That little moment was one of my favorites on the show. It’s really about two actors playing with each other and has little if anything to do with the show. Technically, it could be called “secondary action” in terms of the method… but in this case, it was merely Avery and I having some fun with the world around us. Surely, Martok had never seen a baseball before and may have correctly identified the covering of the ball as the hide of some kind of animal. For all he knew it could be Targ. But Martok was very curious about the markings on the ball and the way it was made, meanwhile they were discussing an attack on Cardassia or some such monumental topic, and distracted by a baseball. Sisko may have been afraid Martok might have thought it to be food and taken a bite out of it… or some such action. So, we toyed with each other a bit and that is what we ended up with. - J.G. Hertzler (Martok)
I’ve seen clips from the DS9 episode You Are Cordially Invited being posted recently which caused me to check the notes about it at Memory Alpha. One of them was about the scene above. Hertzler also had this to say about the Kal’Hyah scenes (he really is General Martok):
That was another hoot. There was like a five thousand degree fire going on, it was a hot day outside, we were standing next to this fire pretending not to feel it because we’re Klingons. Those other guys complained, those wimps, Colm and Sid, hanging from their little fingers over the fire, wimpy boys!
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