The Greatest Generation - He’s The Dick & The Rubber (DS9 S5E17)
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This episode was recorded well before we got the sad news of the death of Renee O'Berge
and Waw, who in addition to playing Constable Odo on Deep Space 9 had just an incredibly long and successful
acting career that included parts like Father Mokehi and Mash and Chef Lewis and the little mermaid
and Paul Lewisden on Boston Legal. He was really, really great and he will be missed. And I think you recorded something like this, not knowing exactly how to put how you feel
about somebody that we've spent this much time with, but didn't actually know personally.
The death of an actor can be hard to process because an actor's life's work lives on
well past the moment they're gone. And in the case of Renee Orbears and
Wab, we have several more seasons of Deep Space Nine in which to appreciate his great work.
And I'm glad that we do. So yeah, we're just thinking about, you know, everybody that
knew and loved him and feeling grateful that we've been able to enjoy his work over the years and we'll get to
continue enjoying his work. Among the family Renee leaves behind are his wife and children as well as
a whole lot of friends and fellow actors from through the years who are now sharing some really
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Renee O'Barrison, while was 79 years old.
He'll be missed.
Sorry to open the show on some bad news. And sorry, if we are the bearers of that news for you,
weirdly, this is a very odocentric episode that happened to come up today.
So if you're still feeling
sensitive, totally understood, and this is a very silly episode about Odo as well. So,
you know, do with that information what you will. We are sending love to his friends and
family and co-workers and...
uh...
on with the show, I suppose.
Here's to the primus crew in Starfleet.
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I'm Ben Harrison.
It's the first episode we are recording post Thanksgiving.
Ben, what are you thankful for?
Oh, man, I'm definitely thankful for this show and the friendship we've built amidst
it.
I mean, we're friends before, but I think it's...
And the ruins of this show, the friendship that we've built.
Yeah, I mean, I think the show has inevitably brought us closer.
Yeah, how could it not?
We're like two podcast hosts stuck in a turbo lift.
We've just got to see this thing through.
Choose a corner to be the toilet.
This may take some time. Let's not waste it.
I'm thankful for the people that make comments about the show online
that don't hurt my feelings
There's very few of those anymore band
You know you you suggested that we get like
Five star comments that are questions about the show and then answer those questions on the show
Yeah, that'd be a good thing to throw out to the friends of DeSoto
Maybe that's an episode we can record and release later on in December.
I'm wondering if we've already suggested it.
It seems like something we may have already set out loud.
Well, here's the thing.
If we have or we haven't, maybe it would be a good idea to restate or not, you and I had come up with a great idea of getting more iTunes ratings
because, you know, I think this is a show that could be in the 10,000 5 star rating atmosphere
and it's just not.
Yeah, no we're close to that.
How do we goose our viewers into more five star ratings?
And I think one of the best ways might be to give them something for it.
Like the answer to a question.
Right.
And here's the thing.
There seems to have been some sort of interface change on Apple podcasts.
And I don't see any way to sort these by recent, recent see. So this could be, this could be one of our
classic greatest gen plans that it, that is impossible before we
even launch it. Right. Right. So whether or not this works,
we're going to encourage you to go to Apple podcasts. And before you say it, I know not everyone listens to our show via Apple podcasts,
but it just so happens to be the easiest way for us to comb through whatever the system
is we're going to use for this Q&A.
Listen, I know you that out there have strong feelings about what podcast app you choose
to use.
And that's fine. You don't
need to tell us. Yeah, to each their own. To each their own. I'm an overcastman personally.
That's fine too. And bully to all of the people that click the little star in their overcast
app when they enjoy an episode of the greatest generation. That's great. So go over to Apple Podcast, leave a five star review.
That's crucial.
Slightly less crucial, but still almost as crucial,
is leave a nice comment and a question that we can answer on the show,
and we'll do our best to do that on an upcoming episode in December.
Maybe we'll have Rob put on like a radiation proof suit and have him sift through reviews and find
a couple that we can answer.
When it's tough to do, ask Rob.
That's the saying, on greatest, Jen.
Rob is more emotionally stable than either of us right now.
Yeah, what makes you say that, Ben?
Did you have a difficult Thanksgiving?
My Thanksgiving was fine.
Yeah. I'm actually, I'm enjoying a Coca-Cola right now because I, I, my fitness goals
I was, I was able to see through the Thanksgiving period and, and through to the other side.
So I'm rewarding myself a little cheat day.
Hey, that's nice.
Yeah.
I ended up frying a turkey for the first time.
Oh, right. And this was kind of,
this was kind of something that got sprung on you, right?
You didn't go into the day intending to fry a turkey.
Speaking of cheating,
I think the cheat code to turkey cookery on Thanksgiving is most
definitely the deep fry.
Yeah.
And I was on my way to a family gathering where I knew that turkey frying would occur.
Upon arrival, I was field promoted to turkey fryer.
You're the kind of person that I feel like everybody can feel a lot of confidence in if,
hey, if this turkey frying shit needs a captain, like we can field promote Adam to that role
and we are not going to be concerned about his competency.
Yeah, but I mean, here's the thing, like the expectation whiplash of, cool, we're not hosting
Thanksgiving this year. I'm going to go chill the most somewhere else and bring an awesome side. Yeah, suddenly
morphing into
Captain of Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's tough, especially when the especially when the edible takes hold.
Oh, yeah, did you have jazz gum complications?
So I mean, I had never done this before and crucially, did not read about how to do it properly.
Yeah.
I mean, what I knew was that you were talking about taking a marijuana edible.
Yeah.
The joke around the family at this event was boil the oil.
And oil's not a thing, the boils, that's the joke.
