The Greatest Generation - The Kanar 3 Meeting Room (DS9 S5E25)

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

When Jake hatches a plan to cheer his dad up, it becomes a teachable moment for Nog to explain why money is good. But when the Noh-Jay Consortium is outbid, what seemed like a simple trip to the village store becomes a nearly interminable item-collection quest. What’s the last part of the brain to die from oxygen deprivation? How does one identify Jeffrey Combs in public? How many loyalty points does Weyoun earn for his stay at DS9? It’s the episode where the A storyline really seems like it’s a B storyline.  Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Prophets! Support the production of The Greatest Generation. Music by Adam Ragusea & Dark Materia  Follow Adam and Ben on Twitter, and discuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestGen! Facebook group | Subreddit | Wiki Sign up for our mailing list!

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I'm Adam Pranaka. I'm Ben Harrison. Adam, I am a bit of a Borg right now. Yeah. He's a Borg. Oh no! Oh! We got board right now. Yeah. He's a board. Oh no! Oh! We got the board!

Yeah. In what way? I mean, most episodes, you're an emotionless automaton. But in a way... Is that what we... In my reputation. In what way are you not that today? I'm semi-cybronetic right now.

I've got diodes attached to my chest. I've got a, I've got a device dangling off them. I'm I'm I forget what this thing is called but I I have it's like an EKG that I wear 24 hours a day and I'm supposed to wear it for a week because I recently had like a big health scare. because I recently had like a big health scare. Wow, man. This relates to your falling down, does it not? Oh yeah, when we were on tour, I think it was in Houston.

I passed out in our Airbnb at one point, not from drinking. I found you on the floor, clutching your pearls. This was just after I told a dirty joke. That was just morally outrage. Yeah. No, I, so I was on, I was flying to France to visit my folks for the holidays with my lovely wife.

And I, I was like trying to, trying to get myself to sleep, which is not easy for me on an airplane, but I was getting ready for bed and I was fumbling around trying to get the air. You know that little nipple of air that you get up on the ceiling of the airplane? Oh yeah, you got to tweak the air nipple to get satisfaction. So I was

trying to turn that on and I couldn't figure out how to do it. And I thought, Oh, this must be some new kind of plane that has like a different, it's not just a knob that you turn. So I called the, I pressed the button for the flight attendant to come. And by the time the flight attendant came, I was like, Oh, I'm losing consciousness. And I told him I was in like medical distress and I couldn't see. And then apparently about five minutes transpired, but I woke up. I had the oxygen mask on and I had the blood pressure cuff around my arm. I was surrounded by doctors. Pretty uncomfortable situation, it sounds like.

Were you covered in your own piss and shit? I managed to avoid evacuating everything, so that was good. God, you're so lucky. But I think maybe more than anything that has ever happened to me, this has been a series of events that expose How addicted I am to doing bits Bits, bits, bits You're always doing bits, bits, bits

You're always doing bits, bits, bits I doing bits bits. I was doing bits bad bit moment bad bit moment Are you so our Marin today after that kind of run up is a is a Benjamin R. Here's a bad bit moment. Yeah Wow some of these are good bit moments, but like among, I'm coming out of losing consciousness and it was not easy because my wife also had a panic attack in reaction to this because she was woken up and you know, woken up by a flight attendant and a bunch of doctors who were telling her that her husband was, you know, not well. But if you tell me she was also doing bits

in the middle of a panic attack, I'm just not going to believe you. You've met my wife, she wasn't doing bits. No. But one bit I did in this moment was, hey, the bag inflates because they put one of those airplane oxygen masks on me, you know, the yellow cup with the elastic band and the bag. When they tell you specifically not to worry about not inflating, the bag and fleets,

Adam, it fits, fits, fits. No matter what. Wow. Nobody thought that was funny or amusing. You know, ask any medical professional and they'll tell you the bit portion of the brain is the last to die from oxygen deprivation. Yeah, yeah.

That's, it's sub reptile brain. Yeah, yeah. The bit brain is. So you know how like we always complain about people that put their feet up on airplanes? Oh, yeah. And like you'll see videos of people who use the the IFE with their toes, like hit buttons and stuff. Yeah.

