The Greatest Generation - Slickback Emeritus (DS9 S2E7)

Episode Date: April 9, 2018

When Quark brokers a deal with someone who has a severe case of “bad guy face,” he needs help from a coworker. But when Rom discovers what she’s been hiding under her bed, it forces Quark to choose between his moral and legal codes. Why does the promenade close? What’s the best pretzel in the game? Is Morn is a hobo? It’s the episode that recounts our frequent history of make-out erasure!

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I'm Ben Harrison. We're back where we belong. Ben on opposite sides of the same coast. No longer looking at each other during. I'm wearing a comfy pair of sweatpants. Oh, I'm so glad I'm wearing a comfy pair of shorts because it is hot as fuck here. Oh, I left and then it becomes shorts weather.

That's typical, right? You came for maybe the rainiest couple days that Los Angeles has seen in five years. Yeah. From Seattle. The day I got to LA they were calling it storm of the year. And it was the thing that delayed our flight to the Grand Canyon. Yeah. Ben, did we talk about the Grand Canyon trip at all? I can't remember. I don't think we did. Yeah. I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time and I did it with you and a bunch of other Max, Max von Pals working on a fun, pledge drive specific reward project from last year. Yeah, it was really, it was really shameful for me to stand there and have you look back

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Yeah. Two great tastes that'll most definitely taste great together, Ben. You and I will sit on the end with the ugly host. Well, the host of the flop house occupied the first three chairs in that great looking band. Yeah. So we'll be back later to talk about pledge gifts one more time. But guys, this is the max fun drive. There are only two weeks a year where this happens. And it's where we develop the large, large majority of the support that we get for the show. If you're

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cracked open our Bible. What do you say we do a little Bible study? It's good to see you all in church. It's cool to the Bible. That's the way God wants it. I don't know why, dude. All these questions? Is a little blind thing too much to ask?

I know. I know. I know. I know. Did you go to a lot of church when you were little? I did go to church a lot when I was little. I did too. Did you ever, were you ever made to, uh, to read the verses? Uh, in front of the congregation?

I was. I was also in the choir and I was, uh, an acolyte. I like helped, uh, helped the priest during services when I was a teen. Jesus, Ben. I think we have a very similar background in that regard. Of course, I was disinvited from the choir. In a rare bit of non-forgiveness by those at my church, they were unwilling to accept me into a contrato standing in the choir. They said, well, he has the voice of an angel. We cannot allow him into our choir.

The lungs of an angel who were slowly filling with liquid. Well, then I've turned to page 14 in the Star Trek DS9 showbible. Page 14 is, is in the middle section of how they describe their main cast characters. And we should know it for this episode. I've turned to the chapter on Quark. On. Quark is the Firingy bartender. The Firingy race has been a part of STTNG since the very beginning.

They are ugly, sexist, greedy little aliens who are interested only in profit, and getting their hands on anything of yours they happen to fancy. Quark runs many of the entertainment concessions on DS9 including the bar restaurant gambling house and the Hollis sweets upstairs. He spends most of his time behind the bar. It is interesting that he spends so much time behind the bar. Like he's like a real hands-on restaurant tour, you know? He has not come around to that thing where delegation is the true power of management. Right, yeah. He's kind of particular about how the drinks get made

and he doesn't really trust anybody else to do it. He's not being on soft power, is he? No. If there is some scam being run in the sector, it often involves him. Beyond the malevolence, he is a charming host and forges an interesting relationship with Cisco. They actually enjoy sparring together now and then, and the Ferenci lenta hand to solve problems for the commander. As long as there's something in it for him. His a-feet sexist attitudes make Kira an obvious adversary. He is consumed with passion for dax. So ends the reading. Peace be with you Adam.

Peace be with you Ben. Wow, sort of an abrupt end to the Quark chapter, letter from Quark to the Corinthians. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that Odo doesn't get name checked in that, right? I know, they seem like they are more naturally adversarial than Kira and Quark, but maybe we'll find out more from the Odo chapter in the show Bible. What an interesting chapter to select given the topic of today's episode, Adam.

It's season two, episode seven, Rules of Acquisition. Do you realize how many? What about this series? No, of course you don't. How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many?

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How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? How many? can't stay here born. Why does the promenade close, Ben? This is like when you're when you're

unfortunate enough to to beat an airport and and departing on a flight that is leaving after all of the restaurants and bars close. And you just that's that's another moment where I'm like, why isn't there one thing open in the airport? There should be things open on the promenade at all times, right? You think that it would be a 24 hour thing if on, is it 25 hours? Is that like a bit a page or a thing that everything's on a 25 hour clock? I think so. But like ships put in there all the time, right? And they've got their own clocks on the ship, right? It's not like you, you put into port and you reset all the clocks to whatever they're at, right? That'd be fucking chaos, Adam.

