From Chris Snellgrove
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Many Star Trek fans want deep inside that they have their own Galaxy edge … a way of entering the immersive world of their favorite heroes “Strange New Worlds” and Starfleet heroes. A legendary actor of Deep Space Nine pointed out that producers are more or less act Create one of the most brutal alien planets of the show here on Earth and suffer that the line -up suffered even more than their characters. The planet in question is “Cardassia IV” and after the filming of scenes for the second season of DS9 “The Homecoming” Kira Nerys actor Nana found visitors that the shooting location of the Soledad Canyon was the perfect Cardassia IV because it was like hell. “
The real Cardassia IV
In the Deep Space Nine Episode “The Homecoming”, Kira sets off to save a colleague from a notorious prison camp on Cardassia IV. The Cardassians are the equivalent of the Nazis. Between this and her reputation of being malignant prison attendants, the audience understood that Kira had cut her work with this unconventional rescue mission for her. In real life, shooting in Soledad Canyon meant that Nana visitors and other actors had to pay attention to practical threats such as snakes and bees, while they were dealing with the type of heat that would shy away from Bajor’s fire cavities.
Ironically, the heat was that last The producers were worried about the shooting of the Cardassia IV scenes. They were actually much more worried that the line -up and the crew got beetle bites, which is why they recommended to bring all the sea breeze (this eliminates the painful sting of a bite). But while the producers warned of insect bites, bee stings and snake bites, it was the heat that tortured both Nana visitors and chief -o’bria actors Colm Meaney.
As she remembers: “Colm and I were sick for our stomach.” This went beyond a kind of stomach defect … in the words of the visitor: “We were seriously wondering whether we got into the heat strength.” This made the shooting of the Cardassia IV scenes completely miserable, but the visitor had a sense of humor over the whole and later insisted that the Solodad Canyon was a perfect shooting location because it emulated the hellish nature of Cardassia itself.
During this Cardassia IV scenes for “The Homecoming”, the actors who hated the heat hoped never again Soledad Canyon. Unfortunately they didn’t have their wish Is As one of the most breathtaking places of the show), they once again turned scenes for season 4 episode “IndiscreaTion”, season 5 episodes “The Ship” and the 6 -season 6 -episode “Rocks and Shoals”.
The Soledad Canyon was used in these episodes to make other places than Cardassia IV. Unfortunately for the actors involved, the Soledad Canyon still retained the heat that made it the perfect place for a Cardassian prisoner camp (in-university, this one Aliens Really Love the heat). The fact that the heat in subsequent episodes was actually worse worsens than for “The Homecoming”, which makes it one of the most hellish places in Star Trek’s famous shooting history.
If you still want you could get into the world Star TrekThis story of Soledad Canyon’s conversion into Cardassia IV could otherwise convince you. It had the kind of extreme heat that Cardassians love and people absolutely hate. Let’s be honest … Who can enjoy a hot ractajino with a pipe when the temperatures rise?
