The item listed here comes from the estate of my mother-in-law after she passed away in early 2024. We’re going through the items that she collected while she worked in the entertainment industry. She started her career as a Page on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood, California in the mid-1990s. She then moved on to other companies in the entertainment industry in positions both on and off production. Over the years, she obtained an extensive collection of rare Hollywood items, especially from her favorite franchise “Star Trek”. Scripts, crew gifts, screen used props, prototypes for collectables, rare discoveries at the Archive Building and much, much more. It is a script from the show. “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”. You Are Cordially Invited… (FKA “Once Upon a Wedding”). From the writer’s offices of “Star Trek – Deep Space Nine” in the Hart building on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood. The script contains pages that are printed on specific color coded paper to signify that a re-write or alteration of something from the approved final draft occurred. The color of the page is dependent on when the new information was incorporated into the script. For more detail about this, please refer to the web site for. There are also hand written notes and post-its. On some pages to indicate items like. Line changes that the performer made while recording the scene. “Historical” notes if a specific date is referred to. Scenes that were moved into a different order not originally intended by the author, but by the editor or director. It is in excellent condition with some slight discoloration due to age as well as some MINOR creases from use and age. It has been stored in a plastic storage bag with a cardboard backing ever since the season was completed. This item is the real deal, not a copy of a copy of a copy like a lot of other auctions that you’ll run into. Always kept in a non-smokers house! Note that there is no page numbered 11 due the scenes that were originally written here being omitted in the final version that was filmed. NO stains or other damage! The script is 66 pages in length. 71 physical pages including title, Cast List, Sets and Pronunciation Guide. Written on September 5, 1997. First aired on November 10, 1997. Background information quoted from the Memory Alpha web site. The working title of this episode was “Once Upon a Wedding”. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion – A Series Guide and Script Library). Moore saw this as an episode which would allow him to correct an inaccurate impression of Klingon society which he himself had created. After Star Trek: The Next Generation, Moore felt that he had (unintentionally) shoved Klingon women into the background, promoting the view that they were unimportant to the proper functioning of society. This dates back to TNG fourth season episode “Redemption” in which it is revealed that women cannot sit on the Klingon High Council. In subsequent Klingon episodes, women had virtually no role, and the whole society ended up appearing to be completely male dominated, almost like Ferengi society. This was something Moore was keen to rectify in this episode, and as such, he determined that if men rule the Council, then women rule the Houses, and that the mistress of a great House wields unchallenged power in terms of the functioning of that house, thus restoring a degree of balance to Klingon gender roles. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. The script provides the following Klingon translations [1]. Dax to Sirella: Tuq son bosh mok A’Beh Sirella koh. E’Gagh vet moh – Enter my home and be welcome, Mistress Sirella. May you find it worthy. Sirella to Dax: Eck’taH roh masa qee’Plok – May this be the first of many visits. Dax to Sirella: Toruk-DOH! – [A particularly vile Klingon curse]. Sirella to Dax: Mok’Ta vor, kash a’VEH! – You are an enemy of my House! A question that does not seem to be addressed in this episode is where either the crew of the USS Enterprise or Worf’s foster family are during Worf’s wedding. The absence of the Enterprise crew would indeed be unusual considering the eight years Worf served with them and the personal connections they established. However, one possible explanation is that the Enterprise was too busy with a war-related task, and it may not have been safe enough for the Rozhenkos to travel to DS9 at such a volatile time. The wedding had also been abruptly rescheduled, giving potential guests only seven days notice. In reality, the producers had wanted the Enterprise crew to appear (albeit in non-speaking roles), but only LeVar Burton and Jonathan Frakes could be secured, mainly due to their having offices on the Paramount lot, and it was decided that it had to be all or nothing, so the plan was scrapped. Commander Data captained in “Redemption II”. However, this aspect was dropped from the teleplay for time reasons. The captain of the Sutherland is named as Captain Shelby. About this reference, Ronald D. Moore stated: My intent when I wrote the line was that this was indeed the same Shelby from BOBW. I thought it was a cool reference to throw in for the fans, but I had completely forgotten that John Ordover and Co. [of Pocket Books] had very specifically and very politely asked us if we had any intention of ever using this character again and we (including me) had said, No way – do what you want with her. Since I only used Shelby’s last name in the episode, you’re free to look at this either way – it’s really her or it’s someone else with the same last name (it’s a big fleet, after all). Moore has speculated that Dax may have slept with Lieutenant Atoa had Sirella not interrupted the party. (24th Century Wedding, DS9 Season 6 DVD special features). A scene in the script, but not in the final episode, involved the Starfleet members clearing out their quarters, which had been occupied by various members of the Dominion. Doctor Bashir’s quarters were occupied by Weyoun who was apparently fond of collecting various items and studying them in his quarters. The items included shoes, coasters, bits of string, broken bottles, power cells, picture frames, and chair legs. Nog’s quarters were in an even worse state and had been occupied by Jake Sisko. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion – A Series Guide and Script Library.