Yeah.
We got our oil up to too low a temperature clearly.
And I, here's the thing, when you're the captain
of Thanksgiving, you need to shut out all of the other voices.
Yeah.
And be the captain.
A ship cannot have more than one captain.
And this was my problem.
I put the turkey in before the oil was ready
and it resulted in a turkey that was not done.
Hence, the double fried turkey that we ended up having.
What's great about a double fried turkey
is that you let the turkey rest obviously
because I'm no dumb dumb.
You let it rest, you carve into it.
After taking its temperature and its temperature reading as done, we started the carve, it was
clear.
Those juices ran not clear.
So what we did is we took the legs and the wings and shoved them into the orifice and then
and then re lowered the turkey back into the oil.
Wow, you made a turduck in out of just turkey.
This is a image I think I sent you.
I'm not sure because it is a very fun picture of a Thanksgiving crime. So we lowered the monstrosity back into the oil and all of it's parts fried into each other.
So it was.
It was a fucking mess, dude.
This looks like something that would keep John Carpenter up at night.
Yeah, it's a real existence.
Looking...
Looking turkey.
It was a very cronin' burric Thanksgiving that we had.
Turkey tasted fine.
The skin, of course, tasted awesome because that's what you get when you fry poultry skin.
Sides were awesome because sides are awesome.
And I mean, here's the thing.
This is something that you and I know very, very well.
A late dinner, no matter how good the food, feels pretty unsatisfying when people are expecting
a dinner at X.
Right.
And you, and dinner hits the table at X plus 150%.
So.
Yeah. No, that's satisfying. the table at x plus 150%. So, yeah.
That's satisfying.
I had sort of a similar experience where I did 80% of the cooking for Thanksgiving
bird inclusive, and I also got a false pause on my breast.
I did the, you know, the probe into the breast and it read is that possible.
It read is done. Well, here's the thing. I got like one of those heirloom breed birds.
And it just had really deep breast meat. Like I was putting it in what I thought
like deep enough, but not so deep that I was gonna be touching cartilage on the other side.
And-
No, so deep to put her ass to sleep, if you would.
Right, yeah, this bird had an LA face,
but an Oakland booty.
And I just didn't, I didn't get anywhere close
to the center of the meat when I took its temp.
So I was like, oh man, like I'm like,
I'm like seven to
10 degrees over right now. That's the thing out of the oven. Yeah. And then when I, you
know, I rested it for 15 or 20 minutes and went to carve it. And like you said, I discovered,
I discovered I had a medium rare bird. Yeah. It's deeply disappointing in that moment. This is why when Christmas comes around,
I only cook a fine fat goose.
Oh yeah, that goose doesn't give you that problem.
You can serve goose medium rare, huh?
It's not a problem.
You can serve goose medium rare.
It's like duck.
Oh, that sounds pretty good.
It's all dark meat.
That's a beautiful thing about goose.
It's a, you can cook it as long as you want.
It's gonna be good.
Or you could like cut off the breasts and sear them and leave the inside raw. And that would be pretty good.
Lord, love a duck. So do I. Wow. Well, lesson learned for next year, I guess. A long enough
amount of time for us to forget how this Thanksgiving went. Yeah. People are going to be sick and
tired of Thanksgiving talk by the time this comes out.
Yeah.
Well, onto the next one.
That's what the advanced 30 seconds button is for.
Yeah.
Up until they hear the music that tells them that we are about to talk about.
Deep Space Nine, Season Five, Episode 17.
It's a simple investigation. What? Do plan and this favor are not
simple at all. No. Far from it. No, and that's a big surprise. Yeah. Every time. Here's the thing
about the 90s and specifically the late 90s. I don't believe you can costume a person with a garment over their heads without Corn Holyo vibes.
Right? Yeah. Yeah. We get a Corn Holyo lofster. He's like asking Siri what time it is.
Computer time. I'm sorry. I can't help you with that. And sliding secret items into his sleeves,
but this man obviously needs to teepee for his bunghole.
My bunghole will ask the questions.
You know what an alt to this alien might be,
is that maybe it's not just a garment,
like a head scarf or whatever,
maybe this alien just has great big traps.
Mm, he's like, what's that X-Men guy?
I don't know.
What's he called?
There's an X-Men guy that's always like running
through walls and stuff.
Everybody's called.
This guy is doing those shoulder shrugs big time,
build up the traps.
What did you got to do?
That's what I learned from someone who came through
the line in Austin, a group of gym charmotors with the GYM spelling.
Some guy came through and he had tremendous traps.
I couldn't help but come in.
Yeah, I did have great big traps.
And he's like, hey man, all you got to do is do those shrugs.
And I was like, I'm doing the shrugs.
I'm not getting the traps.
That guy was a trap king.
You know what it got me to do the very next time I went to the gym?
I went up a lot of weight on those shrugs.
Really?
I'm gonna get traps thick.
That's what my goal is.
Jesus.
I'm not gonna turn into a cornholeio though.
I don't want that.
Those traps be too big.
What are people gonna think of us when we go on stage?
And I have my regular old dad bod,
and you're all trapped out.
Well, people are gonna think we're trying
to just work out our issues
in our own specific and personal ways.
I guess so, yeah.
This is a fun instance of what do you do with the carpet after you phase vaporize a guy in their quarters.
We see this all the time in Star Trek. Someone gets a phaser set to gore shot at them.
Juggernaut, that's who I'm trying to think of.
Juggernaut will flatten you.
That's right, it is Juggernaut.
That guy's got big traps. He's got a hat that just goes out.
He's got an up to single on his hat.
Yeah.
You need that kind of hat if you got traps.
His traps connect above his ears.
