AlsoPaisleyCat<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linh.social/@qlp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>qlp</span></a></span> </p><p>Roxann Dawson directed this episode. </p><p>While it wasn’t her first, as she’d directed for Voyager, it was the episode that made me realize she was at another level as a director.</p><p>The script was great, and Jeffery Combs wonderful as Shran, and the use of animatronics brilliant but under her direction it all came together to be one of the rare well-polished early episodes. She even managed to get a performance from Scott Bakula as Archer that didn’t grate on my nerves.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DirectedByWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectedByWomen</span></a></p>