"We get the script very late, as Robbie can attest, and there are changes constantly being made," Roxann said. "One of the shows I did, I got my fourth act when we were already into four days of shooting. I didn't know the end of the story when we were shooting the beginning. I try to go in there with a strong idea of what this story is trying to say, and sometimes halfway through the writers go, 'no we're changing it now, it means something else.' But I do try to make sure that thematically something is coherent, so when we end up in the editing room we have a story."

McNeill agreed, citing his recent completion of the Doctor Phlox-centric episode "The Breach," which didn't have its conclusion decided until late in the shoot.

"John Billingsley had a big doctor storyline, and we didn't have the third or the fourth act when we started," McNeill explained. "[John] had a scene one day where he was supposed to kinda break down, but we hadn't seen the fourth act. It was all about some big secret that [Phlox] was going to reveal in the fourth act — and he said to me, what is this secret? And I didn't know, none of us knew. So we made the phone calls and they gave us some idea of what it was going to be. But literally sometimes you can start shooting the episode and you don't know what the secret is that you're hiding the whole episode."

Dawson also revealed that she will be helming the second-to-last episode of the season, which begins pre-production next week, and talked about how producer Rick Berman convinced her to voice the alien computer in her episode earlier this year, "Dead Stop." The report contains additional remarks from DS9 actors Marc Alaimo ('Dukat'), Casey Biggs ('Damar') and Jeffrey Combs ('Weyoun', 'Shran'). You can reach that report here.