Now.
That's how big they are.
Those are two developed.
You don't want to fully develop your traps to that extent.
The guys got muscles where like Arnold Schwarzenegger would look at him and be like,
ugh, gross.
Anyway, shout out to all of our friends in the Jim Shimoda subgenre, working those traps,
but not too much.
Tastable traps.
Tastably trapped that.
This guy answers the doorbell and a couple of aliens who look like they may be of the
same planet, but maybe a different ethnic subgroup
as that guy that Saul Rubeneck is friends with
in that episode where data is one of all the toys.
Lulululu.
Is the gun one of them has the giveaway for that?
I don't know, that gun.
Seems like that kind of gun.
It's a prototype for a baron tea disruptor.
He thought it was set to stone,
but it was set to carpet cinch.
Yeah.
And like a kid whose parents have left for a vacation
and then they've like had a party they need to clean up after,
they are like, what do we do about this carpet stain?
What do we do now?
I thought it would've been fun if they'd gone into his shower
and discovered a bottle of conditioner and gone,
what is this?
I don't think I get that. Because they have such dry, frizzled hair.
All right.
They got a condition, Adam.
All right.
All right.
I'm back.
I'm back.
They got to use that conditioner, especially if you're going to be in an episode like this.
Yeah, and these guys, these guys are in a fair amount of it.
Yeah.
So this cuts to a scene where Bashir walks up to some friends of his in the bar.
It's Dax, O'Brien, and Odo, and Bashir whips it out.
It.
Oh.
There's a honey stick of a hollow program program and he starts casting all the parts in this
hollow program. They're all generally pretty excited about playing characters in Bashir's
Jack fantasy. All of them, but Odo who is decidedly distracted today. It's a real wet hot American summer type vibe. Like why does Odo get so uncomfortable
when we talk about Hollisweat stuff?
Ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, why does Odo get so uncomfortable
when Bashir walks up with a container full of yellow liquid?
Might be another question.
Is that one of my people or is that more piss?
Oh, it's just a honey stick, I see, I see. It's very confusing.
Yeah.
He's an excellent investigator.
This may be the deep, deep future, but it's encouraging to see how excited people
remain about new video game day, right?
Yeah.
Like a very bespoke sounding video game, right?
Like Bashir has a personal relationship with its right? Yeah. Like a very bespoke sounding video game, right? Like Bashir has a personal
relationship with its creator.
Yeah.
He said it's the most elaborate
program he's ever designed.
Be like, if you knew the person
that made jazz horse and we're
like, this is a lot like the old
jazz horse, but it's way bigger.
You would think that quirk
would have a problem with this,
right? Like I would assume that
he would want you to rent the
video games from him and not bring your own. Is there a honey stick corkage fee at corks?
Yep, that's what I think. I really think so, and it's a scene that get cut.
Yeah, that would have been nice. I mean, cork, it's a little tiny bit to do in this episode.
It's trying to voice some food or drink on a lady that's sitting at the bar, which
I think is a very reasonable request on his part. As the proprietor of a restaurant and
bar, you know, every, every seat needs to be generating revenue. This lady's just
sitting there free loading. I recently went to a, like, I know you're
gonna hate this,
but like a little sandwich shop coffee bar place.
No place to sit, because every seat was occupied
by a laptop or some shit like that.
Yeah.
I left.
But places have policies against laptops.
I didn't order anything, because there was no place
for me to sit, it made me very sad.
Quark knows better.
Like everybody knows I have like much harsher rules
for myself about this than the rest of society does.
But I won't even look for a seat
until I've ordered something at a coffee shop
because I think it's unjust to occupy a seat
before you're a customer.
I actually totally agree with that.
It's one of the few areas of your self-flagulation
that I can get with.
It's like the categorical imperative applied to coffee shops,
but it works for me.
I mean, it doesn't work.
It's just how I choose to live my joyless existence.
The lady at the bar that Quark is giving shit to is named Arissa.
We'll find out later.
And there is some flirtation confusion between she and Odo.
In that she thinks he is flirting with her and he is tripping over himself to prove that
he's not. He could be forgiven for being drawn to this woman
and she could be forgiven for assuming
every man walking up to her as one thing on his mind.
Right.
She says something very funny in describing him.
And that is she describes him as having bedroom eyes.
Yeah.
If anyone I had ever slept with had bedroom eyes that look like this,
I'd be getting dressed pretty fast and getting the hell out of Dodge.
I remember distinctly the first time I ever heard that phrase was my student film
as directing in college and the lead actress was had to make out with a ninja.
So it was kind of like a simulated make out because the guy had a mask on.
And it just kind of like I needed to like I needed to get to a point where I both like we
believed that she would actually she was actually actually, like, into this ninja.
And she said, oh, I could just do bedroom-wise before we
kiss.
And I was like, oh, was that look like?
And she did it at me.
What?
And I was like, whoa, my god.
Yeah, that'll work.
I always sort of assumed that bedroom-wise was either a thing
you had or did not, not a power.
To her, it was a facial expression she could put on.
It was one of the tools in her acting Swiss Army knife, and it was very effective.
See, to me, not a lot about that movie worked, but that scene did.
To me, Bedroom Eyes is just that thing where you wake up and you have a pillowcase crease.
Crash your face.
Like a big scar.
Go to Cartoon.
The Cartoon.
Go to Cartoon.
So, Adam, this lady is played by Day Young, who people will remember from the TNG episode
Masterpiece Society.
I used to go on the night and night and I'm going on.
Delicious.
Yeah, who could forget?
She's the scientist that got to go on the entrepreneur and leave her
genetically planned community.
