To stay on the Fox series "Dark Angel," Nana Visitor (Madame X/Renfro) said she virtually would've had to leave her children behind while she did shoots in Canada.

It was because of her requests to make it feasible to bring the rest of her family that the former "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress said she was killed off from the series.

"I know they were angry with me, because they perceived [that I was] trying to manipulate for a lot of money or something like that, when it was really just life," Visitor recently told Sci-Fi Wire. "It was just impossible. So they were a bit angry with me, and my demise may have been given a little short shrift.

A short shrift, maybe. Visitor's character was shot and then burned to death in the Season 2 premiere, "Designate This." However, things were supposed to be different -- Visitor said she was supposed to become a regular on the show. However, she wanted to find a way to where she could bring along her husband, former DS9 actor Alexander Siddig (Dr. Julian Bashir) and her two young songs.

"That's a big deal when you have two boys at school age," Visitor said. "Then they decided that they wanted to make the show's target audience younger and didn't want anyone over 40, really 35, in the cast. So they fired everyone that was older except John Savage. And they offered me the same deal that they did him, a recurring role.

"Well, financially, I couldn't keep up an apartment I own in New York and take two boys to Vancouver (where the series films). What they wanted me to do was commute. So what that would've meant was having someone else raise the boys while I went back and forrth for weeks at a time.

"I found out afterward that with the work schedule the way it was, I would have been in Vancouver, and my boys would have been [in New York] with a nanny on 9-11. So it was a heartbreaking decision and a financially difficult one to make. But I had to say no. At a certain point, you can't think about lifestyle. You have to think about having a life."

Visitor has since moved her act to the stage, currently performing on Broadway.