That'd be like going from three shifts to four shifts. I don't like you. And that never stuck. Oh. If you're going to have us believe that this is a place with closed hours, then stick a couple of vending machines on the promenade. I wanna know what's in those vending machines. Mm-hmm. We see nary vending machine machines on the promenade. I want to know what's in those vending machines.

We see nary vending machine in the entire promenade. Morn gets up and shuffles over to the closed doors of Quarks. Is Mornahobo? Does he have nowhere to live? He's like, he's just in Quarks until he gets kicked out and then sleeps it off on a bench and then goes back into Corks. Where does the money for paying

for what he buys at Corks come from? I both do and don't wanna know how Morn earns that money that he then just dumps straight back into Corks. I think it's pretty safe to say that the fun has stopped for Morn, W. Slash R. Slash G. Corks. Yeah. It's sort of a say that the phone has stopped for Morn, W slash R slash T, Quarix. It's sort of a sad story.

The more I think about it. Morn is drinking because he has to to keep the pain at bay. Much like the story of most people with enormous cocks, Morn's is a story of tragedy and failing to fit in to normal life. He's gonna end up like jerk digler like just jerking it in a pickup truck for 10 bucks. Yeah, 13 inches of tough load entry you gently. It's not how you want to end up. That's sad.

Well inside Quarks, the activity has not exactly died down. It's just gone more exclusive. There's a game of tango being played. So I guess Quark kind of turns into a game's workshop in the off hours. I really like the analog between what's happening here and the idea of like a Chinatown district with a like some exotic off-hour gambling happening here,

and it involves view master discs. And they do a slow pan around the table. They're sort of a lazy Susan of gambling in the middle and they pan to the last person and it's Dax and she's kicking their asses. Doesn't she have a lose? Yeah, Dax learned as Kersan, but now in Jadzia edition is even better at this game than Kerson

ever was. And despite the evidence that is right in front of them that women can be good at things too, they're like stating their belief that women suck at this and therefore it is unjust that she be winning. I really wanted a slow pan down to like a sleeved ankylosaur tail holding another couple of these discs like an ace-up-or-sleeve style. No one ever checks the ankylosaur for cards. No, yeah. Would it be coming out of that like,

that marsupial pouch that she's sort of implied to have? That is exactly what I'm talking about. Gross. So we also get a little intrigue with a fringy waiter name of Pell, who is kicking it to quirk about some types of sand peas that he thinks are going to be going to be a hot new bar snack at the bar because they make you so insanely thirsty.

There's no such thing as pretzels in the 24th century future. Like this is a new technology, the idea of a salty snack. When the earth went full post-scarcity communism, unfortunately the Sniders of Hanover Corporation went out of business. If you're planning a first strike, you wanna knock out the Sniders compound first. Yeah, you wanna go with the Sniders of Hanover pieces.

Don't fuck with the nibs the honey mustard and onion pieces Best pretzel in the game. Oh Geez, I'll that I'll that mustard powder Disagree good stuff hard disagree Delicious the trouble with eating a pretzel that's dusted with mustard powder is your mouth tastes like mustard powder after. Yeah, it's fucking delicious. Well, in the absence of pretzels, I've got to do these peas. And ROM is like real threatened by this because this is definitely like somebody getting a

come up in a place where he feels like he is entitled to all come up because the boss is his brother. And part of it is because, uh, Pell is a real go getter. Just in general, like, yeah. Pell is, Pell is very knowledgeable about the rules of acquisition. Pell has ideas about how to further a Quark's business in ways that, Ram really doesn't. Like it's easy for him to be threatened by Pell because Pell is almost exactly Ram's opposite. And this starts a enmity between the two

where Ram keeps trying to fire Pell and Quark keeps shutting that down. So this is all interrupted by Grant Negase, face timing in to say that he is visiting the station. The Ferenci expansion into the Gamma Quadrant is about to begin. Which kind of blindsides quirk, but Zeck is there to oversee the initial Ferenci business forays in the Gamma Quadrant. I'd like you to be my chief negotiator.

I was a little surprised that Zeck had the cruise jev phone into Quark's quarters. Like that direct line of communication would make me so paranoid a fabric quark. I think it could ring at any time. Yeah, he's got the Amazon Echo that has the screen where you could just pop in. Yeah, I don't like that at all.

It's so creepy. Zach, give me a fucking break. It's nice to have Wallace Sean back, though. Yeah. Yeah, the promise here is that there's a shitload of Latinum in it for him if you can just start up the business on the other side of the hole. And Latinum's all quark wants in the world.

So Zach comes aboard and like he pops into Commander Cisco's office to talk to Cisco and Kira. And you know, it's one of those weird things where he's like a head of state that they have no respect for. You know, it's like Gaddafi visiting the UN. It's like, okay, I guess we have to listen to this asshole for a little while.