You know, it's interesting how some faces can be unfamiliar
just by virtue of a different hairstyle.
And if you look at pictures of both characters side by side, they look like very different
people, but some faces, you need love to obscure, to make an actor look different.
And the actor who plays this character is very chameleon-like in that way. You know, all it takes is a haircut for her.
Yeah. She looks very different. Her headshot on IMDB, she has red hair and couldn't look more
different. I mean, it's a more contemporary picture and she's still working from what I can tell.
But yeah, it just doesn't look the same at all.
So, Odo is distracted enough to walk into a wall on his way back to the office.
And then we pull back to reveal in the wide shot the two traps aliens from the very first scene giving their interaction bar room eyes
into show theme song.
They're gonna kill her.
Yeah, it doesn't look good.
It does not look good for Arissa.
In the cargo hold after the theme song,
it's Odo and Kira inspecting some items.
And this is some Gok trivia here.
Gok is transported live, obviously,
because it's gotta be consumed that way,
but I thought for sure, I thought for sure it would be frozen for transport and then thought.
Oh, yeah, put it in carbonife. That should be safe.
Not the case. It's live and we know this because a tentacle is reached out and grabbed
Kira.
Is it a tentacle or is it one of the gocks?
A tentacle, grab my hand.
Gocks? She's holding her hand out like, oh, I got tentacled. Is it a tentacle or is it one of the gags? A tentacle, grab my hand. Gag.
She's holding her hand out like, oh, I got tentacled.
Is are all those gags connected in a bowl of gag?
If gag is strong enough to lift the lid on its container, is it also smart like a cephalopod?
Like could it escape and leave?
Oh, alright, I know cephalopod they're smart, and leave? Oh, I, all right.
I know several of Pods are smart,
but don't try and gach shame me.
It's delicious, okay?
Yum, yum, yum.
And then, and then like,
from a food handler's permit perspective,
like, is it okay that the gach touched
just a random person on its way to your plate?
That probably makes it more exciting for most going on, right?
Yeah, you probably want it, touching a lot of people.
You probably don't want to wash your hands before eating gach.
You know, the late great Anthony Bourdain famously wrote that there's risk involved in good eating,
you know, and specifically, he related this to oysters, which, you know, can occasionally make you sick.
And you're amazing.
And I believe that the Klingons have built an entire cuisine around that premise.
This scene with Kira is a representation of everyone's feelings about Odo, which is if there's
an opportunity for him to not be alone, he should take it. And so Kira is very encouraging about Odo, which is if there's an opportunity for him to not be alone,
he should take it.
So Kira is very encouraging of Odo seeing this mystery woman again.
Yeah.
I was really glad that they didn't write her as the woman that puts male colleague in the
friend zone, but then also doesn't want him to date anyone else.
Right.
Yeah. also doesn't want him to date anyone else. Right, yeah. Like, I think that that's been a storyline on a lot of TV
in a, anyway, that's unfortunate.
And, and I like that she was really encouraging of him,
you know?
Right.
I know you're using that term pejoratively too.
Like that's like the friend zone isn't real also.
Yeah, right.
I'm referring to people writing.
Yeah, it's a shorthand for what we understand this to be on television shows, for sure.
Yeah. So given this little push of encouragement,
Odo heads back to his office and is delighted to find that Arissa has been arrested.
Yeah. She's been arrested.
Rissa has been arrested.
Yeah. She's been arrested.
Right?
I guess, I guess she has.
I guess you have to put it that way.
She's arrested for breaking into a computer
and that's a thing that you can't do on Deep Space 9
but it's made easier because she's got a poor internet
because she's a cyberpunk.
She keeps scratching at this.
She's got like a, like a data port,
a venereal disease or something,
because Odo has designed the data interfaces
on the station to cause itchiness,
redness, and other forms of irritation
to people that might attempt to penetrate
his computer firewalls.
Or do you know better than to trust a strange computer?
You can't just hot swap into the DS9 computers with your neck nobid.
Yeah, you gotta pack a vest for your neck in the city of sex.
She's been waiting for someone named Tavid Ram.
This is a person she describes as helping her find her daughter, a person that she
gave up 15 years prior. So we begin on kind of a sob story for Arissa. Yeah. And the, you know,
the, the data port is something that Odo looks on with great skepticism. Like why, like that,
that's basically gray market equipment. It should be illegal.
Why would you get it if you weren't doing bad stuff?
And the other part of this ob story is that she grew up on Fanea Prime
and she is an inherently untrusting person and a person who, you know,
has some, some real tough breaks in her past.
I mean, this is like straight out of the film,
noir, femme, fatale, playbook, right?
Like, she goes seem like a pretty fatal femme.
Yeah.
And she's got her mark here too,
because Odo strangely eats this up.
He's ready to believe her.
Everything she says, even though she's committed to crime. In case you'd forgotten, I'm facing charges
for trying to break into your computer.
All it takes is her bedroom eyes to evoke this feeling from him.
Speaking of film noir, it really struck me how straight this episode is shot.
And I wondered if there was any temptation to make it more stylistic
in the way of a noir because it really does. I mean, it's a Star Trek is a place episode that
uses all the tropes of film noir to tell a story. Yeah. But they don't use the tropes of film noir
to light it or unpack the action. I am happy about that choice. I think it makes it a little bit more subtle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, Odo takes it upon himself to protect Arissa.
He starts by taking her to her new quarters, which is a fun bit of business because as soon
as the doors close behind them, he has them transported to his own quarters,
which in any other context would be hella creepy.
Yeah. I mean, I think that there are a few times in this episode where
Odo's behavior verges into the creepy. Yeah.
