When I was writing the story, the movie Schindler’s List had just come out, and Ira was saying, ‘Maybe he was Schindler, maybe was the guy who let the prisoners go.’ And then it was, 'Maybe he wasn’t; maybe he was the Butcher of Budapest.’ So we just kept telling all these lies, and I think the truth lies somewhere in there. Maybe he did let people go. Maybe he did shoot the ship down. Who knows? He wasn’t a gul; he wasn’t in the military. He was in the Obsidian Order, and his first name is Elim. Those things, I would say, are the truth.

Robert Hewitt Wolfe on writing “The Wire” - from Deep Space Nine: TrekCore