They, because they wanted more oxygen to get to my brain, I was in a bulkhead seat, and they actually had me put my feet up on the bulkhead. Hey, what airline was this? This was a Delta flight. Hey, hey Delta, big fan, medallion guy over here. You know what a great way is to get a person's feet up to get more oxygen to their head Move them up to first You think that isn't worth an upgrade well first class was fully booked

But actually somebody that had a row of three seats was very kind and offered me their their row of three and And I laid down for the rest of the flight. And I was fine. You know what would have been great is if there was a seat open in first, what your wife would have done had you been moved up first for a medical reason, and how you and I both know that both of our wives would not have been okay with that. Yeah, that would have been a silent issue. Yeah, that would have been a silent, a gist. They would have expected a chivalrous gift of first. Yeah.

But why don't you take it? So all these doctors told me I need to get to a cardiologist when I get back to the states. And because there were doctors on board that tended to you, yeah? Yeah. And, and you know, like there were some concerning signs. Like I had an undetectable pulse. Uh, you know, I was not well on this flight. The question on everyone's mind is, uh, did you have the fish as the in flight meal

been? Uh, I hit the chicken and when my wife started to like show signs of her panic attack I was like oh man like there might be something in the food and this is like and then like the people in the row behind us in like you know 45 seconds are going to start to experience their symptoms and then it'll just be like a cascade back to the back of the plane. No, no. It just turns into a barf plane by an emergency approach. Yeah, I could see the flight attendant contemplating the ramifications of that possibility. Oh, God.

And there's just not enough barf bags. And there's just not enough, barf bags. But we landed and I was fine and we got back to the States. And I had an EKG at my general practitioner, which was abnormal. And they said, you need to get to the cardiologist as soon as you can. And so we go to the cardiologist. And this was a new GP. So I had to fill out like a whole medical history with the GP and then do it again the next day

at the cardiologist's office. So it was just like, it was a lot of jumping through medical bureaucracy hoops. And take, take time. Yeah. And the cardiologist is asking me about my drinking habits when she is like taking my medical history.

And I don't see what that has to do with this. I told her, did my wife put you up to this? Well, so your wife actually put me on to something that I have adapted in my life, which is don't drink on weekdays. Like just save it for the weekend. Like have you fun on the weekend, but on weekdays, like knock it off with the drinking? And that's actually good. Yeah, I believe that's called binge drinking.

That's what I told her I do. I said, I try not to drink on weeknights, I do. I said, I don't, I try not to drink on on weeknights, but I will have, you know, five or six drinks, you know, over the course of a weekend. And the cardiologist said, well, that, uh, that is actually not advisable. You should try and spread it out, you know, over the course of a week. And I said, well, but then I can't get totally obliterated. All I do with this, this, bits. No matter what. Big laugh from the cardiologist when I said that. It was pregnant, by the way. Wow.

Yeah, so you know she was missing it. Yeah, yeah. She liked the bit. And then just a couple days ago, I went in to get this thing attached to my chest, but I also had an echocardiogram, which I didn't know that this was different from an EKG because I just assumed that EKG was a bad abbreviation for echocardiogram, but echocardiogram is like a sonogram.

It's got the same inverted wedge thing that you see when a pregnant lady has the sonogram on her belly. Did they loop up that chest? They looped up my chest. The med tech was putting the little wand onto my chest and I put my hand on his wrist and I said, before you do, please don't tell me the sex.

I want it to be a surprise. Oh, that do it. bits, bits, bits. No matter what. Huge pop from the Medtech, which I could not believe. I was like, as I was saying it, I was like, God, this is so fucking hack. This guy hears this every single time he does this. To his credit, gave me a big, big pop.

Ah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Wow. Wow. Wow. You're the medical community's best friend. They love this kind of patient, I bet. You know what I realized in retrospect? The cardiologist is dealing with patients who are nervous,

so their heart is beating faster. So they're probably always getting slightly skewed data, right? They-hmm. They probably have training to just put people at ease. Laugh at their idiot jokes. You think that's what it is? Yeah. Well, I mean, by saying that you're saying that there's a chance you might have not been legitimately funny. Oh, Adam, I assure you, I am not legitimately funny. Wow. And that brings us to our show. Yeah. Our hit comedy show. I'll tell people before we go, that I've received the results of all but one of these tests.

