The Greatest Generation - Let Go and Let Horse (DS9 S3E16)

Episode Date: December 10, 2018

When a mysterious stranger gives Quark blue oomox (bluemox? bloomox?), the ne’erdowell bartender is forced to room with Rom. But when the Nagus makes Maihar’du cry, Quark will risk everything to get Zek addicted to snuff again. Are we ever going to stop hearing about these stem bolts? Do Star Trek’s various giant, silent valet characters ever hang out? What’s the best board game to play with the desiccated remains of Ferengi? It’s the episode where we find out that the Prophets are just like us. Come see us live on tour with Greatest Gen Khan🎉🎉🎉! Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Prophets! Support the production of The Greatest Generation.

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I'm Adam Pryanaka. I'm embarrassed. Me too. Haha. Sometimes we chat a little bit before we heat up the mics about what we might do with our Marin. This is not one of those times. No, no, we'll just do it live.

Yeah, fuck it. I mean, that's a whole square on our game of buttholes, but today, it doesn't mean what it means on that board. It just means... It's never felt more real. You're gonna find something to talk about. There must be something. You ready for the holidays, Ben?

Oh yeah, the holidays are very, very proximate to this episode. How is your Thanksgiving? What is this? This is a December 15th? I've got a December 10th. December 10th episode. So I guess Hanukkah will have just ended. And Christmas is just around the corner. A lot of big days. Quanza just around the quarter as well.

I hope by this point in our release schedule we've gotten a holiday episode into the donor feed. Yeah, that would be good, right? Yeah, I mean, holidays stressful time for many people. Our selves included. Yeah, we add extra episodes for ourselves to edit during the holidays. Yeah. I guess that's my job this year, since you did the yeoman's duty of editing our, our Gremlins episode last year. That was fun.

That was fun. You're going to watch Grem's this year for the holidays? Is that gonna be part of your tradition now? I might see if wifey is up for it, I'm not sure. I did see what your wife thinks of Mr. Federman. You know, every time we talk about something I might do with my wife, you know, we're recording this about a month ahead of schedule.

I just wonder, will she still be hanging around with a bozo like me that far in the future? Who knows? It's our questions, Ben. Yeah. Do you want to talk about what we had in mind for our holiday episode?

Or do we want that to just be a fun surprise for the people? Ben, I don't remember what we had in mind for our holiday episode. We were talking about doing heat. Oh, yeah. Because a lot of people don't realize that heat is a Christmas movie. It's way more of a holiday movie than diehard. That is so tired.

You know what's tired? Diehard is a Christmas movie. You know what's wired? It is a Christmas movie. You know what's wired? It's a Christmas movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, man. Oh, I just, I just had a beautiful mental image of a young Adam Pranika receiving his monthly wired magazine subscription in the mail and being gleeful. I got to read about the future of genetic engineering or virtual reality or something. Yeah. Yeah, just kicking back, reading my wired magazine. Putting it up on the shelf with all the other checkerboard

spine wired magazines. Yeah, you can't throw those out. Gotta keep them and then move from place to place with them. They're extremely collectible and extremely heavy. That's a proportion I can get behind. And it's got a great technology section. That's gotta be why people are sending us their action figures.

They are not collectible because they are not heavy. That was attempting to straighten my office up a little bit before we sat down to record today. And I have just a embarrassment of Star Trek figures that I've received in the mail at this point. It's pretty great, right? Yeah, so here's the thing. I'm not playing with the Star Trek figures.

Hey, that's your camera, Ben. That one. Oh, sorry. Oh, it's the one with the red light on. Okay, here's the thing. I'm not playing with the Star Trek figures. It's not the point in my life that I'm at. I'm very busy.

Honestly, if I want to have a little bit of recreational downtime, I'm playing jazz horse. I'm not playing with Star Trek figures. Something has happened in my life that I think is a thought technology that I hope works for you, Ben. Which is I've made the case that my wife can get some reading done while I play jazz horse. Oh! As a nice way to unwind at the end of a busy day. The nice thing about jazz horse is that it's a pretty like

inoffensive sonic experience. Like it's a lot of just like writing a horse around and a guitar track plays while you do it. Yeah. I mean, at its best, that's what the game is. Sometimes a gunfight breaks out, but that is fortunately like fairly few and far between. I'm usually avoiding gunfights these days.

Yeah. Yeah. I love letting the sonic landscape of Jazz Horse wash over me. I'll see if I can pitch my wife on it. I doubt it. I honestly doubt it. You know what's happening to me in Jazz Horse? And I think what we're going to do here is probably turn our mirror and open into a jazz horse update

Is that like I find that my real life is bleeding into jazz horse in such a way that like I find my feelings are hurt when I go into a town And no one wants me there. Yeah, I don't like that feeling at all No, I'm just here to pet your dog and like study your cattle Yeah, I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I just want to hold pet your dog and like study your cattle. Yeah. I'm not trying to hurt anyone. I just want to hold R1 while looking at a horse. Yeah. Let me tell you something.

Some people are very hostile to that idea. I want to spend 25 minutes picking out different materials for a varmant rifle. Where're gonna get the raw materials for that, Ben. I don't know. It's the pain of my fucking existence. Ever since I was seven. I spent a good 40 minutes just carving X's into the tips of my bullets. Whoa, I didn't even know you could carve

X's into the tips of your bullets. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to do some crafting. You're doing any crafting? Oh, man. I haven't even done it into the crafting element of Jazz Horse. You take a knee band, you start doing some crafting. You can make explosive ammunition out of bare fat and bullets.

Now mind you, I've done all the crafting and I've never actually fired an explosive bullet at anyone or anything. So who knows how that's gonna work? Well, you'd rather have it and then eat it than you don't have it, right? I spent about two hours playing low-limit blackjack in jazz or so a while ago. Like a game in the video game world that it's impossible to get either rich or poor in. Just like, what am I doing? I'm such a degenerate. I had the cock I had optimism when I sat down to that blackjack table.

