10 Amazing Behind The Scenes Secrets Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

You could (and I mean, s**t, we probably should) do an entire list on the bizarre everyday items that would up as futuristic props on Star Trek, but the short version is that set designers are both incredibly resourceful and have wonderful senses of humour. Deep Space Nines medical instruments, for example, were largely comprised of off-the-shelf, light-up Star Trek toys.

But even more amusing than that concerns the origins and fate of Dr. Bashir's rather exotic display of alien medicines. The colourful pellets adoring the jars on his shelves are almost entirely just different candies bought wholesale and separated out by colour, with the vast majority just being humble M&Ms. Because why shell out for thousands of pieces of colourful set dressing when jumbo packs of chocolate drops are about $15 in most shops?

While this is a fun bit of background trivia it did create a number of continuity problems during filming, as actors hanging around the infirmary set would occasionally just dip into the jars for a sweet treat between their scenes. This let to a few instances of the jars moving between shots, so production was forced to simply glue them shut.