And the results have been very good. Like all my blood work came back good. My echocardiogram, the results were within normal parameters. And it does not look like I have a heart condition. So far, the best guess on the part of my doctors is that I had something called a vasovagal syncopy, which is just, I got too hot on the plane and I passed out. Wow.

Yeah. So I feel very lucky to be to be saying that right now. I was genuinely really terrified for a couple of weeks and like contemplating what life was going to be like if I had discovered that I had like a really bad heart condition or something like that. If I was like forbidden from traveling in the future or given some kind of amount of time to

get my affairs in order or whatever. And I was genuinely really terrified and feeling all of the feelings about that. And so I don't want to make light of the real shit people go through. And I feel very lucky to have So far been given very good news by the doctors, but But yeah, I'm I'm really glad to hear that. I'm glad you ended your story with that I was gonna say man tell the people With the prognosis is don't just leave them hanging. I make jokes as a defense mechanism at him I definitely get that.

Yeah, I mean, a little behind the pod is a lot of people were very worried for you for a long time and were relieved that at this point, your prognosis is good. Though I must admit, I did contemplate a show life without you and look pretty good. Oh, I do with it. It's it's it. No matter what.

Finally, this thing gives up the lead weight that's been holding it back. I considered who would be a worthy replacement for you, a medical replacement for you on the show. Did you have, I would love to, because I thought about this too, like who would replace me on friendly fire and He would replace me on greatest Jen and I thought maybe maybe that's different people

I yeah, I thought a ton about this and here's what I came up with I would solo host greatest Jen And I would talk twice as much on friendly fire wow So so irreplaceable is what I would consider you been if you talked twice as much on friendly fire. Wow. So irreplaceable is what I would consider you, Ben. If you talked twice as much on friendly fire, you'd be almost a third of that show. I know. Yeah, it's true. That's not even a joke. That's just a cold truth. That's just math, baby. Yeah. Well, I'm glad to be stuck with you for a long, long time, Ben. In all sincerity, I'm glad things are going fine. Are we going to hear any beeps from your end with this heart walkman you're wearing?

Or is that going to leave us alone for the duration of the show? It beeps if I push the button. And there's a button is, if I push the button, I'm supposed to write down in a diary, like what symptoms I was experiencing. And I have been trying to keep that. If I get up and I feel lightheaded, I have pushed the button and written that down a couple of times. How many molasquinas have you filled with your diary entries? I mean a few, but a lot of it is

that when I, you know, go to give my dog a hug, Hill often put his paws on my chest and accidentally push it. So there you go. Dog-induced beeping. Yeah. He makes my heart skip a beat. I love that guy. Ah, ah. Well he knows as well as I do, there's no replacing you. Let's see if the episode we're going to talk about today is replaceable. We'll save that part for the end as we begin discussing Deep Space 9 season five episode 25 in the cards. Do you realize how many? What about this season? No, of course you've done. You know that feeling when you're at a dinner with a bunch of boomers and they want to talk

about the news of the day and you're just thinking about the future that they have foreclosed on and what a nightmare it is and how little you want to talk about it with them. You know that feeling at them? That's sort of the feeling at the beginning of this episode. What do you want Julian? A war what I want is to talk about something. It might as well be today. No one's having fun at the Captain's dinner party,

but maybe that's because he's serving slug guts again. Do you think he's still on that forengi recipe kick? It's another very indistinct plate of food. It could just be like that snack mix that you get in an Asian grocery store. That's kind of what it looked to me like on the plates. Just kind of miscellaneous small objects. There's also a bottle of like calvados or something going around, but it does not seem to be putting people in nicer spirits.

Yeah, it looks like there's real booze flowing, and you'd think it would be a little more, booze flowing and you think it would be a little more, I don't know, festive or jovial, but it just can't feel that way because they've lost another ship. This rate we're gonna run out of ships. Well, that's not funny. It wasn't meant to be. And this isn't the first of many.

