No offense to the great Patricia Tallman, the fantastic actor and stunt person largely known for her work on Babylon 5 as well as the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. The wide eyes just seemed an odd choice.
Also Patricia Tallman:
Not an extra, extras don’t have lines, they are just animate props whose photos were picked from a pile. This is a bit part played by a real actor who auditioned.
The cloak isn’t effective if they can read your minds. Making that face helps block the Vorlons from sensing them.
Fun fact: Patricia Tallman plays more characters in TNG era Trek than Jeffrey Combs.
My DS9 is rusty, but I think most people were expecting it to fail or go boom. So the portrayal here might have been meant as a “huh, we didn’t blow up” type of reaction.
This takes place before they confront the Klingons, so all systems are presumably nominal. Chalk it up to nerves, I guess.
She’s thinking of the Pegasus and tapping the console with crossed fingers.
