She was not fired… She wanted to be a recurring character. “To say that this woman was let go is absolutely ridiculous. She didn’t sign a contract for the seventh season, and her character was killed off.īerman also spoke to the authors of “The Fifty-Year Mission.” He told a very different story. You’re giving me a take-it-or-leave-it offer and I’m not okay with that.’ So, finally I did have a conversation with him and asked to cut down my number of episodes or just let me out.”įarrell never reached an agreement with the producers and the studios. Rick said I was hardballing him and I said ‘I’m not. In my opinion, he’s just very misogynistic… Basically he was trying to bully me into saying yes. “The problems with my leaving were with Rick Berman. However, that’s not what the producers and the studio had in mind.įarrell spoke out about her exit from DS9 in the book “ The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years.” She said that producer Rick Berman told her she had to come back as a main cast member for the seventh season or she’d be written off the show. She wanted to come back as a recurring character in the seventh season rather than a member of the main cast.

Farrell said that after six years of being in nearly every episode, she was “really tired” and that the schedule was very difficult.

As part of those negotiations, she asked to appear in fewer episodes. Farrell told in 2011 that her contract was set to expire at the end of the sixth season, so she started the process of renegotiating with the producers.

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