Like, this is happening all the time. And furthermore, there's like hoarding and looting of supplies on the station. Like they sort of go around the table sharing their awful news. The news is not good. I've just learned that my final words were back to you, Linda. Politics sucks to talk about, and this is the eve of war, you know. They can all tell that the trends are not looking good. Odo had a vacation planned and he's canceled it, you know, everything, everything's a nightmare.

Have you ever had a dinner party go bad? And like, what did you do to save it? Like, do you have any secret weapons socially for, for redeeming a vibe like this? I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. It seems pretty tough to say.

If even Captain Cisco doesn't even try, he's like the best he can think of is just letting the crew go, thinking that they're staying out of some sort of obligation. You know that the admonitions we've made to leave without saying goodbye at parties. I've done that at my own parties before. Sometimes that's the solution. Admonitions we've made to leave without saying goodbye. Yeah. I've done that at my own parties before. Sometimes that's the solution. It's just like lock up on your way out. I've done.

That's stone cold, but I respect it. Yeah. I mean, this is a fucking bummer. Jake and Nag were trying to work as like waiters, I guess. Cisco asks them to leave on the same, you know, like I'm not feeling this, you guys got to go. And then as they leave, Cisco gets a radio from ops that Kai-Win is going to be visiting the station. News of Kai Wynne's impending arrival is apparently not the antidote for depression. Indeed, it isn't. This is shitty hat on top of shitty hat.

How can it get any worse? The big fecal enchilada. Anyone else hungry? What I like about Noggin Jake here is that they're sort of dismissed from the dinner party and they go straight to the bar and I love a kind of secret second location that they've hatched here like dinner party sucked but it doesn't have to be the end of the night. Let's go to Quarx. Did you think that they were drinking a root beer in this scene or are they drinking something stronger? I mean, the assumption is root beer with them,

but yeah, that's what my guess was. Because this is the first time we've heard them talk about being drunk in an episode. So I wondered if they're old enough now or whatever. What do you think the drinking age is? I don't know. Like, is it one thing for Synthahal and another thing for real alcohol? How could you prescribe to any kind of drinking age when you have a bar full of aliens for

whom, like maturity is a totally different amount of time, right? That's true. Yeah, maybe it's a little more continental in that way. It's just like, you know, like whatever, whatever man, it doesn't matter. It's like Germany. Yeah, you can drink at any age. It's the continent's the way. And it's peraged. The deal at Quarxes that there's going to be an event the next day. It's going to be an auction and this auction is going to be of items found from an old Bejure and derelict freighter, but not the freighter itself. I was waiting for them to drive up that freighter at the auction. Oh, that would have been cool.

Like a classic car auction, you see on TV sometimes. Yeah, so if kind of win is not the antidote for depression, maybe a Mickey Manel baseball card is. Right, because Quark has a pad with all the items that they've recovered from this thing, and Jake locks onto this right away. I feel like Quark should just be using eBay. Like, how is gathering a few people in the bar at DeFiS9 a better way to generate revenue from this shit than putting it out on the worldwide web for everyone to bit on?

I don't know, it seems like it's a pretty limiting move. I don't actually sell anything here. I just sell them on eBay. Yeah. Quark is not the greatest business man of all time. We get a pretty funny conversation. Hold up a second. We need to say this.

The reason Jake wants to get himself this 51 willy maize as he wants to give it to his dad. He wants to make him feel better. He thinks it's going to be the only way to lift his spirits. I'm pretty sure I made that point with my whole antidote for depression construction. Yeah, that seems overly complicated. Are you insulting the intelligence of our listeners? Depression isn't cured with with physical

Possessions man. I don't disagree. I think he's doing I'm talking about the premise of the episode man Yeah, yeah, I mean Here's the thing about this episode you may believe that this storyline is the B But let me disabuse you of that right now. This is the a fucking story and we are we are strapped into it until the bitter end It's baseball card time. It's baseball card time and we got a big conversation between Jake and Nag about how they're gonna get this card and Jake is trying to Convince Nag to Give him all the money Nag has to bid on this card, because humans don't have money, Adam. They have no need for it. They've moved to a non-monetary economic system.