Oh, maybe I'll enjoy gambling if it's virtual. And I played like two hands and I was like, no, I don't even enjoy this kind of gambling. Oh, yeah, that's what's weird, right? Like, you can't just become the character. You take yourself and you put him into that character. Yeah. You can't change for Jazz Horse.

Jazz Horse is my new reality, you know You know what I'm also figuring out is that I can't fully relax playing jazz horse Like I've noticed that like I feel a great amount of tension while I'm playing it. That's not what that's for No, you gotta you gotta let that go and ride the prairie You gotta let go and let horse If you don't ding that, I'm quitting the show. That's some of my favorite show titles ever. Alright, I guess my hands are tied much like a character in jazz horse. Yeah.

Wow. Well, interesting characters, a plenty of jazz horsemen. Why don't you see if they also populate the episode for today? It's season three, episode 16 of Deep Space Nine. Prophet Mota. AHHHHH! AHHHHH! No, of course you don't. An episode directed by Renee Abbersianwa! Ha ha ha ha! Abbersianwa!

Ha ha ha! Could you tell? He makes a big statement opening this episode on Quark's O face. Ah ha! Ah! Am I doing it right? Quark is busting nuts and making money moves at the beginning of this episode.

He's getting his earlobes fondled by a lovely young lady who is interested in buying some self-stealing stem bolts from him. Oh, the self-stealing stem bolts, Adam. Kind of feel like Quark's stem bolt is gonna self-seal. A lot of her, she starts fondling those ears. Is this the same stem bolts? Are they different ones?

Do they keep coming into supplies of self-sealing stem bolts? I think it's the very same cache of stem bolts. Huh. Didn't Nog own them though? Yeah. Did Nog trick Quark into buying them from him? I mean I wouldn't put it past Nog. I wouldn't put it past us to forget the conclusion to that story. Fair. Very fair. Well this lady is a whole new type of loaf. She's got like feathers in her hair and Rage down her entire face and she's pretty sweet on quirk and and wants to wants to get this deal finalized and He's like hey, not so fast like we. Like, we'll sign the documents or whatever,

but why don't you finish off this ear snog you're giving me? Like, she's smart enough to realize that Umox can get you whatever you want from a Furengi, but she's not smart enough to know that you gotta finish him off. Right. Otherwise, Quark is gonna hold it over your head. And you got to low-bed him a little bit. Extract some concessions and the negotiation

while limiting the amount of contact your fingers are making with the ears. Yeah. Well, there's a little bit of Umak's interruptus here because Ram enters and immediately kills the mood as he often does. Professional cooler, Ram, has some fairly urgent news about a visitor and Quark is like in the process of brushing him off when we hear a thunk and it is the scepter of Grand Naga Sec who is put on a hood that covers his face entirely, but you know that scepter is unmistakable. Just going to ask you directly a question that I think is on the minds of a lot of our viewers

Ben. Is Grand Naga Sec the Luxonet Troy of Deep Space Nine. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha entry is always a slide whistle in a way that betrays the fact that the writers and directors know that this is bad. Yeah. I mean, Renee Aberginois is no slouch in the actor reputation department. Yeah. And this is his first, this is his directorial debut on the show. He would go on to direct seven more episodes. But kind of a heavy lift to direct the great Walla Sean. Like you got legacy actor,

directing legacy actor here, kind of an exciting combination. And Walla Sean, I mean, such a diva, right? Yeah. Noted ass, Walla Sean. I mean, his reputation precedes him. He is a real hard guy to work with and not a voncular in the slightest. Yeah. You better tighten it up when he's on set. We come back from our title sequence and Dr. Bashir is dicking around in his lab doing some, it looks like he's maybe doing some science on the remains of a pharynge. He's got like a hockey puck that he's got under some sort of sensor apparatus.

Yeah, if there's a puck involved, you must suspect pharynge. Good call. apparatus. Yeah, if there's a puck involved, you must suspect Ferengi. Yeah. If there, there's a puck, the Ferengi must be a muck. In the words of the great Johnny Cochran, if there's a puck, Ferengi are a muck. Boy, just got our show sucks lately. Yeah. Greatest gin used to be good. Yeah, now they just make the most bargain basement jokes they can possibly think of. It's very embarrassing.

Yeah. I mean, they used to be embarrassing that they were Star Trek broadcasters. Now it's embarrassing that they're bad broadcasters. Dr. Bishir being notified that he is nominated for a Kerington award. Yeah he comes down to the conference room. What's this? It's a bit of a surprise party. They're like pouring them a glass of champagne and he's like, what is this brown champagne?

And with Dr. Bershier's attitude, you think the award was called the I don't care,rington. In your face science community. Just edit that out. Not gonna do it. But she feels awkward because- If I edit that out, then people will think that you're funnier than me. If I let that in, they'll know that you're just as bad as I am.

That's fair. I'm in good company. The problem with any lifetime achievement award ban is that it's usually given to an old, thus awarding someone's lifetime of achievements. And Bisher feels weird about this because he's a younger guy. Like if if you went to Lifetime Achievement Award now, what does he have to look forward to? Yeah, I really didn't dig the way the staff pulled this shit on him. No.