Yeah, yeah, heads of state that no one has respect for. It's so weird. You see that so infrequently these days. Yeah. Nice, nice that we live in an era where we've put all that kind of silliness behind us. One thing that they have not put behind them on this show is that like, Zeck and to a greater degree, the Ferengi are still the physical comedians of Star Trek.

A little later, wait. And he does this thing. It's kind of like negotiation edging where he promises a bunch of free fertilizer to Kira as payment for letting him do the thing and then like wraps up the meeting by going like, all right, well, I'll just put together an invoice for that fertilizer and they're like, no, no, no, no, Zach, you said free. And it like goes back and forth a couple of times. And he, it's clear that he's really just getting off on the idea that they are haggling

over a final agreement. Like, he doesn't actually care about the money even as much as the haggle. It's the game. Yeah. That's what he lives for. He does it all for the love. He gets the paper, but he's still for the love, y'all. Looks like Kira has a slightly different haircut in the scene.

Ben and it made me think. She lost Slickback? Is she the fourth Slickback? I feel like. Because she seems to be going to the same hairstyle as Jake. But how did that child acquire access to a shuttlecraft? They're more Slickbacks than I feel like the Slickback trilogy would imply. I think she qualifies.

She's at least like slick back emeritus, right? Yeah, she's like the big sister slick back. Big brother, big slick back. You have another one? No. Yeah, I don't either. Uh, no. Yeah, I don't either. Go to Kotlin'

Go to Kotlin' So... So, Kork is super-amped about his good fortune, and the responsibility he's being given, but Pell sort of has a warning for him, and that warning is like, you know, it seems great on the surface that you're being put in charge here,

but if it's a success, Zach is gonna take all of the credit, and if it's a failure, you're gonna need someone to take the blame. You mean me? And Pell always seems to be around with that kind of knowledge. Like, she's a very steadying force for Cork in this way.

She's like, don't let Zach Shimon Perez, your Yitzhak Rabin. Like, either way, Zach wins. You just want to make sure you don't lose. I think it's important to apply Israeli government analogs to all of the situations here in this episode specifically. We get a reveal here after the advice that Pell gives Quark of a form of disrobing where Pell takes off her ears and and sort of the corset that has been gathering her in. You know like whenever I get home from a shoot or a day

at work you like to you like to undo tab button, loosen the collar a little bit. And make fists with your toes. Throw my ears in the box where I keep them, just like Pell. I know, I know, it sounds crazy. So it's a fairly startling reveal that Pell is a lady Pell. And this is significant because all we know about Frengy women up to this point are that they are submissive to their men. They are naked and they aren't allowed to do business. These are things that Pell does all of.

Yeah. And they're also not allowed to leave the Frankie home world and Pell did that too. Yeah. Pell's ticking all the boxes that girls aren't supposed to tick. I like the end of this scene. Pell just sits down in the chair, satisfied that she's not in drag anymore, but it's like, like it's like one of those things

that like only works in television and film. Like nobody ever sits down and just goes, hmm, hmm, and then stares off into space at, you know, indefinitely. Pell sits down on Melora's remote control and turns off the gravity on accident. She'd be totally fucked if she got Malora's cabin. Oh, yeah, I wonder how that works. What do you how do you think you get assigned quarters when you get to deep space nine?

Does deep space nine charge rent? I guess it must right because it's got to like it's it's bejorin. I bet there's a sliding scale based on accommodations and view, a lot like a cruise ship, right? You want outward facing ring. Yeah. Or if you get inward facing, inward facing on somebody hot, you know. And what's going on here seems pretty pervy, doesn't it? Yeah, you don't want to get stuck with that situation you get in an apartment complex sometimes, where you...

There's some old man walking around and his underpants across the way. Yeah, and he's just scratching. Yeah, that's not good. He needs to get a cream on that. Yeah. No scratches. Yeah, like go to the dermatologist dude,

what's going on? The alien race that Quark is meant to do business with are the docey. And these guys have recently gone to a carnival where they do face painting. Yeah. And this stuff is not washing off. Yeah. It's kind of like what if a BDSM review from a like a bondage club went to went to a carnival and got some face paint.

The lead dosie is a real that guy, Ben. It's Brian Thompson. Yeah. Who you might remember as the alien bounty hunter in X-Viles, he had like a super long run on that show where he mostly just squinted into the camera and flexed his face. Yeah, I love it. He's the most muscular face I've ever seen.

Yeah, he could like, he could like chop a brick and half by flexing his cheekbone. He really has bad guy face too, because he was the bad guy from Cobra, and once you get a type cast as, as a guy with that kind of face, I don't think he's ever gonna, he's never gonna be like the kindergarten cop. You know, he doesn't, he doesn't seem to have

it a very affectionate face. His, like even his headshot on IMDb is like, he's smiling and like looking happy and it's still terrifying. Like he just, He just looks evil. Is that all the association from the ex files that I'm projecting back onto him? I don't think you're wrong. I mean, he's got that smile that looks like he's hiding

an axe behind his back. Yeah. He's really great at his acting job though. Like this is not, I'm not disparaging the Brian Thompson. He acts behind his back. He's really great at his acting job, though. I'm not disparaging the Brian Thompson. Just saying that he's sort of born for this. It's fun that he gets a bunch of stuff to do in this episode. They give him that uniform that reveals his ample decal attached.