We work to better ourselves in the rest of humanity. I love that Jake quotes chapter and verse, what Picard says in first contact, O'Leary. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. It's like the pledge of allegiance. Like everyone knows it, everyone knows how to say it. Everyone has this answer for when a Ferengy asks you about your weird culture. Like, it's great.

And even Jake, like even Sirac Lofton, like the spin he puts on his line reading, it feels, it feels practiced and tiring for him in a fun way. Yeah, I really liked it. And I also really liked how he started to, money may not be a thing, but value is. And he starts to manipulate Nog's allegiance to Cisco as a locus of value manipulate Nog's allegiance to Cisco as a, you know, as a locus of value

until Nog admits that doing a magnanimous thing for the guy that got him into Starfleet Academy is a valuable act. Yeah, I guess what always has power, no matter what century you're in. A guilt trip. So much of this story is crazy, but Nog's five bars of Latinum represents his entire life savings, which is an interesting bit of calculus here. Like, I think up until now it's been hard to gauge the relative worth of what a bar is. Like, we know what a bar is compared to a strip, for example, but a life savings adding up to five bars, I think is relatively new information. I mean, how old is Nog?

You think Nog is getting strips in every birthday card from Mugi, and he saves up those checks. I'm like, postage, do you need to put on an envelope of your including strips of Latin? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Like at a certain point it cuts into the overall value of the Latin, right? Yeah. You never see those bars in this episode by the buy. Yeah. That's true. Are they even real? Who knows, man? They're just paid lip service. Those bars of Latin are like the Canadian girlfriend that Nogz always talking about.

It goes to a different school. Yeah, you wouldn't know her. They're going to prom together, you'll meet her then. Well, too bad they broke out right before prom. Mmm. Gold to cotton, the cup, gold to cotton. So, Cisco gets a visit from Kai when she is there to tell him that she's going to be meeting with the Dominion tomorrow at the invitation of the Dominion. Kind of surprising that the Dominion can just reserve a meeting room on deep space nine.

Yeah, they reserve the Kenar 3 meeting room. You know, it's not as big as Kenar 1, but what you do is you take Kenar 1 and you roll the partition through it. You store that partition in the wall. It's a nice deal because you just pay one flat fee and they provide coffee and water and you get access to the business Wi-Fi. It's not like the... It comes as at a reduced rate too when you book a room at Deep Space Nine. It's not as expensive as if you aren't.

Right. You throw in the catering and it's very synergistic. You get those little sandwiches brought out during lunchtime. Yeah. The federation might not have monetary units, but they do have points. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You get for staying at their stations. Yeah, you're learning, earning a lot of IHG rewards points for it. Uh-huh.

Yeah, she's not totally sure what the, what the meeting's about. And Cisco wants to warn her, making an alliance with these guys right before this war breaks out, is not necessarily the greatest idea what with all the political intrigue they're known for. And Kai Wynn pulls out her driver's license and shows him that it's literally Kai political intrigue win is her official government name. She's so mean to him. She's like, she's like, apropos of nothing. She's like, yeah, all my favorite chops have moved out. Something wrong, human.

The hat shop I used to shop at on the promenade, where that place go. Yeah, I'm stuck with this hat. Most people think this hat is dumb. This goes like, yeah, all the good hat shops moved out. Once this unstable element moved into town. Yeah. You know, Cisco is saying he and the federation

take Badger's safety really seriously, but she is in a position where she's not so sure. And so she's gonna hear these guys out. We very quickly cut to this auction that we were promised. We've got no time for this political intrigue storyline. Gotta get back to the space ball card story. And Quark as auctioneer, I think serves that position pretty well. He's trying to goose the action, but I think the problem is you can only fit like 20 people inside quarks. So there's not a lot of action and the energy is really low too.

