Star Trek: 10 Bloopers You Need To See

It is equally hard to find any Deep Space Nine bloopers. There’s the one where John de Lancie as Q asks Sisko to "ravish" him, to which Avery Brooks replies seductively, "I might". There’s another of Jonathan Frakes as Thomas Riker stumbling all over the set as he gets trapped by malfunctioning doors on the Defiant. And, when Brooks flubs a line, his infectious laughter is a better tonic than anything Doctor Bashir could prescribe.

There is one particular highlight in amongst the dearth – an outtake so good that you will wonder what you ever did without it. You’ve all seen the Odo farewell to Quark in What We Leave Behind; the scene is funny enough by itself. It appears, however, that the actors had a very different character arc in mind for all you shippers and slashers out there.

In the outtake, which was shown at convention panels for the documentary What We Left Behind in 2019, Odo gives his famous harumph, but then, to everyone’s surprise, he leans into Quark for a passionate kiss. Armin Shimerman and René Auberjonois play the moment to camp perfection. As Auberjonois walks off to the runabout, Shimerman and Nana Visitor (somehow) continue to act the scene as written, only adding to the hilarity. "That man loves me," Quark notes. Then, with the most telling of dramatic pauses, he concludes, "It was written all over his… his back".