How ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Crafted One of Its More Controversial Episodes

Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor look back on the pressures of 'In the Pale Moon Light,' which turned 25 this month.

The controversial and acclaimed hour “In The Pale Moonlight,” which turned 25 this month, finds Captain Benjamin Sisko struggling to justify the moral and ethical compromises he made to trick the Romulans into joining Starfleet in their war against the Changeling-led Dominion.

The stakes of the episode couldn’t be higher. And the only thing harder than the toll Sisko’s lies take on him was figuring out the structure for this outside-the-box episode, one that features Sisko seemingly breaking the fourth wall as he records a personal log directly into camera, recounting the chain of events that led this once self-respecting officer to find solace at the bottom of a bottle.

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