Because when you are, when you are racking those peck exercises in the gym, you wanna show that off. He's got, yeah, he's got pecks that are so big that he has full on dude cleavage. Yeah, they were like flipping through Laxana Troyes wardrobe to see if anything would work on him.

The thing with the dosie is that they're kind of a yellow screamer type. They're real like bang on the table and get your way sort of alien race. And this is not a way that core lights do business. Like he's he's very tactical and reasonable by comparison. But he's not scared really by all the bluster, which I think is, is neat to see.

We're called to together with the help of Pell. You want to do business with a Ferengi? You talk to Quark. Pell is the Ferengi behind the Ferengi. It's the guy, behind the guy, behind the guy. Quark made a very shrewd business decision in hiring Pell to be a consultant on this project. And Pell, you know, gets off to a bit of a rocky start,

but she is an natural and she helps him, you know, like this first negotiations and doesn't go great in that it doesn't like end with thumb on pad, but it does end with the dozy saying that they'll think about what they've talked about. And at least the door is still open. It doesn't seem like a no yet. And that feels like success at this point. Right. As you're a scene that began so threateningly closer to success than it seemed like they

would get at the beginning. We have a kind of fun scene in Ops, where Kira and Dax are hanging out and the Aresat's Homme that Zek rolls around with comes up there and gives Kira some kind of romantic overture from Zek. And they get to talk about how much DX just really loves the Farenki. I don't understand your attitude about the Farenki. I mean, and I really admired DAX's description of them. It made me consider them in a way that I really hadn't before. Like, you really know what you get with the Farenki.

Like, there are a number of things to worry about, but at least you know. Like, that knife is not going to hit you in the back with the Firingi. Like there are a number of things to worry about, but at least you know, like that knife is, is not going to hit you in the back with a Firingi. They're going to stab you in the chest. I mean, it will, they will stab you in the back, but they will, they will make it plain that they are stabbing you in the back while doing. Right. And as you're being stabbed, you'll sort of shrug your shoulders and be like, I should have known better. Yeah. Dexas dealt with probably thousands of different races for her to have any kind of specific

love for an alien race, I think, is very significant. She's the kind of character that sees the good in things, you know. She's not a judgmental person. And so the things that are true of the forangi are true. And she is like willing to enjoy them on those terms. And you know, like Kira is kind of the opposite, right? She like hates anybody that isn't a thousand percent, bejure and resistance affiliated. hates anybody that isn't 1,000% bejure and resistance affiliated. And really has a tough time like coming around on people

that don't have that point of view in their life. And she eventually does, but like for Dex, it's very easy. And I like that about her. There's really no reason to believe that Dex isn't a space hippie, right? Like I can't think of a moment where she's acted particularly aggressive

or mean or upset. Like the most memorable things about her are her passivity and her just blissful enjoyment of other people. Well, that's true, Adam. Pill makes the gravest of errors when the next Tango game ends because she goes with DAX to a second location. Right. He can't do that. Can't go there with a space hippie and this is the scene where Pell let's slip her secret right? Just even though I'm a female, you're a woman. Yeah, what's notable about this scene is how little DAX has to work to get a secret out of Pell that Pell has conceivably spent a very long time hiding. I know.

But it's that thing of Pell thinking dax knows until like why even conceal it. Right, but Jesus' Pell, like you need to be sure here. Everything depends on it. But it couldn't have happened with a better scene partner, because Dax accepts this news with a plomb and support. And you know, for sure, Dax isn't putting your business out in the street if you don't explicitly authorize that, you know? No, the only way you're gonna get that intel is by taking Adirankiosor and sticking it in yourself.

Yeah, but DAX really isn't a gossip. No. And she's like fascinated and intrigued by Pell. She has been kind of riding for a more woke way of thinking among the Ferengy she knows, and Pell is a great example of why that kind of thinking is true. It really is easy for Dax to say though, because Dax earns the Ferengy's respect by beating them at gambling, but Pell has been buried under the societal pressure that Ferengy put on females. And so, I totally understand her reticence or her disbelief in DAX's portrayal of Ferengy

is being potentially open-minded to this idea. Yeah, and I mean, I guess like we don't really know it would be interesting if they had spent some time on like what Pell's gambling strategy is. Like would Pell be dope at Tango, but, but loses to the boss because that's like the proper forangy thing or loses to the boss because she doesn't want to be made, you know, it doesn't ever want anybody to notice her. Like I feel like they could have explored the kind of subterfuge that she has to live her life with a little bit

more by like using that gambling lens a little bit. They never play it for comedy in a way that I am glad that they didn't. Like there's no Mrs. Doubt firing of Pell at any point, you know, where she's got to like stick two pies on the side of her head to confuse someone who's entered her quarters, you know, about the size of her lobes, you know. I think that that would be a punch down that would be not surprising given the track record of Star Trek writers rooms. But also not surprising with how this show treats Ferengi, and that was, I think, more the point that I was trying to make is like this alien race. It has been a punch down from the beginning, and it shows a sort of restraint that I was happy to see.