I have made it clear several times to my wife that a surprise party is an unwelcome type of party in my existence. I've never had a surprise party sprung on me. Have you had one sprung on you and it wasn't fun? No, I've just, I've imagined my mind state. Here's the comparison at him. I always say that surprise free barbecue. That camera up in. Okay, this camera. Yeah, surprise free barbecue is the worst possible thing in the entire world. Because if I'm going to go get some barbecue, I want to know

well ahead of time. I'm like I'm going to cross--strain, I'm gonna do things to prepare my body and soul for the thing I'm about to do. You're gonna empty the chamber. If I show up somewhere and they're like, surprise, there's free barbecue. You don't even have to pay for it. The likelihood that I've eaten a peanut butter sandwich right before getting there is like more than a hundred percent somehow. You know? Your hostility to a surprise party

is like, oddly and unnecessarily specific, like, like, you're assuming that any surprise party thrown for you will involve barbecue? No, no, no, I'm just saying that a surprise party like free surprise barbecue is, it seems like it would be good, but it's bad. Yeah, like what if you had a surprise earlier in the day? Right. You're just living a life of surprises, babe. I don't want surprises, that's what I'm saying. I wanna have like advance warning

about all social interactions or food things so that I can prepare myself for them. And that's what sucks about this. Like, but she here is getting the double negative of a surprise party and everybody knew about this accolade before he did. And he has had no time to formulate a response to this. I don't know, Ben. I think I think I would enjoy barbecue twice in one day.

Give me all that barbecue. Hey, there's a pretty good barbecue place that opened up down the street for me. We should go there next time you're in Los Angeles. Do they do a beef rib? I don't know if I've recovered from our Austin beef rib. But, you know, if I'm getting a rib, I'm getting a pork rib nine times out of nine, unless I'm in Texas.

So, I'm just a single pork rib. Well, I'm getting a rack, because that's, I mean, that's the nice thing about a pork rib is you can have a lot of them. Yeah. So, I don't actually know the answer to that question. You know what I think a rack of pork rib is is kind of a quagmire amount of ribs Yeah Which is why you wouldn't want to have receive an entire rack of pork ribs for free by surprise

Hmm All right, I'm coming around to your way of thinking now. This is the point I'm trying to make. Having a bunch of friends get together to celebrate you is a good thing unless you're unprepared for it. So, but she kind of storms out. He's like, I gotta get back to work. Like, you guys. Why would we at any point in our lives be expecting our friends to celebrate us.

This is like the main problem with your hypothesis. I know I neither expect it nor want it and I've taken measures to prevent it happening by surprise. You've taken prophylactic measures. Yes. All right. If you need them, I've got crazy prophylactic measures. Yes. All right. If you need them, I've got crazy prophylactics. So yeah, DAX is like, hey, Julian, what is up your butt?

Like this is a big deal. Like you got nominated for this big prize. And he explains the thing about how like the lady that, one of the other people that's nominated this year, get nominated three years ago when she was a tender 103 years old. People said it was premature. Uh, tender and grisly at age. You're gonna wanna go low and slow on that one. Yeah, yeah.

There's a lot of college in the uni to break down. And there's no way to do that at a high heat. Go to college, go to college. So fun episodes so far, Ben. Yeah, that's good. But I mean, I like that the idea is that Bashir is a fucking genius. You know, like he was... We often forget that, don't we? Yeah.

He made it to the short list in spite of the fact that he's young dumb and full of calm. Yeah. Like his origin story is about slumming it on deep space 9 doing Western medicine. Like I rarely consider the idea that he is probably the most qualified person on the entire station. Did you say Western medicine, but mean frontier medicine? Yeah. Oh man. I love that. Should I retake it? I wish I'd never heard my dad go off on a rant about the greed that underlies the frontier

medicine industry. It's all herbs and elixirs. Yeah, that's how you heal things. Zach has taken up shop in Quarks' quarters, which is a difficult couple of words to say back to back. Quarks, yeah, a lot of like drive time radio DJs prepare themselves to go on the air by saying quirk's quarters five times fast. It's a situation that's necessitated him to room with Ram. And Ram's place is a fucking dump, Ben.

Yeah, quirk is like, you know, coming home after a hard day's work, he replicates himself a fucked up margarita and he's walking around the quarters, just, you know, like there's plates of food on the floor, there's garments, shrewd everywhere. And Quark does- Do you think they serve a fucked up margarita at drunk tomatoes? Fuckin' ay. I bet they do, but that's the specialty of the house. And uh... You can get that western style, Bill.

Oh, yeah? That's great. I mean, if there's a frontier style, I would love that, but I'll take western style if that's the only option. It's got a... Got a prickly pair on a toothpick... On the rim. Heh heh.

Speaking of prickly things, Rob comes in drilling out the inside of his ear with some kind of apparatus. Cork lays into him about how filthy the quarters are. And they have a bit of a tip that results in cork realizing that almost everything in Rob's apartment is shit that Rob stole from Cork's business. Yeah, this is fun.

If you work in retail, there's this thing known as shrink, right? And shrink is a term that's used for things that walk off the sales floor. Yeah, if you work in my underpants, there's also a thing known as shrink. Well, I just got back from swimming in the pool. Ben, I understand why they don't go this far in the scene,

but I so wanted the physical comedy moment of Ram taking the drill out of his ear and then flinging earwax, like, all around the room from the still spinning drill bit. That would have been great. I know. What are you doing, Renee? Messy comedy, though, on television.

That's not a combination that makes us well. Here's a challenge to the Friends of Disotto. I know that you guys hit the conventions a lot. And Renee O'Brissanois is no stranger to those conventions. Renee O'Brissanois is no stranger to those conventions. I want video of somebody getting up to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question.

I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. I'll be able to ask you a question. your wax file over the place. And I want video of it. Like I want one friend of DeSoto asking the question

and another friend of DeSoto holding the camera and I want to get his response. I want to know what he thinks about this. I want to give this person an out. If it, look, if you're a friend of DeSoto and you feel uncomfortable asking a question like this, I would recommend you say you don't have a question and it's more of a comment.

And you could say something like, I think you should have had Ram withdraw the the ear bit and drill apparatus from his ear and fling earbogers all over the room. And then you just sit down, having given your comment. Yeah. That might be the way to do it. I mean, choose whatever path you're comfortable with is what I would say. Yeah, fair.