The idea is that she is in protective custody because the guy she was there to get this information from has been
vaporized right but she's also in trouble for breaking into the dead guys locker and finding this chip. I've been following you. I didn't know that's I think that's about when the
explanation about the fact that she doesn't in fact have a
daughter at all, and her real reason for being there is on behalf of the Orion syndicate.
And this is a criminal organization that she would like to leave very badly, but the
Orion syndicate doesn't take kindly to defectors.
There's no leaving the O's Indicate when you're in your in for life.
She drops this name, this guy named Dreme, as she works for, or is trying to get herself out of working for.
Yeah, and she doesn't want to be flushed down the Drain.
She admits to you living the life of a kind of a hacker type.
She hacks with her body, hacking for money.
Yeah.
She does what Drain wants her to do.
And this protective custody is a way for
Odo to make sure that she's safe. It's be think like Odo could protect her in a lot of ways without
just keeping her in those quarters, right? Yeah. You could like put her on a run about.
We've seen a couple of shots at the station where there's like a
about, we've seen a couple of shots of the station where there's like a Voyager class starship
in orbit around it.
Like that seems like a pretty safe place
to keep somebody away from the Orion Syndicate.
Hey, Wharf, would you mind if one other person
stayed on the little D with you?
She could even stay on the other side of the ship.
Yeah, I'm not gonna make much noise.
They do turn up this data crystal that it's just a Macuffin.
It's like, what is this information?
We're going to have to decode it and find out.
And that's part of why the protective custody is just
buying some time while this data crystal, which
is very heavily encrypted, is worked over by Dax and O'Brien.
This relationship between Arissa and Drain was pretty toxic because while she started
out as a cam girl, Drain ended up being one of her biggest clients.
And this is a kind of camgurling that made them very close.
And then, a dream started using her contacts against them.
Like, he would take her contacts and manipulate steel from and kill those people.
Pretty dangerous person this dream.
Mm-hmm.
And I feel like they do a good job of every time her story changes.
You never feel like she was the bad actor in those stories.
God, that is such magic here because that happens.
I feel like three or four times fairly early on in the episode and you should give up on
her if you were, but you just never do.
You're like, this lady that works for this criminal syndicate
Seems like a bad person. No, no and not only that but like Odo should look fucking dumb
For trusting her and he doesn't look dumb. Yeah, he or at least as dumb as he should He's obsessed with her and he's pretty thirsty too like you keep threatening to have me stripped down an
Examined I'm trying not to read too much into that.
He starts talking about like I will quit my job and protect you personally so that you
can testify against Drem. And she's like, wow, that's like kind of an absurd offer.
If it how dangerous that would be. And that's sort of when it comes out that this is something that Odo sees as an
opportunity for doing some penance for those moments when he was collaborating with the cardassians
where he kind of looked the other way on some pretty severe injustices. She's super blown away by his offer and he's like Look, I I live forever. So it's actually not that big of a sacrifice
I've been told I can get my old job back no matter how long it takes to work back to this point
Actually oversaw the execution of three innocent people and still kept my job
Now that's job security.
I'm really not concerned about it.
I can't state that emphatically enough.
Anyways, I've got to go ask perhaps the most unlikely character on the show for some dating advice.
Bye bye.
Right. He basically leaves a conversation with her, it goes directly to the hollow sweets.
And this is a great scene because she isn't a moving car.
And Odo is outside of this moving car.
What we don't see or hear is Odo fling stoning his legs outside the limo.
You don't know how bad I wanted to re-edit this scene with just that pattering of foot sound
effect outside the car.
Yeah.
It's great.
There's a, there's a Nicholson Baker novel called The Firmada where this character gets
the super power of being able to snap his fingers on freeze time and he mostly uses it
to like write erotic novels and leave them in women's
purses, but as you would.
Yeah, he's definitely not using it to fight crime or do anything good, but there's one
moment where he freezes time while he's on the highway and he looks down and the road
is like still blurry and he's like debating whether he's going to like kill himself if
he steps on it.
Oh, I wondered that.
Like in the hola suite, like, is it just giving you the impression that your car is and he's debating whether he's going to kill himself if he steps on it. Oh wow. And I wondered that.
In the hollow suite, is it just giving you the impression that your car is moving,
or is that actually moving holograms past your car and under it?
What's the thing that's moving?
Yeah.
It's a good question.
But Odo gets in the car, and this is a very season five technology
asking Bashir for dating advice. Like he is the last person that you would go to in any other season of this show, but
I think makes it credible person for Odo to be addressing these questions too.
Should Dr. Bashir be genetically able to seduce better than most people?
Hmm.
He can like emit those pheromones that they sell in the back of CD magazines.
I mean, either that or if he's been genetically edited to be better than a normal person
wouldn't, wouldn't one of the betterments be in seduction?
His dad is like talking to the doctor and he's like, what about if he had a great big
crank? Free testicles.
I just like really nice looking, like beautiful, not lumpy in any way.
Bishir gives one of the great short but powerful monologues that his character ever gives.
He makes the case against regret as a concept.
He's like, do the thing that's hard because trying and failing is better than not trying
and regretting it.
And it's great advice.
It's great advice for anyone.
We choose to go to the moon and disdicate and do the other things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard.
It's the right advice and said well, you know,
like there, you know, it's basically no risk, no reward,
but also you don't want to look back at all the opportunities
that you didn't put yourself forward for.
The end of this scene,
a eye patched O'Brien peaks his head through the window
with a pistol and it's great. What's great about the scene as O'Brien, Pixas head through the window with a pistol, and it's great.
What's great about the scene as O'Brien
does not break character.
Ever.
This isn't fair.
Odo and I were talking.