Right. No, yeah. I'm there with you, buddy. The one other thing that we get from the scene between Dax and Pell is that not only is Pella Ferenci female, but she's also in love with Quark. And I mean who wouldn't be, right? He treats her so well. It sounds like a, you know, one of those workplace romances that's just born out of proximity and time. Yeah. More than anything specific to the characters. I'm a fucking a pay. Mr. Bucket, I have to revert back to my state. Oh, I don't use the bucket anymore.

There's a line of dialogue here that clings with me every time I hear it, and I wish it was never a love of Quark with Dax and says there's only one thing I wasn't counting on falling in love There's only one thing I wasn't counting on ellipse moment to a line of dialogue is not great. That is a movie trailer narration That is not a thing that people say. I don't think there's a B storyline, but if there's a C storyline in this episode, it is the Zach trying to kick it to Kira storyline. She gives back the the necklace or whatever. It gets a little grabby with that ass. I wanted Kira to fucking take his head off.

Yeah, like does he have diplomatic immunity or like why doesn't he get drop kicked out of an airlock? Especially because Kira has thrown cork through his own bar for not even touching her. Like what gives a fuck about Zach? What is the upside of her ignoring the fact that he is breaking her touch bubble? I have no idea. It was not a great moment.

It's a weird episode because it's like, it's about like some characters being confronted with misogyny being bad, right? But this like, this just goes totally uncommented on like it's normal. Especially because, you know, we have been groomed as viewers to understand Kira as someone who puts up with no shit. Right, she, uh...

She definitely... Don't show her putting up with shit. Yeah. Give me a break. Don't retcon shit being put up with. I want to see Kira making a fist, and that fist is full of zch's stupid fucking ear hair. Like cut to her fucking braiding that and making it a medal under chest. That would be... ...fuck Zech forever.

That would be great. Like, especially after the scene where he's getting his ear hair groomed. Like if she just yanked a bunch of, like a fistful of it out of his head and walked off. Yeah. Like extracted payment for that disrespect. Here's why that's a great rewrite. It's because it doesn't change the relationship between Zech and Kira. If anything, Zech probably love that shit.

Right. And through that rewrite, we, the, the respect we have for Kira as a kick-ass person remains. Like I don't like how they've turned Kiraira into a subservient person, in this case, a diplomatic subservient in a way that we know she isn't. So, Pell and Quark have, I guess, Zach at some point gave them orders to increase the buy on the tulabaries that they're supposed to be purchasing from the the kinked out aliens and it doesn't go well. The aliens leave so quirk and pell have to take the negas's shuttle through the wormhole and into the gamma quadrant and pursue them which is kind of an adventure. It also kind of

surprising that the negas has such a small car given his position. It really looks perhaps the most preview like. If all the ships. Like this is TNG canonical, frangy shuttle. I mean, let me like if the head of the federation cruised around in a bunk bed. The thing I just like maybe even most about the Faringie Shuttle is how undetailed it is, it is so smooth. Like, there's subtle things about federationships, like that Aztec pattern that are on the ships that look really nice in three dimensions, but this thing is like a lasage. Yeah, all it has is those little pincers on the front. Yeah. What are those's like who cares? Yeah, one of those things do yeah, they're not pinching anything. No, that but texture is Pinch in some butt

Yeah, what if the what if that shuttle sexually harassed a spaceship? I Think that's what it was built for Rose It's amazing that they've been that they've been showing these for Angus ships for such a long time. Like this is probably like the fifth season of television that they've existed in. And they're just now paying that off. There's no windows in that back part of the van. Also been kind of dark to think about.

If this for Angus shuttles a rockin'. When they get to the planet, Quark has a scene here that I really thought you'd appreciate. He kind of peewee hermins the moment with the lead dosi guy. Yeah. Like he sort of does the peewee knock down the motorcycle thing. My belly's messed up.

In grabbing a barrel of the wine and spilling it to get this guy to take him seriously. And his doesn't care if he lives or die attitude, I think engenders some respect from this dosie guy. But he's like, no man, it's not that I don't want to do a deal with you, it's that I can't. I don't have the wine. I didn't get that, like, they're trying to buy the wine from the dosi or the tulabaries to make the wine from the dosi on the idea that they're going to make tulabary wine the most popular drink in the sector. Wouldn't it already be the most popular drink in the sector if they have the raw materials for it? I mean, I don't mean to be a guy that's making fun of somebody about raw materials, but...

