Beforehand, Wolfe had written the enjoyable (if overly fundamental) TNG episode “A Fistful of Datas.” This demonstrated his Trek expertise, however he wrote “Q-Much less” earlier than he was provided the full-time job on the brand new spinoff.
Whereas he didn’t go as far as to name his Q-centric journey the worst DS9 episode, Wolfe later stated he centered an excessive amount of on Q and never sufficient on the primary characters. He additionally criticized the notorious boxing scene the place Sisko bellows, “I’m not Picard,” noting that merely illustrating that the brand new character is totally different from the Enterprise captain doesn’t do sufficient to inform us who Sisko actually is.