Didn't anyone ever tell you,
you shouldn't stop for hitchhikers.
He's the one that was sort of reluctant
about being the bad guy too.
And he's like, if you're gonna make me be the bad guy,
I'm gonna be the bad guy full time.
So he is.
He wants to enjoy himself.
Yeah.
Odo goes back to his quarters and finds that Arissa
is still awake.
And he could become a bed probably
if she was uncomfortable with the mattress that he had.
Yeah.
How firm would you like it?
And that could go for the mattress or the penis I create.
Why even have a bed if you're me?
I mean, really, I've thought about this.
I mean, it's a guest bed, but I could be the guest bed,
and therefore, wouldn't that just be preferable to anybody
because I can customize it?
The sculpture in the middle of my room is actually a fold out
Get a lot of this I could be anywhere from 250 to
7,000 thread count up to you
The thing about a fold out bed is that it's not a great sculpture and also not a great bed. It's the worst of both worlds.
They get down, Adam. God, you just know that Odo can fill her up, right?
And she says first, how is it that Odo can't make a plausibly human face
but makes totally realistic nipples?
What comes out of Odo when he nuts?
Probably a lot.
I probably a lot. He asked her like, did I do okay?
I think for your first time, it's worth getting it on the table that it's your first time
before you start.
I think a changeling should have total confidence.
He could basically make a vaginal cast inside of her.
Like, there is nothing good though.
I don't know.
Does he even have to thrust or can his dong
like mechanically work it out
without him needing to do that?
He can just turn himself into a Sibian.
God, he really could, couldn't he?
Changelings have to be the best lovers in the universe.
This made me wonder, like, she says he was like,
he was good at it.
It makes me wonder, like, has he practiced in the hollow suite?
I wonder if they ever toyed with the idea of her being
just fucking blown away by his sexual prowess.
Like, totally worked out.
Like, woohoo!
Holy shit!
Like, Odo, I do not believe you because, whew!
Mama wrecked.
I read a fun bit of trivia about the scene, which is that Renee Avershanva shaved his body for the scene.
Yeah, I believe it.
Dolphin shape.
Speaking of Jim Shimoda, looking pretty toned in the scene, good for him.
Yeah, it does look good.
Do you think that they put, like, foundation makeup on his body?
Oh, that's a good question.
To, like, smooth it out? Yeah, you know what, and I bet you could get away, that's a good question. To like smooth it out.
Yeah, you know what, and I bet you could get away with that
in a pretty great way because of his face, right?
Yeah.
When this thing about being a changeling
is no refractory period, right?
Does he come?
Like does he experience sexual release?
They should have had him do this when he was human.
Like when he had a human body.
Yeah.
Too many unanswered questions like this.
The reverie he's in is very believable, right?
Like he seems to have enjoyed this almost as greatly
as he enjoyed the golden handshake.
He's got bedroom eyes and pillow talk to go with.
Too bad I'm not a change lane.
Oh, we should let that stop us.
Back at ops, Kira and Dax are gossiping.
They know what's going on, and so does everyone else.
Yeah, Wurf is pissed that he knows what's going on.
Do you think, do you think everyone on the station
knows because they heard it.
He let it go after so long, he was so pent up.
O'Brien's like, oh, I'll be working on the plumbing for weeks after that.
You're not supposed to throw the rubber in the toilet, Odu.
He could self rubber. He's the dick, Odo. He could self-rubber.
He's the dick and the rubber. But if he self-rubbers,
doesn't he just still touching her?
Technically.
You know what, Eve?
He can have safe sex,
but he can also have it both ways,
because he feels everything.
Yeah, yeah, he doesn't,
he can't lean on the argument
that it doesn't feel as intimate.
She's like, I'm gonna need you to use protection
and he's like, I'm allergic to latex.
That's a good thing for me.
Boop.
I'm using lambskin now, which is also me.
And she's like, that's kind of gross.
I don't really want that in there.
Do you prefer foreskin or cut?
Or we could try it both ways and he could let me know. Going forward.
Wow. Everything's on the table. Yeah. He's a great lover. Cause she seems pretty happy too.
And that's, that's that's
important. Length, girth or both. Kira and Dax are gossiping but not about his
sexual prowess just that hey good for Odo. Yeah finally getting some and this
sort of gossip is without honor to war. And besides Odo is quite capable of taking care of himself.
Sisko likes it. That's nice.
I didn't like that look for Cisco.
This is not a post gossip future.
The gossip is not scarce.
Now, that's another running theme through the episode.
Like the fact that information is getting back to Odo
through other people, like, you know,
Kira heard it from O'Brien, who heard it from Beshear, who heard it from Dax, who heard it from Odo, you know, Kira heard it from O'Brien, who heard it from Bishir,
who heard it from Dax, who heard it from Odo, you know,
like all of these, like Odo's businesses in these streets.
This is small town deep space nine.
And you know, like playing the telephone game
that the story is just getting crazier and crazier.
Like, did you hear Odo's crank is like four feet long?
He actually strangled her with it.
He's got a giant blue Dr. Manhattan tongue.
Did you hear he has nipples?
What the fuck?
There's a little dot on the exterior circle of his ariola,
just like Dr. Manhattan.
He's got like a whole Dr. Manhattan thing.
We ain't fucking trouble.
A Rissa goes to give him a little bit of a pinky
and she's like, there's nothing here.
Pfft.
I'd like to have candy if you want.
She's like, whoa, wait you big.
Wait.
Wait you big.
I'm not gonna put my whole fist up there, Odo.
I'm lightly kinky.
Odo is like shrunken bottle,
rake his eyes.
Whoa, ha, ha, ha.
