 Both Linda Park and executive producer Rick Berman saw " Exile " as a play on the " Beauty and the Beast " story . Filming began on August 20 , 2003 , overlapping with the final day of shooting for the previous episode , " Impulse " . Shooting ran through to August 29 , the final working day before the Labor Day weekend . As Linda Park was the only member of the main cast to be required for scenes on the final day of shooting , the remaining cast began work on the following episode , " The Shipment " . A number of sets were created for use in this episode , all of which were created to show Tarquin 's home . Although this was only referred to in the script as an " alien sanctuary " , the set designers created an aged gothic @-@ inspired alien castle across five sets . Set <unk> Jim Mees added to this design by filling the areas with further gothic artifacts and exotic flowers . 
