This is a very eventful episode -- a lot happens in 44 minutes. Was there anything that had to be cut?
Oh my God, you could assemble another episode from all the stuff we had to lose. At one point before we shot we had, like 90 special effects shots, a lot of it having to do with Gaeta’s leg. The original scuffle in the teaser was longer and involved more space porn. And, unfortunately, Romo Lampkin’s “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” scene had to be truncated. Almost all of Racetrack’s story is pretty much gone, as well as material on the base ship. But I’m, like, the worst about material being cut and I have to say I was really happy with the aired cut.