Within the “Star Trek: Deep House 9” episode “Defiant,” O’Neil returned as a Cardassian character named Korinas, a member of the Obsidian Order. The Obsidian Order is actually the Cardassian CIA, however one that almost all often spies by itself folks. In “Defiant,” the rogue Starfleet officer Thomas Riker (Jonathan Frakes) steals the usS. Defiant — DS9’s specialised warship — on behalf of a separatist faction referred to as the Maquis. When the Cardassian Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) pursues Riker right into a seemingly uninhabited area of Cardassian House, he’s confronted by his observer, Korinas, who tells him to not proceed. One thing fishy is happening.
O’Neil recollects the tone on the “Deep House 9” set to be very completely different from that of “Subsequent Technology,” and that, once more, her make-up was confining. She ended up channeling the bodily rigidity of her make-up and costume into character traits, saying:
“It was a darker set, a extra closed-in feeling, although I believe which will have had one thing to do with the make-up. My make-up was confining. I would additionally achieved a make-up position for ‘Babylon 5,’ however the Cardassian make-up was tough. It was arduous respiration. You felt trapped within the confines of the costume, too. It was inflexible. The character had an undercurrent of falsehood, by some means, and as an actor that makes you tense and apprehensive and withdrawn in some methods.”
O’Neil, knowledgeable who labored constantly from 1970 till her retirement in 2001, knew how to consider characters, saying:
“[F]or me, so much will depend on the inner issues which are occurring with a personality. That impacts how you’re feeling if you take a look at your self within the mirror. How the make-up makes you seem impacts the way you consider a personality. It is all a pondering course of.”