Conception
Zicree's original pitch for the episode featured Jake Sisko as the main character, and did not deal directly with racial issues. Zicree originally patterned the Bashir/Kira characters on Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, and the O'Brien character on Isaac Asimov.
Zicree's story was combined with ideas that story editor Robert Hewitt Wolfe had written for a script called 'Cold and Distant Stars', a very early draft for the Season Three two-part episode Past Tense, in which Wolfe suggested a story about Sisko as a contemporary homeless man who believes he is a star base captain, but who is diagnosed as schizophrenic and drugged to suppress his visions. At that time, producer Ira Behr had rejected the hallucinatory element in favour of a time-travel story.
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—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
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