The stuff he is auctioning off just doesn't seem that great as was already observed by Jake and Nag. Like this is mostly kind of junky stuff, but the baseball card is actually not being auctioned off by itself. It's being auctioned off as part of a lot. There's like a chest with a bunch of items inside of it. And Jake and Nog are pretty confident that they're going to get out of here for about two bars of platinum. However, they did not count on one person

starting to bid up the value of this chest pretty aggressively. 6,500 to the dark head person on the right. It's a real JFK golf club situation, isn't it? I suppose it is. A bid is 10 bars of gold, press, platinum. Is there another bid? The bid gets to 10 before they know it, and that is twice as many bars as Nog has access to.

So, so they're out. She was kind of a head fake for me. I thought for sure what would happen is Nog would over bid with money he didn't have, and that would be the story. Right. He's in debt and in over bid with money he didn't have. And that would be the story. Like, he's in debt and in the court for money he doesn't have. Yeah, I was, I was actually very surprised that the scene ended the way it did. They're outbid by a real start track that guy. This guy was foreign in that episode of TNG where worse brother,

Nikolai Rijenko was relocating a colony in the holodeck. Oh! Remember him? He was like the historian of the primitive people that Nikolai Rijenko had taken up with. How about that? And yeah, he gets the crate and Jacob Nagdunat. Oh, isn't that a couple of Voyager episodes

that he's definitely alumni. He's that guy alumni. Yeah, I read that he and Jeffrey Combs are the only two actors in Star Trek history to play two different characters in the same episode. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, so we will have more encounters with this character actor. I'm sure Jeffrey Comes is pissed at this guy.

You don't want to come for that throne. Yeah. Jeffrey Comes is the king. You and I were recently in a bar that Jeffrey Comes was also in. Yeah, it's true. I ordered a drink right next to him and I pulled a Benjamin R. Harrison. I didn't talk to him. You didn't say it?

He was at the bar itself. Yeah. Because when I was ordering my drink, he was at a table with some people. So I didn't want to go be table interruption guy. I mean, I wasn't sure because let's be honest. How do you know it's Jeffrey Cums? I'm not talking to him.

He's a man of a thousand faces. You see if he's got a little latex makeup still stuck to his forehead. Yeah, it's impossible. I wouldn't want to, I would have been very embarrassed to have introduced myself to someone who is not Jeffrey Combs. Hey, are you Jeffrey Combs by any chance? There was, I was in a coffee shop recently and I saw a lady that I thought might have

been a girl I went to kindergarten with and I didn't, I didn't ask just for the same reason. Like, like, chances are it's not. God, what do you know? I don't think I remember anyone from before middle school, like anyone. Well, I went to the same school from kindergarten through eighth grade. So Everyone I went to kindergarten with I went to middle school with. God. I feel like I feel like my brain is filled with lingo leers like just chewing up time writing over it. Wow. So they follow this guy down the hallway.

And he is not interested in talking to them about parting with this baseball card. He is very angry, I would say. Like he seems to be like hate walking his newly bought auction prize back to his apartment. He accuses them of being solace minions of orthodoxy and then gets on the elevator and tells them to fuck right off. Yeah, I mean anytime you're called a solace minion of anything, I don't think it's a good sign if you're looking to negotiate. Yeah, I mean it's one step up from being called a nettering nae-bob of negativism. Tell you what, when he dismisses them saying something like,

the only laws I've broken are the laws of nature. That sounds pretty pervy to me, T-B-H. I'd probably give this guy a wide berth if I were Jake and Doug. Why don't you sit over there? Like there's clinking from inside his little trunk, it's just full of Mike's hard-limit aid. And what's going on here seems pretty pervy, doesn't it? That's why it looks so heavy.

Yeah. Why don't I step out of it? I was in a pair. I'm fucking in pain. Mr. Bucket, I have to reverse. Back to my dead state. Oh, I don't use the bucket anymore. Back to the B story line, a jumbo tick shows up and way you and a couple of gem-headars walk through the airlock, treated by Cisco. I was gonna surprise that the gem-headars weren't asked to give up their guns in this scene.

Right. I guess honestly, I think the head cannon here is like, it doesn't matter. They know they're overmatched. The tick could destroy the station at any moment and it just chooses not to, right? Well, that's the thing about the dominion. if the tick wanted to just set self-destruct while it was docked at the pylon, it could and would. Like nobody on board is going to be sad to die for the dominion. Right. Right. So there's an interaction here between Cisco and Wayune that I wanted to interrogate with you a little bit.