Well, they come to the inescapable conclusion that it's unacceptable that the leader of the entire Ferenke alliance is borrowing one of their apartments and not just getting his own fucking apartment. So kind of slumming it, huh? Yeah, like, and this has been, this has come up before, right? Like, Vegas, Zach has tried to crash with them before. It doesn't make sense. Like, there's got to be 4,000 free condo units on the station, especially because he's rolling with

that giant valet. Yeah. Get your own place, Zach. Get your own fucking place, prick. Well, they storm across the hallway and, uh, Quart kind of loses his nerve right at the end and make Ram ring the doorbell. Don't worry. If you need me, I'll be close by. And, uh, out come Zach, he's in the highest of spirits. Ram! What can I do for you, my boy?

And Invite Ramen and Quirk invites himself in along with them. We'd be delighted. Quirk, I knew you'd be lurking around here someplace! He's so blank. Zach is just delighted to announce that that he's working on the thing he'll be remembered for, which is the complete clearing out of Quirks quarters. Yeah, as life's work is throwing all of Quirks furniture into the garbage heap. It was getting in the way of his work. That is his giant valley guy. I wonder if Zech's wordless giant valley

and Loaxonetroy's wordless giant valley ever get together and talk to each other? Oh yeah, I'm sure they have a lot in common. Do you think that thanks for the drinks is like the main thing they say to each other? Do you think ginger, Jesus' dick valet had that person survived a phaser blast set to gore? Would also be a welcome participant in that conversation? I don't know, just uh... You guys think you have it tough. I carry around that guy's dick.

I mean, if you're looking at dick, I can't imagine he'd have much need for dick valley, right? Oh man. Zick. Or maybe he's, maybe he's packing and we just don't know it. Zick might have a crank on him. I mean, he definitely has that big, forhanging energy. Yeah, he really does.

He's very excited about his new book. It's a very strangely shaped book, but he hands it to Quark and they open it up and discover that it contains the revised rules of acquisition by Grand Negasek. They start reading it and they just don't ring true to Quark and Rom. These new rules of acquisition. Yeah, it's a really fun, like, all right, well let's give it a try. true to Quark and Ram, these new rules of acquisition. Yeah, it's a really fun, like, all right, well, let's give it a try. I wanted to try reading the first one and they read the first one. And it is deeply disappointing.

And so we get our rare giant person's tears to commercial. Yeah, then at one point during the scene, Zach grabs Quark's ear. And it's, it's a little bit like pinching a cheek, but based on the opening shot of this episode, it made me think it might also be a bit like a dick tap, like, hey, read my book, buddy. Like a cup check. Yeah, yeah. All of these rules are sentimental and kind. And kind of like holiday appropriate, wouldn't you say?

Yeah, they're like the LLBN rules of acquisition, you know? Always accept a return no matter how trashed the product is. Like if you go to a restaurant that serves fortune cookies, there are legit fortune cookies that are clearly like good, the good kind and then they're the kind that are meant for families. Right. This is that kind. Yeah, and they're very family-friendly.

Money can never replace dignity, family over profit, all that stuff. Interestingly enough, gender roles not referred to in any of these revised rules. And I thought that was interesting, right? Like, I guess the rules of acquisition aren't necessarily focused on how the culture treats itself with respect to gender. And instead are purely focused on like profit motive. But like a woman's role in forangi culture

is a part of that. And it would have been interesting to have had even a throwaway rule of acquisition that was like, you know, treat your spouse like a special person, like an equal. Yeah, I think there's like a couple of other indications that Zeck has not really moved on that issue in this episode.

So, yeah. So kind of a weird omission. To be quite honest about it, I was in a pale, I was fucking a kind of a weird omission Quark thinks that this is some sort of code like they're being tested by Jack like in a way in the way that powerful people acting crazy often have their underlings like explaining away the crazy for them Right in a way to make them seem like oh, they're just on a different level that you can possibly understand Yeah, that video wasn't doctored. It was just sped up Right quark is is explaining the insanity of Firingy leadership as well

It's got to be a code that they need to crack. And so their plan is to lay back in the cut and wait for the truth to reveal itself to them. Yeah. And Ram is like fully on the side of like Zekka's fucking lost his marbles. But for like no man, he's playing steps ahead of all of us. He's a chess master and we're just playing checkers, man. And the checkers pieces are dead for Rangie. King me. In Quark's bar, Zeck is like doing the thing where he's buying beers for everyone.

Yeah. It's ruining the the pre credits cold open scene where Quark was trying to sell those stem bolts, like he is a wrecking crew. Yeah. On the station right now. He's also like turning down snuff. He's, he's, he's, uh, clean his act of W slash R slash T drug use. Yeah, it's cruel to the Beatles. It might be fun for you and me, but it's no fun for the Beatles. You know what else has cruel to the Beatles, Ben?

All these stereo re-issues at their music. I would say that that's the only thing making the Beatles listenable. Hmm. I mean, this is not an episode of Roderick on the line. This is an episode of the Greatest Generation. We're not gonna sit here and talk about the fucking Beatles for half an hour. Yeah. Ben, have you ever bought a round for a bar? I've bought a round for my buds. I've never bought a round for the entire room.

It works as a big bar, like... I know. That's it. But when I see Zach do this and Zach's an idiot in this episode, I kind of want the feeling of having done that. Ben, you've been to my local bar before. I feel like this is something that I could, like, that wouldn't totally blow up my wallet. Right. Because there's only at any given time,

maybe eight people there. Yeah, and like, eight rain years. Yeah. It's not gonna break the bank. Kinda want that feeling. It's right at some time. It's weird because it seems doucheier, the bigger the spend is. Like if you walk into a fancy bar that's full of people and do that, it seems creepier

and doucheier than if you did it in a divey bar that doesn't have that many people in it and there's just like a couple of people playing pool and one or two people having a drink by the bar and one or two people at the tables. Yeah, and my problem is I would never want the credit. Like I would only want to do it in secret and then leave. Right. That's the power move, right?

