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When Casey Bigg<\/strong>s was initially asked to play Damar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, he had no idea that a small role would blossom into four years worth of appearances on the show.<\/p>\n The role was initially supposed to be a one-time appearance. “I …said, “\u201cWhy are they asking me to come in here? They could get anyone to do this,'” said Biggs. “It was like one line, or something”.<\/p>\n “Little did I know they were looking for a foil for Dukat, for Marc Alaimo’s character,” said Biggs. “When I got on there they just liked what I was doing so much that they just kept writing more and more and more. I was on the show for four years, I think, and the role kept getting bigger and bigger. It was a wonderful character arc to play, to go from the bad guy’s lackey to the leader of the empire. That was pretty great.”<\/p>\n Biggs knew nothing about the Cardassians, but Marc Alaimo<\/strong> [Dukat] set him at ease. “I’d never done anything like it before,” said Biggs. “I had no idea who these Cardassians were. My first day I met Marc Alaimo, and thank God. He’s the quintessential Cardassian. He is Cardassian. He said, ‘Arrrggh, don\u2019t worry about it. I\u2019ll tell you what you need to know.'”<\/p>\n Like many actors, Biggs has favorite episodes. He especially likes the episode [Strange Bedfellows<\/em>] where he twice taunts Weyoun #8; once encouraging the Vorta to “talk to Worf again” (after Worf had snapped the neck of Weyoun #7 earlier in the episode) and once taunting Weyoun when Weyoun was dreading a meeting with the Female Founder after Worf and Ezri escaped from detention. “I liked the one where I kept killing off Weyoun,” he said. “I remember a wonderful scene where Weyoun comes into my office and starts griping at me, and I say, ‘You’d better be careful or I’ll be talking to Weyoun #9 pretty soon.’ I loved that kind of stuff.”<\/p>\n Biggs also liked Tacking into the Wind<\/em>. “That was also the episode where I found out that I had a family,” he said. “I had no idea that Damar even had a family until I read that script. Weyoun comes in and says, ‘Well, your wife and child were killed.’ I read that and said, ‘I had no idea that I had a wife and child.’ I might have played Damar a little differently if I had known that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Casey Biggs was initially asked to play Damar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663],"tags":[3148,4264],"class_list":["post-16324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","tag-biggs","tag-damar"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16330,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}