And I think it represents a lot about the relationship between anyone that Jeffrey Combs plays and any of our main characters. Because Cisco in this scene is a hard ass with him. He doesn't wanna be friends, even though Wayune is super psyched to be on the station, to have more interactions with Ben Cisco. He's being nice.

And I wonder, and in this scene, I was anti-Ben Cisco. I was like, Ben, Cisco, why are you being such a jerk to way in? He's being nice to you. And I think that comes from a quality of acting here. Like I almost think that if you cast wayoon with a different actor, you may feel the way that you're supposed to feel about this. But instead, I am manipulated because of Jeffrey Combs into being on his side when I shouldn't be. It's like fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on you, fool me three times,

like you're f***ing dead to me. Is that how you feel when you see this interaction? Or are you pro-Bansisco? I think the charisma that Jeffrey comes brings to the character makes this tension fun. And if it was a less charismatic performer, you would be a thousand percent sisco, you know? It's weird like all the different ways that threat can be embodied because like a Golducat is charismatic, but he appears more threatening than way you never does because way you know is just like gleeful. Right. But no less threatening.

I mean, Ducat has one cure over for brief moments over the course of the series. So yeah, you know, I think it is a really interesting quality that way you slash Jeffrey Combs has. And I think it is challenging in scenes like this. And I think that's a good thing. But enough about this boring, boring B story. Adam, let's talk about the A story. Let's, let's talk about a story without any subtext at all. The baseball card story.

Still want this card. It was not the card that Dr. Geiger, our friend, was bidding on the case for. There was something else in the case that he wanted. A 23rd century ion transstator. So, Noggin Jake, go pitch him on, what if we just buy this card from you? And, you know, this guy knows leverage when he sees it. We would like to open the negotiations with a bid. The card is not for sale. He says, I don't want your money.

What I do want is this list of things. You can go get this list of things for me. I will give you the card and they're like, great, great, great. Okay, we'll just go get that list of things and they're like turning to God the door when they're like, but wait, what are you gonna use these things for? Because you have a lot of weird, beepy, boopie equipment in here. This guy was suspicious right away to me. You should never trust a man with a tanning bed. Yeah, everybody knows that's gonna give you skin cancer, you know?

He's like 50. What are you doing with a tanning bed? Yeah, come on, man. Gotta take better care of your skin. But he goes off on this rent. He is a bit of a mad scientist type. He is set his sights on cheating death. And the way he would like to do that is by perfecting his cellular regeneration and entertainment

chamber because he has determined that it is the drudgery of mitosis that causes cells to eventually give up and die. Why should any of us end up as putrefying corpses in wooden boxes stuck in the ground, or vaporized into subatomic particles and vented into the cosmos like a bad case of gas? It's an amazing theory. I'm ready to believe it. He makes a very persuasive argument that it is cellular boredom that causes death.

I'm pretty sure that that's definitive. Yeah, yeah. He's kind of a crackpot. And even to the extent that Jake and Nog do that thing where they're like, hey, we're going go talk over here for a second. Yeah. And they're like, they're in hushed tones talking about what a whack job he is. Hey, this guy's pretty crazy, right? This is a moment consistent with an earlier scene between Jake and Nag. Where they're talking about Jake not having any money. What Dr. Geiger wants to do is horse trade. Horse, earth horse.

He doesn't want money for the card. He wants stuff for the card. Yeah. And this sets it in motion, a sort of a vintage no-j series of hijinks. It's a, you know, they're pitching Chief O'Brien. I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. I'm getting them one of these objects and they wind up promising to do some calibrations

that he has to do on his behalf and to free him up to get them whatever the thing is. I only work. They promise to get Dr. Bershear's teddy bear back from Lita in order to get something from him. A cook of what? A cook of Laka. Which gives us probably the creepiest scene in the history of the show, which is Nog, like smegle fingering over Lita to try and snatch this teddy bear from her sleeping arms. I mean, I envy how deeply Lita sleeps, but good Lord, if you know you're a deep sleeper