What's happening in the ops is that Odo's late,
and that never happens.
He finally shows up for this meeting with Cisco,
and that's the time.
Better him than Arissa, am I right?
Oh!
Cisco and that's the time. Better him than Arissa. Am I right? Oh!
This gives Arissa just enough time to jack back into the computer again.
Yeah, jacks into the mainframe. Yeah.
Transmit some code and we cut to the cargo hold where the two assassin guys are
hanging out and they say,
The woman asked to make a deal
She gives us the crystal dreamlet to go. There seems to be sort of a smart alien and a dumb alien so we don't have to kill her
Don't be stupid. It really is a
Georgian Lennie situation with them, huh? Yeah, these
interstitial scenes with these two just serve to remind us that
Arissa is in danger. I think I think they carry a crucial weight like because without them
Arissa would just be jacking into computers and jacking Odo right and they do feel dangerous because they
they don't seem competent per se but they
Have done a murder and are still at large on the station, you know, and they don't
present as being fearful of anything or anyone. Right. So it's at about this moment that another
Corn Holyo comes to Odo's office.
This is an operative in the
This is an operative in the addanian government.
He runs Arissa as a spy and he explains
that the memory chip is in fact the
the catcher of the the backup of her
of her mind because she was altered
to the look human and then sent to
infiltrate the Orion syndicate without
her memories because
one of the things that Drain does is he has telepaths like troll people's memories to
make sure that they aren't spies trying to infiltrate his syndicate. It's real clever.
It's super clever, but everyone I know is a big
but this is the worst possible outcome for an embedded spy, right? Like
you must keep the spy with her mind erased away from the chip that has
her mind in it, right? Yeah. Why is she getting so close? She is
they don't explain that is my point.
I guess I'm not quite clear on why she became interested
in getting this crystal.
Yeah.
The Idenians really should never have let
the crystal out of their sight.
No, no, it's bad crystal method on their part.
Oh, man.
So with this explanation being made, uh, Odo is like, well, shit, we better get
that, that data chip back. Uh, but when they get to the science lab, they find O'Brien's
been KO'd because I guess in the science lab, you aren't allowed to have a pistol to defend
yourself like you do in the hall of sweep. Well, there is a risk gone too.
There is a risk doing those roundhouse kicks, you know.
Yeah.
More and more.
More and more.
More and more.
More and more.
More and more.
We cut to the cargo bay and it's a RISA and the two Finneons having an interaction
in there.
I mean, RISA initially believes that the deal is
going to go off without a hitch and she will be safe, but it's the Lenny alien
on the scene that puts her life in danger.
Tell me again what kill is George!
Right. She doesn't see him there. He has hiding behind a crate.
And here's the thing. When you do blackjack dealer hands to prove that that you're not
Carrying
There is no version of that that
That shows you aren't carrying a second person with a gun with you
This is like exactly like the dr. Bersier. I presume where there's just no
consideration given to the fact that there are other
places in the room that you can't see. The risk is a terrible spy, but she would have been killed
dozens of times, but she doesn't think she's a spy. Yeah, yeah, this is this is part of the muddiness
to her character, I think. Yeah.
So, she's got the chip.
She's just about to hand it over when Odo,
who has concealed himself as like a crate up on the second level,
goes gold, and they together knock these two guys out.
They're gonna hurt you until you're dead.
That's what kill is.
What?
Why did you tell me it was sleeping
and then having pancakes?
And then the day is saved.
Kind of a slap-dash fist fight though.
Like it does not seem like a foregone conclusion
that they're gonna win when this gets going.
It feels very A-team to me.
Like the doors open, they're like, whoo!
Yeah.
He jumps off the tap rope.
It's over very quickly.
And then it's a close-up of the chip going into her neck
under the supervision of Dr. Bischier,
who is basically reinstalling her memories.
It's got to be weird for Dr. Bishir to add memories
to a person instead of taking them away, right?
Well, you know, like, Odo is trying to seek some penance
for bad actions in his past,
and maybe Bishir is as well.
Much like a vasectomy, I was told that lobotomy was irreversible.
Ha ha ha ha. Bishir mentions that this is just the first step
in the process, like he's got to wheel her into surgery.
And at this moment I was like surgery for what,
are they going to take out the port?
But no, they reload her.
They'd reload her back up.
Because she's a trap salient.
Yeah, she's given her own hood
and she comes back to say her farewells to Odo and explains
that she's actually a married woman.
Yeah, this...
She comes back to basically scorch the earth.
Like Odo doesn't need this.
I don't know what...
Like she's definitely not there to provide comfort.
And she's, I guess, there to provide closure. What I'm trying
to ask is, why is she here? Like, what is her motivation to do this?
Yes. She says that thing about like that, like, that was a real person. And she really
loved you. And still does in a way. And I wondered which of those two things she was referring
to. Right. Like, is she saying that that person is still to some extent a part of her
personality? Or is she saying that as a trap salient, she loves him a little bit, but
not as much as her husband? Do you think part of the surgery that Bashir did on her was putting her totally wrecked vage back together?
Jesus.
Bashir is like, you know, I was only expecting to work on the loaf, but I do have extra
loaf.
And by the looks of things, yeee.
You had a little bit too much fun.
Yeah, like post-surgery, Arissa,
and that's not her name clearly.
She's never gonna forget Odo.
Yeah.
In a number of ways.
She's gonna be taking that with her wherever she goes.
Yeah.
But yeah, this does seem like I seen
that is optimized to be the most hurtful to Odo.
Every time Arissa takes a strained free poop, she'll know. that is optimized to be the most hurtful to Odo.
Every time Arissa takes a strain-free poop, she'll know.
That's the Odo effect.
