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Contents 1 CD release? 2 Incoming links 3 Alexander Siddig Citation 4 Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

[edit] CD release?

The text claims the Emissary CD was released between seasons one and two (which i would assume to be correct but I don't know). However, the date listed is 1999.

[edit] Incoming links

At least some appear to be for the space station not the series. I recommend an interested editor (not me) review and tidy incoming links. --kingboyk (talk) 17:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Siddig Citation

I see that there is a citation request for an explanation about why the actor who plays Julian Bashir changed his name. Here is a direct quote (copied from his official web site)

Here's Sid's explanation from an October 1995 appearance, shortly after the name change was announced: "Actually my name hasn't changed, just my stage name. One of the problems was that one of my old friends. . .didn't know how to say my second name (El Fadil). And of course he couldn't spell it. So we got to talking about what other names we might choose for me. And we rolled them off and we came up with some stupid names and some not so stupid names. In the end we decided we would definitely try to work out a way to try to change my name. My mother, before I was born, wanted to call me a European name and a Sudanese name. [Sid's mother is English, his father is Sudanese.] She wanted to call me Adrian or some such name, I'm not sure what it was, and so I came back to my mother and said 'well I think I'm going to change my name to what you probably wanted to do in the first place' - because she was put under a lot of pressure to call me Siddig El Fadil la la la la la. . . There was a point where I was going to call myself 'uh' because people would walk up to me in the street and say 'hey you're, uh...' That would just make it a lot easier for them. And I could just say 'yes I am!' Well the long and short of it was that, as much out of a sense of mischieviousness, I just changed my name...and I might do it again! I might do it again every year from now on and I'll be remembered as the person who changed their name."

Now, I would guess that the fact it is an official fan site, rather than the myriad of unofficial fan sites available, it is probably a valid source. Problem is that I am not much good at doing references, and the actual page address is not clear, as regardless of what page you are on at this site, the address always shows up as [[1]]. Anyway, if you want to look for the quote yourself, go to "About", then choose "SID FAQ". StephenBuxton (talk) 14:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 17:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)