) and Col. Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) reunite on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season 3.PARAMOUNT+
“He’s a pig in s—,” as the writer-producer puts it.
That’s until the group of Karemman accuse him of stealing their technology for do so.
He wanted the antagonist aliens to feel akin to that show, while considering where the universe is post-finale.
Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman as Kira and Quark in ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.'.Everett Collection
“Going back there are a couple episodes with the Karemma that stood out to me.
She directly relates to this character Shaxs that I love on the Bridge.”
For Visitor, she never really felt like she retired the character.
“There have been questions about Kira.
“I’ve explored that question for myself; how she shifted me.
It’s really never left me.
Just simply stepping into her virtual uniform wasn’t really that much distance for me to travel.”
McMahan didn’t want to fundamentally change what fans remembered ofDeep Space Nineor who these characters were.
Visitor agrees Kira hasn’t changed.
She’s just in a different environment.
“I always thoughtDeep Space Nineshould be an opera.
I’m just putting it out there.
Someone has got to write an opera,” she says with a laugh.
“But that’s kind of my point.
If I was doing it onstage as an opera, the tonality of my performance would change.
Animation sits in a brighter tone than television does.”
Visitor dances around the question when asked if she’s been approached to reprise Kira in live-action form.
She’s usually the last to know.
“I trust these people and Alex Kurtzman to have their pulse on what people need to hear now.
And to me that’s the whole thing.
What do they need?
What do we need as people to contemplate in some safe way?
“It doesn’t necessarily speak to the characters and shows that we’re all currently telling.
I think it’s because you want it to be the right thing.
That’s their story to tell in a way.”
“I’m fascinated in that way,” she says.
“What I love is collaboration.
So if they said, ‘Hey, you wanna?’
I’d be like, ‘Hell, let’s play!'”
Star Trek: Lower Decksis currently streaming on Paramount+.
