10 Star Trek Episodes That Actors Regret

10. Profit And Lace - Armin Shimerman

Profit And Lace is the sixth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that sees Quark undergo gender reassignment surgery. Directed by Alexander Siddig, the story began life as a serious exploration of the son coming to understand his mother. However, during production on the episode, the producers pushed for a funnier tone.

The result is a badly presented parody of cross-dressing and gender dysphoria, which was antithetical to the initial pitch. Armin Shimerman expressed regret at the way the episode ended up, citing the heart attack scene in particular.

When they first filmed it, he and Cecily Adams, who played Ishka, did it straight. They fight, they cuss each other out and then Ishka collapses because of her heart. Quark then goes into panic mode. As presented in the episode, it is a sillier escalation that robs the scene of any tension. This scene is analogous to the episode as a whole. Shimerman regretted it, Alexander Siddig regretted it and Ira Stephen Behr would come to regard it as the episode that killed the chance for any future Ferengi-centric stories going forward.