Now, that would be very hypocritical of you. Yeah, the significance of what they're trying to do here is a little bit lost on me, especially because you would assume like anyone and anything else, people would have very specific tulibary wine preferences, whether or not that's related to brand or mixological makeup. Yeah, if you're going to go take them back to the flringing art to cultivate the wine, the terroir is not going to be on, you know? What makes them think that drinking out of a bottle with pincers on it is going to be that drinking out of a bottle with pincers on it is going to be what they want to do when they're used to this wine flowing like out of three spigots into a fountain. Yeah. Is that what that is? The blue shit is tulibari wine?

Yeah, that's what I got. I was just reading that as the stuff that's in a portable restroom that you see it like a festival or on a construction site. You're thinking that the Josie just have like an open trough style toilet in the center of their party. Yeah. Yeah. One of them was one of them was flying on a commercial jet and took a dump and took one look at that stuff and was like, hey, that looks pretty good. Yeah, that's not where my mind went on that one. Pretty gross, but imagine the implications. If the dosi in addition to just being hyper-aggressive, also eat and drink their own piss and shit. That's why they're so upset. They're very kinky people.

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you're at it, even if you don't listen to those shows, just just help your boys out. Yeah, that's all going to us too. What are you doing now? Quark and Pell do something on this business trip that I have refused to do for a long time, which is they share a hotel room. Yeah, the idea of sharing a hotel room with a business associate, not great. No, whether or not Pell's gender identity is an issue here, that that does not matter. It like they should not be getting into the same bed together as co-workers.

That's not fun. No, it's inappropriate. No matter what the gender situation is. If they were both boys. Right. And inappropriate. If one's gay, one's straight. And appropriate if both are gay. If both are straight.

If one's a boy, one's a girl. If both are girls. All scenarios. Inappropriate. A business should not be asking this, especially somebody as rich as Zach, right? Like he should shell out for a couple of rooms and let them earn the Starwood points on their own cards. That's the way, you know, you build a spree to

cure among your employees. What's the deal like? Do they have a Zach company card and they're like paying as they go? Because if I were them, I'd just be invoicing after the fact. Yeah. Get two rooms. Yeah. Invoice for two rooms. Tell you you're in all the Starwood points, Adam. I mean, ask forgiveness later, I guess. Yeah. I didn't know what the company travel policy was. I'm sorry.

Next time. Adam, when I travel with my wife, if we go to a hotel room that has two beds, we sleep in two different beds. I don't like sharing anything with anybody. You're really Brady bunching it, huh? Yeah, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea. This is one of those emotionally charged situations

that leads to a lot of bad decision making. Pell is really panicked when Quirk starts kind of like disrobing and she's like, well, maybe we should drink and strategize about business first. And I thought this was like her trying to get him drunk so that he would pass out before her. Yeah. But in fact, it is her doing liquid courage

to build up the nerve to lay a smooch on him. Yeah, which she does. And he's not entirely unreceptive to it. Like she kisses him and he kind of like starts lying back on the bed like, I don't know what's going on, but I like this. Which I kind of believe, right? Like I think that if you are responding to like the pheromones and personality of a person, you probably even if they weren't like, even if they weren't signaling the gender

that you're nominally attracted to, I bet you still fall in love for whatever in this very implausible scenario. Yeah, and at least in the future that's depicted here, like, Pell's gender doesn't appear to be an issue. Like, Quark is happy for the affection. Yeah, he's only happy briefly because the dozi lady that they had

in the initial negotiation barges into their hotel room, which is apparently all they have is a gauzy curtain, blocking it off. I'm not interrupting anything, am I? Given how violent the dozi have been depicted as being, I would be very scared to stay in this hotel. Yeah, there's definitely not a lock on that door. There's no nut that's as good as a lock.

Yeah, it's just a gauzy curtain and then one of those halogen lamps from the 90s that used to burn people's houses down. It's got a real operating room type feel. Like that bed is super high. The light is very bright. Yeah. Weird vibes over on the dozae planet.

Yeah. But she's like, hey listen, I'm going to kick it to you for real. The wine that you're here trying to buy doesn't exist in the kind of quantities you guys are trying to buy it in, but I can sell you information about who you can talk to to get that kind of quantity and it's only gonna cost you a little bit. The people you really need to talk to are the Karema, the main part of the Dominion. A group referred to so casually, it almost makes them forgettable.

Like, Quark and Pell are like, oh, well, that's cool. Thanks for the knowledge. Like, contrast that with how the Borg were introduced. Yeah. Where the threat was existential immediately, I really like how subtle they roll out the dominion in Deep Space Nine.

I think that this, your average viewer watching contemporaneous with the release would probably miss this entirely. And, yeah. Because I don't think that the dominion shit really pops off for a long time after this. Now. There's probably a bigger part of the Deep Space 9 series

than the work we're part of TNG in terms of like how many episodes there are about them. Right. But it's very subtle. Yeah, they weren't really a concern until season 3. So all along they've been suspecting that Zeck knows more about doing bizz in the gamma quadrant than he's been letting on.