It's like you pay your tab, you leave an extra 50 for the bar. That's why it's doucheier in a more crowded, expensive context. It is all about using money that you don't value that much to bring attention on yourself. Right, yeah, that's how you look. That doesn't necessarily make for Z Zach looking that great in this. It's supposed to be this like reformed Zach, but he's just out there to stunt and shine. I don't know, Zach, I'm not necessarily convinced

that you're all that cleaned up. Yeah, you know what would have been a great look is if Zach bought a round for the bar, but didn't yell it out and kept it on the down low Yeah, you're like that's how you know he truly changed you're like James Kennedy constantly swearing up and down that you've stopped Drinking and you've stopped taking shots and then like every time Lisa Vanderpump gives you a second chance You fucking get shit house drunk and you ruin one of the nights at, and everybody's mad at you. O'Brien and Bashir have graduated from Racketball to playing Darts in the Cargo Bay.

Boy, am I positive that Renee Abershenwa is grateful for that. Like as a director? You do not want to fuck around with racquetball. Like darts is better. It is so hard to make any racquet sport look good on camera. If the people playing it aren't already like amazing at it, you don't need a knuck suit to play darts either. Yeah, yeah, you can just keep them in the same uniforms. And all you need to do is design up like a little, like it's like a regular dart board with a circle of

boot boop lights put around it. Like, it's great. You just said keep them in the same uniforms. Were you talking about the knuck? No, or the carrot. Normal uniforms that they wear. Okay. But sheer is getting real distracted in this episode because the chief is really laying into him

about this Carrington prize. I guess the smart money's on way to patrol. He's throwing his darts pretty wild, like hitting the wall quite a bit. Yeah, you don't wanna do that. Yeah, there's a psychology to the game of Darts. And if you can distract your little buddy while he's tossing him, it will definitely throw his game off.

I kind of feel like if I were on DS9, I would spend a lot of time in the cargo base. Just checking it out. It kind of seems like a fun place to do weird shit like play darts. Yeah No one's gonna bug you in there. Somebody's gonna take delivery of their shipment of self-sealing stem bolts though And be like why are there a bunch of little tiny holes in the side of this crate? These bolts can't self-seal at all now They're worthless. These space condoms caused a ton of pregnancies that were unplanned.

They do that thing where they know all of each other's buttons, right? O'Brien pushes the Carrington Award button on Bashir, Bashir pushes the cake O'Brien on O'Brien. It's fun. It's the sort of currency that good friends have. They have found a game that they're relatively evenly matched at. And part of that is the fact that they know each other's buttons. Yeah.

Yeah. Quark walks into, I guess, I don't know what it is that he walks into, but it is being declared as the sector headquarters of the Ferengy Benevolent Association. Oh, Ben, those are his quarters. Oh, that's his quarters? His quarters have been assimilated by the Ferenci Benevolent Association. He's a Borg. Oh, no.

We got the Borg. Man, the Ferenci Benevolent Collective really doesn't take no for an answer, you know. resistance appears to be futile. It sucks when your apartment's been turned into a place where the mason's gather, right? Yeah. And like it's a place where the mason's gather and also the guy that the silent Velae for Zec guy. It seems to be running the show to some extent. Like, I kind of feel like Ram has like a ceremonial title,

but my hair do. My hair do has like the operational authority. I don't know which is a funnier name. My hair do or Tiny Ron, which is the name of the actor who plays him. Don't touch my hairdo. My hairdo. Yeah, tiny Ron.

Wow, good stuff. Yeah, fun. This is a great episode. Not of this show, but of a few space nine, I agree. Quark and ROM are less put off by Quark's quarters being assimilated into this weird co-op, then they are legit concerns that Zach has a medical problem. So they take Zach to be sure to be checked out. Yeah, it's like Quark Hall's Zach into six bay and it's like, hey, this old man, I mean, it's very sad, but I believe he

may have come down with a bad case of philanthropy. Yeah, looks terminal. They run some tests on him and it seems to check out though. He doesn't have anything wrong with him that Bashir can tell. His endocrine systems in terrific shape. You see, I told you. This is a scene that confirmed a suspicion that I've had since the last episode, which can tell. His endocrine systems in terrific shape. You see? I told you. This is a scene that confirmed a suspicion that I've had since the last episode, which

is I feel like they changed the combat just on this show. Oh, shit, really? I feel like they are different than what they've been in the episodes before, like an extra, like, you know how Matt something looks when it's next to something glossy? Like, it looks even more matte than usual. If you're like, there is a, there's a stroke inside of the combat symbol that is matte and then the interior is gloss,

that like, I don't know, I just feel like it looks different to me. Well. Anyway, probably nothing. I couldn't find any evidence of this. I actually did research to try to confirm it, but no dice. Looks the same to me, but I'd be curious to see what people say, like, right in. Use the hashtag GreatestGen, let us know. Yeah. So the thing is, like Bashir finds nothing and this really irritates Quark and Rom. Irritates them enough that they're gonna do a B&E

on the Negus' shuttle. They're like trying to break into, in through the door, and my hairdo finds them, and just like, whoops the car open. He's got the other key fob. Yeah, the one that you give to the valet. He's got the valet key, Ben.

