For the Uniform (episode)

===Story and script===
* This episode is a sequel to the [[DS9 Season 4|fourth season]] episode {{e|For the Cause}}, and the Michael Eddington/Maquis [[story arc]] would later be resolved in the episode {{e|Blaze of Glory}}.
* This episode was written by [[Peter Allan Fields]], who was a co-producer during [[DS9 Season 1|season 1]] and a producer during [[DS9 Season 2|season 2]] of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]''. Fields also wrote a number of episodes over the course of the first two seasons, but he was retired from the television business when he wrote this particular episode.
*In a deleted or unfilmed scene, O'Brien and Bashir discuss Eddington and their opinion of him. The scene also mentions that [[Starfleet Accounting]] gets bills from [[Quark]]. O'Brien also tells Bashir a story Eddington told him about a [[Orion slave girl]] and a [[Talorian]], a quadrupedal species. At the end of the scene, the pair realize they actually liked Eddington. As the scene was deleted, [[Alexander Siddig]] and [[Armin Shimerman]] [[DS9 main character non-appearances|do not appear in this episode]]. [[Cirroc Lofton]] also does not appear. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library]]'')
* This episode marks the first use (and mention) of the [[holo-communicator]]. The idea to use this device was [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s. According to Moore, "''That's something I had been pushing for because I just think it's so absurd that in the twenty-fourth century they have holodeck technology that allows them to recreate Ancient Rome, but everybody talks to each other on television monitors. It's just so lame. The viewscreens have been around for over thirty years. Can't we move to something a ''little'' more interesting? But it's like pulling teeth''." [[Ira Steven Behr]] was completely behind Moore's idea; "''Viewscreen scenes are always difficult to pull off. The longer they are, the more boring they are, and having a character talk to someone on a viewscreen is very distancing. And it did work in this episode. We never could have had Eddington on the viewscreen for all of his scenes. It would have been dramatic death''." Despite this however, the holo-communicator was not seen as successful in this episode, something alluded to by [[Gary Hutzel]], "''It was a terrible idea from the get-go. The idea was to create this amazing 3-D image, but TV's a 2-D medium, so it's hard to show that it's 3-D. So you have to move the camera around so that audience can see that it's 3-D, but then it could look to them like the guy beamed in. So you have to find a way to deal with that. It created all these problems that the writers hadn't thought about, and it missed the whole point of why [[Gene Roddenberry]] wanted a viewscreen: so you could avoid unnecessary expense''." The holo-communicator would be seen only once more, in Sisko's office on [[Deep Space 9]] in the episode {{e|Doctor Bashir, I Presume}}. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'')
* The scenes on the {{USS|Defiant|2370}} [[bridge]] showing the crew operating the ship manually and relaying communications through [[Nog]] were written as a homage to a similar scene in the [[1958]] {{w|Robert Wise}} movie {{wt|Run Silent, Run Deep (1958 film)|Run Silent, Run Deep}}. Ira Steven Behr commented: "''Great idea. I loved it. We wanted it to feel like a [[submarine]] movie, and we kept talking about ''Run Silent, Run Deep'', for those scenes''". (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'')
* This episode contains a subtle reference to the 1938 {{w|Michael Curtiz}} film {{wt|The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)|The Adventures of Robin Hood}} starring {{w|Errol Flynn}} and {{w|Olivia de Havilland}}. The scene where Eddington forces Sisko to look at the Maquis refugees is very reminiscent of the scene in the film where Flynn's Robin Hood takes de Havilland's Maid Marian to feed the starving peasants. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'')
* This episode also contains a brief nod to the 1947 movie {{wt|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty}} which is based on the 1939 short story of the same name. Dax remarks, "The secret life of Michael Eddington."  As is the case with Walter Mitty in the movie, Eddington sees himself as a dashing protagonist, the "hero of his own story" in the words of Sisko.