And so Quark and Pell head back and Quark is like, hey dude, I actually found something out and he says, I could arrange a meeting between you and a powerful member of the dominion. This is what Zach was looking for and Zach is able to make a deal with Quark at this point. I'll see to it that you earn a percentage of every foringy opportunity in the Gamma Quadrant, which is a, which is probably just a dump truck of Latin, right? It also, like, if Quark is going to be instrumental in the business dealings in the Gamma Quadrant, it probably gives

Pell a little hope that they would reunite at some point because you get into a little bit of what Pell's whole plan was the whole time. Like Pell wants to go to the Gamma Quadrant so she can live free from the societal constraints of the Frangie and would love to be there with Cork. Pell is also shattered that Cork doesn't want to discuss what happened on the dosi planet and not only that actually Denies that it happened to begin with which is like profoundly hurtful for her. Yeah, he engages in an active Fish's make-out erasure

Right and which is something we've been on the receiving end on quite a bit in our lives. I'm sure yeah Him no didn't do that with him. You must be thinking of somebody else. I'm just squinting looking out in the middle distance thinking college. I'm squinting out in the middle distance thinking one or two years after college. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha R.M. has not been sitting on his hands in Quark's absence. One of the things he did was go toss Pell's quarters and find the low-blow-kid that she kept under her bed. The deal is that Fren any women have substantially smaller years than

uh, than male for any but still substantially larger years than humans. Ben, I feel like you and I have hidden things, things that we didn't want, uh, apparent to find a little better than the, than pale heights or her fake ear place at. better than the then pale heights or her fake ear place it. Like, rom fucking tosses the entire quarters in a fairly thorough manner. I was impressed by this. Yeah, but then they're just under the bed, right? Yeah, I feel like I check under the bed first. The the Vegas leaves and rom is like, Hey, dude, I got to tell you

something, man. And he pulls, he pulls Pell over it. And this is all shot like on wide angle with the super structure of the bar forming kind of a pristineum around it. Is the pristineum the space between the, the dick and the butthole? You know what that is? Yeah, it's like a pantomime that takes place

between the dick and the butthole. And it is very... Is that the place between your nose and your top lip? Yeah, that is. That's what you're thinking of. And it's very clear that ROM is putting Pell's business out in the streets and Quark has a fainting reaction to this. He gets the vapors.

One of those super fun falls out of frame, you know, into the waiting. It's not even out of frame, and it's out of the prasinium arch. Into the wings, he falls. For all of you out there drinking every time Ben says pricinium. Maybe have a buffer water around now. I guess you never took a theater class in college, Adam.

Sure didn't. So, yeah, I feel like all of the tension in the episode, like it's been building the entire time and this is like the 38 minute mark and all of the tension has to get now hashed out before the end of the episode. And it's a lot, like there's tension between quirk and rum, like rum has like a little bit of leverage on Quark now, which is

not great for Quark because he thinks his brother's an idiot. Not the secret keeper that Dax is certainly. No. Quark goes to Pell's quarters and finds her hanging out in Lady Format, right? Yeah. Yeah, he wanders over to Recondo and she's just chilling. And he's like, where are your lobes? To me, he's disgusted that she's breaking

Farenki cultural more as being a lady wearing clothes. And he's basically, he's like giving her a bunch of Latin and just saying, like, get the fuck out of my life. You've come very close to ruining me because if I am outed as a male for Angi who did business with a female for Angi, everything will end for me. This, like, the character of Quark who we have been asked to accommodate as one of our protagonists does something really nasty and seemingly pretty unforgivable here.

And it's not the first time that he's acted in a way that has felt unforgivable. It's a testament to his cult of personality that we continue to like him. Yeah, like the idea that he can be a sympathetic character after this scene is astonishing, but in the next scene, like, he kind of saves the cat. He, like, they go and talk to the negus and the negus is like, I'll see you at the you spend the rest of your life in prison. And Quark turns the, the like, accusation and recrimination right back around on him and says, like, hey, you did business with her too. Like, your hands are just as dirty as mine are in the scenario in which hands are being dirtyed by this. So you need to stop talking shit, Sec. Yeah, they all kind of feel like it's sort of the circular firing line of everyone

knows the same thing that could get each other person in trouble and not just in trouble, but like in prison for a very long time. And so knowing that, they agreed to keep the secret. Like it's talked about as though it's illegal, but we're on a Bedurin space station. Like it's only illegal on Ferengenar. It is not in fact illegal out here. I feel like they could have written this in a different way where they're like, like what an interesting problem for the Ferenge to make for Oranguinar, it is not in fact illegal out here. I feel like they could have written this in a different way where they're like, like what an interesting problem for the Ferengy to make for themselves

if they say like, okay, like let's make a carve out in our code that it's okay outside of the home world for Ferengy women. And then that Ferengy women have this like incentive to emancipate themselves from foranginar and start like finding ways to sneak out. Wouldn't that be cool? And like, interesting storyline to start?