Yeah, that one's you give to the valet. He's got the valet keypin. Yeah, that one's waterproof unlike the unlike the one that you keep with yourself. Right. And he shows them in. I'm like, one of the things the negas has been talking about is this gift that he plans on giving to the bejorans. Yeah. And what they discover when they get on board the shuttle is that there is a there's a zombie box., the negas has come into possession of one of the, the orbs of the profits. And we've heard a little bit about these. Like, one of the things set up in the pilot of this show is the idea that there's like a role-playing game type quest where Cisco is going to have to account for all these missing

orbs. And finally, some action on that front. It's another line item in the list of insanity that's growing for Zach, right? Because like, Zach Prime would be the type of person who would want to sell this shit back to Bejor, a huge profit. But Malibu Zach is all about giving it back to Beisour, a huge profit. But Malibu's Zach is all about giving it back to Beisour. Grand Negus Jake. As the one person population of Malibu, I can tell you, I very infrequently want to give

anything besides extermination to other people. A lot of people took the warning signs of my episode of Star Trek the next generation. It's just merely an episode of a fictional television show, but in fact Malibu has burned to the ground and my house is the only thing left. I believe I should be taking a little bit more seriously at this point. Benjamin R. Harrison. I find your interest in making light of a terrible tragedy. Preferably hurtful. And in an effort to head off the many, many letters you should receive, I will just say this. I've destroyed your email inbox and all the content of it like so many hushnack. In the struggle to get the orb, quirk wants the orb, ram wants the orb and in the struggle to get the orb, court wants the orb,

Ram wants the orb, and in the struggle, the box opens, and court has his first orb experience. And it does not exactly provide answers, but it does kind of persuade Quark that he should be like taking the profit element of this story a little bit more seriously. How about Renee Abbergenois stepping up to the plate and directing a orb experience? It's pretty intense. I thought it was well executed.

I think maybe better with with the orb. Like I like how the profits take the form of people you know. I like the overexposed diffusion filter look of everything. Yeah. It really works. Like you could so accidentally haunted house this thing and make it look like shit. And they got it right the first time. And they made a model for what it's like in this world that actually works repeatedly.

And I think they really got lucky with that. It is the opposite of Q for me, where like Q is in the first episode of TNG and is the worst part of that episode in my estimation and There's a ton of revision on what Q is and can be over the course of the series. Yeah, this is like no like that was Pretty good the first time and this is just a sharpened blade of that. Yeah Really well done. We have interactions with the Prophet a couple of times in this episode and they're both really strong some of the strongest parts of the show

Quirk comes out of this experience Convinced that what's wrong with the negus is that he's high on orb and So they they came up with a plan that they're gonna head back into the wormhole like they they think that the negis like must have gone into the wormhole and interacted with the aliens and if they can talk to the aliens about what happened maybe they can solve the problem. Brother this is a very brave thing you're doing taking the negis back to the wormhole, wish I could come with you. But again, goodbye.

Yeah, I mean, Zex logs indicate that he grabbed the orb, went into the wormhole to communicate with the prophets, and then he sort of bifte-tanninged the sports almanac. Like if the orb is the sports almanac, and his ship is the delorean, and the wormhole is the flex capacitor. That is a workable metaphor, right Ben? No, right Scott.

Because Zeck was trying to exploit the orb for financial gain, that's my point. Yeah, he came across the idea. Zeck even has that cane that Future Biff Tanen has. Come on. I just don't like, like, I was very triggering to me to hear about Future Biff Tanen for contemporary political reasons. All right. What's exciting is Quark decides to like retrace the steps.

Yeah, that's the plan. Toss a bag over Zec's head. My hair's you literally like Santa Claus's Zech back to the shuttle pod. And he's enjoying it. Like I've heard of Stockholm Syndrome, but this is ridiculous. You know my boy, I should be very angry with you. Are you? And not in the slightest.

Zech is having a great time. Yeah. Sex ship is positively covered in decapitated R2D to that, right? I mean, this is a traditional, fringy design technique. Lots of hemispheres with lines drawn on them. And when they get in there, he explains like, oh yeah, like if you want to talk to the profits,

it's easy peasy, you just open that or box and they will present themselves. And he reaches out and grabs Quark's earlobe one more time, just one more dick tap as we head into the climax of the episode. So what Quark went through before when he opened up the orb was not talking to the profits, but this time he is. Yeah. Who was he talking to when he was not talking to the prophets, but this time he is. Yeah. Who was he talking to when he was talking to Zach the first time though, just a figment of that?

Yeah, like some echo of the prophets or something. Yeah. Because this really is, like he's talking to not just Zach, but also my hairdo and rom and Cisco and DAax and Bashir. You hear Rom talk in profit voice? That is creepy shit. The Cisco said that corporeal beings value their linear existence. It's a creepy scene.

Rom being serious is surprisingly unnerving. Mah hairdo talking is not good. No. No, it's all bad. It really acts when he's talking, which is surprising because he's like pretty good wordlessly. Right. But somehow in this scene, it's not great. But Quirk is as quick on the uptake as Cisco ever was.

He kind of figures out what's going on, what the profits are, the fact that they're presenting themselves to him as people he knows. And he actually is able to pretty quickly get to a point where he is having a conversation with them and arguing for like what you have done to Zek has the potential to like really screw a lot of people's lives and I know that like you didn't understand

His aggression, but it's actually like really important to a lot of people and if he could put him back to normal That would be great. His request isn't met with With great interest because they see him as so much like Zech that they want to treat him the same way. They're like Quark, you're just as adversarial, aggressive and intrusive as the first guy. We don't like corporeals anyway. We definitely don't like you. How about we turn you into the same thing we turn Zek into that would be good

It puts them in a tough position like it's That thing where They're like oh, maybe we'll throw you in jail too along with the guy you're defending and he gets pretty desperate You know like he and and starts like he gets he gets some poise. He starts to argue his case fairly compellingly. Like, the corporeal beings are interested in self-betterment and some take a different stab at this, but Prangis take self-betterment as profit and you're sort of invalidating some deeply held stuff

about what it's like to be us in robbing that from Zech. Say what you will about Quark's abilities. He is really good at talking his way out of a guillotine. Yeah. You know, like he did it when he was on Kronos. He does it again here. Right. Because the wormhole aliens are like, Quark is a work criminal and he believes in our same things as Zack. We should put him on the guillotine and separate his head from his neck. Show him who is boss. You really want to do this here.