I heard it from the front and I heard it from the back.
But when you're Odo, you hit it from the front and the back at the same time.
To the window, to the walls,
to the gold drips down my balls.
When the person who was a Rissa leaves,
she leaves Odo to be alone,
while the single flute of being forever alone plays.
And that's it, we fade to black and then credits.
That's our ep.
That is the ep.
Pretty sad. Did you like the
ep? Where has this odo been the whole time? The odo that is cool and confident and professional
around a woman he likes. I was thinking a lot about it, and I think the difference is that
a rissa flirt and kira doesn't, right? Hmm. I can think of a lot of moments in my life,
in my romantic and sexual history,
where it really helped when the other person hit the ballback,
when it didn't feel like you were lifting
the entire weight of flirtation.
And I think that makes a difference.
So, Eryssa plays the game,
and it makes it easier for Odo to get in there.
And play as well.
Well, when she's interested in a way that Kira does Odo to get in there. And play as well. Well, I mean, she's interested in a way
that Kira does not appear to be.
So. Yeah.
I think Arissa's a great femme fatale,
and she runs that game from that femme fatale playbook
in a way that is fun.
Like, she picks out the perfect mark,
and she does all of that looking away
while talking that a femme fatale does.
Like, I did not laugh at her.
I laughed with her in all those scenes.
Like the turn away manipulation that is just so unbranded.
Yeah, it's like, it's like simultaneously
a heavy episode and a light episode.
Right.
And I, like, that is a tricky thing to pull off
where it's like, I didn't feel like the episode
was asking a ton of me emotionally,
but I felt what the characters were going through and I enjoyed the adventure of it, you know?
Yeah, especially because a genre app can feel really hack and cheesy. And I think, you know,
getting back to your observation earlier, I think not shooting it
in a noir way helped it not feel that way. Right. It didn't, it didn't, uh,
pot up the cheese in the way that Star Trek occasionally can when, when they're doing an
emphatically genre episode. Yeah, it's crazy to say that about an episode where you see Odo's nipples that they didn't that they that there were limits that they chose not to
Not to experience, but yeah, yeah fun
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My drunk Samota is Odo, and it's for when the guy that is her handler that shows up the spy handler,
and explains what her job was and that she's been a deep-cover secret agent for two years.
Odo is like, but that's so dangerous!
Like, he gets pissed off that a spy had a dangerous job.
And I just feel like Oh, no, knows that spies do dangerous shit.
Yeah, he knows better.
He does dangerous shit.
He's not even a spy.
You want to know real danger?
Try having sex for the first time.
Try participating in a hollow sweet video with Julian Bashir.
You're going to be ducking all kinds of fluids, flying all over the place.
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Quark accepts a position working for an arms dealer.
I mean Quark has always sort of worked for arms dealers, right?
Yeah.
This is just making it official.
I guess.
Well, our little runabout is on square 52 and two squares ahead is a quarks bar.
A couple squares after that is a looking at each other during. So, oh man. Those are the stakes of the roll.
You're required to learn as you play roll. And here we go with that. Tula! Did I win?
Well, what I have rolled has landed us on square 55, which is the meat between a sandwich
between a quarks bar episode and a looking at each other during. So, face to face to the
left of us, a Joker to the right. Here we are stuck on Square 55
in a regular old episode bin.
Wow, a regular one.
How about that?
I'm looking forward to reg app.
Yeah, you mean both.
Just as I'm looking forward to signing off
with another classic segment of us reading our own credits.
The viewers out there may be surprised to learn that we've never read the credits to the show.
We just make them up on the fly.
Yeah, we try to remember the parts of it.
Sometimes we forget a part. Sometimes we forget to thank somebody that we couldn't have done this without.
Yeah, we're doing our best.
Doing our best to thank first and foremost all of the friends of DeSoto who go to MaximumFund.org Slash Donate.
How about this idea?
As a holiday present to a loved one, get him a membership.
And MaximumFund.org slash Donate so they can listen to all the bonus episodes and stuff.
Yeah, what you'd be giving them is a box full of bonus episodes.
So many bonus episodes.
Probably in the hundreds network- wide, but just for the
Uxbridge, Shimoda, family of shows, probably near a dozen at this point, right? Oh, more than a dozen,
several dozen maybe. Dozens. Yeah, maybe two dozen. It's possible north of 20 bonus episodes at
this point. Yeah, that's value right there. That's value for your $5 contribution every month.
Come on.
Yeah, that's the gift that keeps on giving.
It's true.
We also really got to thank Adam Ragusia, who made our custom theme music.
Of course, he based it on the music of dark materia, which is our original theme music.
And then Adam Ragusia went on and became a celebrated YouTube cooking celebrity.
And you can check out his cooking videos on YouTube. You just search Adam Ruggusia.
I celebrate him every time I make a chicken par.
And he's a good thing to do.
You season the cutting board, Ben.
That's what you do.
And you cook it in wine every time. Every time. We
got to thank our buddy Bill Tilly who makes trading cards, collectible trading
cards that you can collect by following him on Twitter at Bill Tilly 1973 or
going to his Tumblr. I think he's getting them up on the Facebook occasionally
these days. Bill Tilly is really the wine that we cook this show in, right?
Yeah. Speaking of social media, join the Jim Shimoto group, join the regular greatest
Jen Facebook group, join the Reddit. Join all the things. They're cool people.
Did you say Jim Shimoto with a G? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Double shout out.
Double shout out to Jim Shimoto.
Oh my waitlifting Jim Shimoto's out there working on those traps.
With that, we'll be back at you next time with another great episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9.
And an episode of the greatest generation, which is moving on from Traps Day,
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