It would be, and it would be tied into the idea of whether or not Deep Space Nine is like an extradition free zone in this way. Like, the one character that we don't really get a lot of at all is Cisco in this episode. And I am sure that he would have some very organized thoughts on the matter. Right. And that's sort of what we don't get with a conflict of this type.

When it's Farengy versus Farengy. When it's loaf on the loaf crime. It is not articulated plainly. Yeah. So she takes her money and goes and Quark's interest in for rangi operations in the Gamma Quadrant is nullified by Zech and it's kind of just back to square one, right? Like everybody comes out behind.

Yeah, I mean, Quark has got to be pretty devastated that, you know, the potential profit that the Gama Quadrant represented has gone, but he seems to have made a sort of peace with it if it meant Pell's life as a free person has been spared? You know, I have some friends who, you know, either are from traditional cultures or whose parents are immigrants and they are from traditional cultures and they are kind of like quirk in this episode caught between the values of their parents and the values of the United States, and like who they marry is tremendously important to their parents. If you're Muslim, you have to

marry a Muslim, or if you're Jewish, you have to marry a Jew. That kind of faulty to traditional values that squashes the potential of a relationship between Pell and Quark is a real thing that happens. Quark, I think, really loves Pell and is to wrap up in his own traditional thoughts to accommodate the idea of being with a woman who defies a lot of those values. From our perspective, it sucks, but I imagine a lot of people identify with that, whether or not the specific values on display or something they identify with. Quirk appears to grieve for the profit that he's lost. But like as a viewer, I grieve for the growth

that he does not get to experience. Because I think Pell unlocks something about him that is super interesting to me, that I would like to see explored more. Like if we'd never see Pell again, it feels like a little bit of an opportunity lost to grow Quark's character outside of the gray area that he exists in right now. I totally agree. Like she goes to the Gamma Quadrant, like what if she turns up in a season, rich as fuck and powerful and like wielding

some kind of business empire over there? That would be great. Like if she goes over there and kicks ass and returns, that would be a greater threat than Pell represents in this episode. Agree. Give her the reentry into the show like Vashgot. Yeah.

Did you like this episode, Ben? Pfft. Boy, as hard as it is for me to say this about a Ferenke's episode, I kind of did. I mean, I don't love the way it's resolved, but it's fun to see a show have a character like Quark that is repugnant in a lot of ways and really dig into what makes him tick and like they do they make they have quirk do things that are really deeply unlikable in this episode and they also have them have little glimmers of moments where you could see his

potential as a good person and you know he seems very human suddenly at this in time, I think he's the most interesting character on the show and I don't think it's close. Like he, he does as we've said before, he does contemptible things. But he also, uh, he lives by a code that keeps him from, from going fully dark. A man has got to have a code. The good things that he does often go completely unseen. Like he gets caught doing almost everything wrong. But very few people catch him doing right. That's true.

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Did you find yourself a drunk? My Shimoda comes from that very first scene mourn sleeping on the bench They're finding a way to grow mourn's character five seconds at a time Yeah, really like that. No dialogue always always just a thing he is up to. I know all of his scenes have, at some point, had to have been put together into sort of a mourn reel. Not gonna ruin myself by watching that right now, but I look forward to the idea of all these little snippets being put together

into a greater mourn story. But this particular chapter in that story, I got a real kick out of. He's like the Mervin's guy outside the store that isn't open yet. He just needs to get into Corks and I love that. Yeah, it's dude same. I wrote down Maureen and you described exactly why. I also just love getting a nice close up on Maureen, you know?

Like a nice tight shot of Maureen's face is something, you know, he's generally deep in background and it was fun to like really like get a good look at how that loaf works. His face is like stone. It never moves at all. So all of his expression is through the eyes. I think that's a magic trick. I really appreciate it. See what Dex season him. Yeah. What do we have coming up on the next episode? The next episode of season two, episode eight, necessary, evil.

An attack on Quarx life brings Odot face to face with a five-year-old, unsolved murder for which Kira was a prime suspect. Or as our friends at the Netflix corporation have it, a beautiful, bejure and woman calls Quark to Bejure and persuades him to retrieve a strong box that her husband kept hidden on Deep Space 9. Man, that Netflix subscription makes it seem like it's going to be a Quark episode. The Amazon one makes it seem like it's either gonna be an Odo episode or a Cura episode. Get it together guys. Yeah.

Gotta get on, gotta get on the same page with these caps. You wanna see in what condition we will be watching this episode? I do. You're required to learn as you play. Roll. I've put the die into the back amin cup and I've thrown it on the table. My roll is two, Ben. Tula! Did I win? Hardly.

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