Now, okay, okay, let's do it. Quark says that look if you lobotomize me It's just gonna make other Ferengi curious about what you've done here and it's gonna send more Ferengia You don't want that and there's a TNG episode about this too, right? You remember the episode where they met the aliens and then those aliens like Backed up time on them except they left clues about the missing time and the clues ended up being so enticing to them that it was a human nature thing

that brought them back again and again. Yeah, and they were like, listen, you're just gonna have to let us go or everybody is gonna come here to figure out what's going on here. Quarks case is similar. He's like, look, you could change me into Zech, but I'm telling you,

that's gonna be a really bad look for you because you can have a thousand Ferengies wanting the same experience. So why don't you not only send me back as normal, but why don't you return Zech to normal and then we'll leave you alone forever? I love the way the Wormhole Aliens operate here because the second his case is persuasive, they just send

him back. Like there's no like, there's no like, great, well, I'm glad we have this conversation. Like there's, there's no that like, the hang up without saying good. The long tail of the argument is totally done away with, which is something that like, you know, when I have a disagreement with my wife, I sometimes assume like the second we reach agreement is when the fight is over. And that is not really the case, you know, like you have to like, you have to like both come down off the emotional high of having disagreed about something. God, sometimes I feel like we're living the same life. But yeah, I know what you mean. You need a decompression

state. And, and what's great about the profits is that they have no need for decompression. They're like us. Yeah. They don't need that shit. They're like, Oh, we work to our way to an agreement. Great. It's over. Let's watch some fucking cheers, you know. The profits, they're just like us. Yeah. They buy They buy cat litter. They return you to your caporeal state without an ending to your conversation. They're excited about that. The fact that there's 11 seasons of cheers on Netflix and they just want to watch it right now. Yeah. So cut to the shuttle and things are right back to normal. Yep. Sick is his greedy old self. Yeah. He's like, hey, like, let's, uh, let's wrap this up pretty quick.

I gotta go sell this orb to the bejorins and he doesn't seem to have a memory for what's happened to him though, right? Yeah, which is fucked up. Yeah. That's a little too clean. Yeah. I think so too. Like if he was disgusted at the way he had acted, yeah, that would be a pretty interesting thing to watch that go through.

Right. Yeah, there's just no time, though. We got to button this thing up. But there's one more button on buttoned, Ben. Yeah. It's the matter of the Carrington Awards. We got to watch the award ceremony. And Dr. Bashir has not gone to the codec theater or whatever for the ceremony. And Dr. Bashir has not gone to the Kodak theater or whatever for the ceremony.

So presumably if he wins, it'll be one of those like Dr. Bashir could not be present, but a member of the Hopi Nation is here to accept the word on his behalf. I mean, everyone at the parties printed out their vanity fair list of awards and nominees. Yeah. Gonna try to win the prize pool. Yeah, but the mistake they all made is that they is that they bet on Bashir because the winner is not Bashir. It is in fact, Dr. Henri Roje.

Yeah, I mean, and the thing about Roche is that there's probably an entire book full of scientists that are very similar to him already. Yeah. Yeah, it's called a Thessaurus. You suck. He's suckin' HAHAHAHAHAHAHA's been caught at one point by Odo, like writing his acceptance speech. I think he thought he was gonna win and instead, homie lost.

And like the truth of the matter is, he's disappointed. Because he's vain. We've always known this about him last A couple scenes of the episode have ramen quirk C. Zeck and Mahardu off they've burned all copies of the revised rules of acquisition From his sneezes we can surmise that grand negus is back on that snuff and yeah, like they depart and Quirk and Rom are talking about how it's a shame that they didn't make any money off of all this trouble. And Rom reveals something that is quite delightful to Quirk. Yeah, they ripped off Zech. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about the Ferengi Benevolent Association. Did you know it was funded with Zech's personal fortune? Yeah, and ripping off the leader of your society if your Ferengi is actually a really good thing. Yeah, it's a power move. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of dig that. And fun to see it coming from Ram. Like, fun to see Ram get a W. Right? Because Ram takes the L so much. He has taken a couple of Ws lately in the defense of his son, for instance. Yeah. In this episode, when he says, look man, it's my apartment and my rules. So quit fucking up my spot.

Like, he's getting brave. And I like it. I'm into it I I'm in Sweet I'm in Did you like the episode? I mean I'm coming around to the idea that Zeck and Luxon a Troy or not equivalent chaos agents I think I like the episode for

It's trip back into the wormhole to talk to the prophets. I think that's such a strong scene that it buoys the rest of the app. It's funny how much more effective Quark is in talking to the prophets than Cisco is, but also kind of believable. Yeah, I mean, and again, like I don't see Quark living out the rest of his life with any sort of religious meaning, like he's a tourist. He's a religious tourist in the way that Cisco could be,

but is not. Yeah. And I like that. I like that he was there to, like in a way, he is more of a true explorer in that sense than Cisco is. Yeah. But Cisco needs it in a way spiritually that Quark does not. Like it was so affecting the Cisco because he got to see his wife again.

And I don't think, I think that's a ton of meaning that Quark can't possibly get. What about you, Ben? I like the episode. One thing I thought a lot about in watching it is how many times we've seen Quirk do something that is unredeemable and how In this like this is best case scenario Quirk where he is a This is best case scenario, Quirk, where he is a bit of a crook, but he's got a heart of gold and also fights for what's right in spite of being a bit of a crook. And they've missed that tone a few times. I think this is the best case scenario for representing what this character is about. So for a quirk episode, it's up there for me. Yeah, you know what?

I want to qualify my own rating in the same way for a quirk episode. Pretty strong. As a deep space nine episode, this feels like a mid season pad. Fair. You know, it always pads our stats been. The priority one message is, what do you say we, uh, we uncork one of those. Let's do it. See if the liquid is brown.

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Like, while we were doing soundcheck and my lift driver was watching football on television while driving me. Right. Pretty intense show. But I think we had a really good time doing the show on stage, right? Yeah, we'll definitely go back. Yeah. The place was great. That was a really, really fun one. But thank you, Ferndale Friends of Desotos

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Ono Ross and Carrie, available on MaximumFun.org. skizmota. Everything we know about the tears of the profit are that they are super valuable. The Bejorns lost them. Many of them to the Cardassians are trying to get them back. And for quirk to just like open the boxes whenever he wants to have a profound religious experience on a whim. I think is great like he I think he understands what he's doing. I think he understands the gravity of Speaking to the prophets or from doing box. Yeah, but he is so cavalier about it and so willing To try to correct this thing with the Zech that I just love it. Like, like he fucking takes Zech's shuttle and goes into the wormhole.

If any scientist or if Ben Sisko himself had an orb and a chance to go into the wormhole to speak to the prophet, I feel like he would really think long and hard about whether or not he wanted to do that. And reflexively, Cork is in just all the way in. And I think that's great. Like I'm all for respecting a religious deity, but not to the point of like a fear or changing your behavior. Cork is true to himself. Quark's going to go into that wormhole and he's going to talk to some profits.

I think that's great. That's what makes him my Shimoda. What about you? That scene when they're reading out the nominees and announcing the winner of the Carrington Award. It's one of these classic, like getting a big group of people together to hang out Problems that arises sometimes which is that there are not enough seats for all the people that have have have gathered together There are there are four seats in this scene

Dex and Bashir both have a seat but you know Kira and Cisco and O'Brien are also in the scene, they don't have seats and they're a number of other Bedurren and Starfleet officers present every time they cut away from the widescreen TV to the crowd that is gathered to see whether Bashir won this award or not. And the two other Starfleets that got seats are like total red shirts, but specifically the guy in the actual red shirt is my Shimoda because he's sitting in that seat with the expression of a guy that realizes that maybe he should have given the seat to the commander, but it's like too late.

The moment is already too awkward for him to get up and say, oh, you should probably sit down here because you are way higher ranked than I am. He is like, his teeth are visible and he is visibly stressed out. And I just believe that this, like the guy that, the extra that played this part, decided to make his motivation like feeling the awkwardness of the idea that he's sitting down and a bunch of his superiors are standing right next to him and he is not like giving it up for them. I just I love how stressed out he looks in this moment so that one red shirt is my Shimada. Good one.

Ben, what do we have coming up on the next episode? Next episode is season three, episode 17, visionary. And the Netflix description is Romulan's arrived to study reports on the Dominion, a privilege granted in exchange for the use of the cloaking dice aboard the defiant. The Amazon description is an accident causes O'Brien to jump into the near future where he witnesses his own death and worse. What the fuck? I don't think we've ever gotten two more different episode capsules than those. I think they're growing apart. Like, the Netflix guy is getting lazier and the Amazon guy is getting more, like, maybe

I should be writing, like, taglines for movie posters is like, is like the motivation I'm seeing here in the Amazon guy. Wow. I'm excited for this episode. Or gal that could both be gals, I don't know. Or, you know, they could be days. Let's figure out in what way we're going to review this episode, Ben.

All right, well, we are currently on square 38 on the game of buttholes, the will of the profits. It's taken our sweet ass time, crawling across this game board. We really are. I like it. We're sort of edging the profits. It's taken our sweet ass time, crawling across this game board. What really are? I like it. We're sort of edging the game. Yeah, I mean, since the upgrade, I don't think we've had a single,

spec-ep, right? Yeah. I know. What is going on with the way, uh, the way this thing was designed, that it's like tricking us into not doing crazy episodes? Are you speculating that there's some back-end code? Shenanigans involved? Here's what I'm saying.

The code is available on GitHub or something like that. If you go to gach.biz slash game and scroll to the bottom of the page, you can see, you can find the source code. Oh man, are you gonna let our game get hacked by a leak? Hack source, Ben? No, I'm saying do what? I want somebody to look at the source code and make sure that there's nothing fishy going on. Because I want to make sure that everything is on the app and up here.

And you just want to get drunk more. That's what I think. Maybe. You're required to learn as you play. Roll. Roll them bones, Ben. All right, I'm gonna roll them. I have rolled a five.

Tula! Did I win? All they've got. Which kicks us all the way up to square 43, which is a plain old app. But that puts us in striking distance of the traveler square. And also, I believe, in striking distance of a wormhole that would take us to a fuck it, we'll do it live square.

Wow. So, got some hurdles coming up. Yeah, indeed. We should wrap it up there though, Adam. The next episode is just going to be a reg app, and I'm perfectly fine with that. It's an episode that will be on the reg. Adam, I love doing podcasts with you, and I love that the Friends of Disotto support us in so many ways.

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material. That music being the main theme song of the greatest generation program. Yeah. But Adam Ragusia continues to do great work for us for our podcast projects as well as our live shows. And we thank him. Choo indeed. Gotta thank Bill Tilly, the creator of Super Fun,

baseball style cards for every episode. He's making jokes on top of jokes in a way that I really enjoy, and you can check out his work by going to Twitter and finding him at Bill Tilly in 1973. 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 Deep Space 9, that I will describe one way, and Ben will describe, like he's watching a completely different episode. So, one of us works for Netflix, and the other works for Amazon? Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.

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