like that, I think you got to put a chain over the ventilation shaft. Yeah, when she goes to bed, she does the chain lock on the door and then she goes down to the ventilation. She often does the chain lock on that also. It's interesting the thing that we know from this series of vignettes is that labor always has value because what Jake and Nagar trading in exchange for these things are like doing favors

that other people are unwilling or unable to do for a variety of reasons. Can't automate that. Wake up, sheeple. Yeah, try taking those jobs. I'm a rain, come to a fore, I'm a rain, come to a fore, I'm a rain, come to a fore, come to a fore, what are you doing?

Come to a fore, what are you doing now? Come to a fore, I'm a rain, come to a fore, What are you doing? What are you doing now? I'm not be guard, I'm not be guard, I'm not be guard, I'm not be guard. We got a brief scene between Cisco and Kai-Win and Kai-Win tells Cisco that what why you and has proposed is a non-aggression pact between Beijor and the dominion. And this is tough news for Cisco because there's not really like he can't offer her a better deal because if a war breaks out, he can't really promise her that Beijor will be a thousand percent safe. Only the dominion can promise that. I was waiting and waiting for Chiwin to drop the bomb

that she eventually does. She correctly points out that it was Cisco himself that prevented the first time Beijor attempted to join the Federation. And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about, man? Like, this is basically your fault anyway. I love that. But even if they had, he wouldn't be able to promise

major safety, you know? Yeah. Like, it's... But it is a neat destabilization of that conversation, though. Really, I think it puts this go off balance. Yeah, I mean, I think that... Like, it's a really interesting episode about how resources are finite. And even in a post-gearcity

utopia resources are finite. And it puts her character in a really interesting position too, because she very explicitly got into the business of being Kai for the power, not for the responsibility. being Kai for the power, not for the responsibility. And now the responsibility is on her shoulders and she is bad at it. And it's one of the most humble moments we've gotten from her because she just turns to Cisco and says, how can I save Bejor? Like, what do I do?

You tell me. Tell me what to do and I will do it. Yeah, and neither Avenue seems particularly good. She can either align with the Federation, in which case Bejor would be the first planet to fall, or if you take the Dominion route, they'd survive, but they'd be under Dominion rule, which would feel, I think, a lot like Cardassian rule.

And it's already Team Cardassia. Yeah. So, Cisco's advice is to stall for time. It's the third leg of this decision, which I think is pretty great. He's like, war hasn't happened yet, and we don't know when it will. There's no downside to stalling here. Why don't you just wait it out for a little bit longer and see if there's another path that reveals itself.

I like this advice. I do too. It's a strategy I like to employ in my own life. Why make a decision now when you can make one much, much later? I'm all for it. Yeah. So at this point, Dr. Geiger has gotten a lot of the crap that he wants, but not all of it. He starts to install stuff that Jake is delivering to him into his, into all his machinery and the machinery, you know, powering up starts to really make a hell of a racket.

And we get a pretty fun like pan up through the ceiling and the upstairs neighbors that Dr. Geiger has been unfortunate enough to get is wayune and the gym had our who booked these rooms like when they checked in, you gotta know what you're doing, right? When you when you put wayune and co above the weird doctor, when you're the doctor and you're checking in with Ensign hospitality, you put, you know, your $20 bill down on the on the desk at the at the check in and say,

Hey, I'd love to be as far away on the station from any gym hadar as possible. I'd love to take care of you. I mean, just inch inch that $20 bill toward them. And then, Ensign Hospitality says, sir, I can't accept any money for that kind of thing. You know, way you know is an IHG Latina member. Like, how is it that he doesn't have his choice of rooms? Who says he doesn't? That might, you know, that upper floor might be all the good rooms. Is he bunking with the gem-hidar? Like, like, is he, is he two queen beds guy?

I think that he summoned the gem-hidar to scan. All right, that makes sense. Do gem-hidar sleep? Or does he just have him go and do? I think I do. I think I do. I think I do. I think I do.

I think I do. I think I do. I think I do. I think I do. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, dude, even if they're invisible, I think I'd have a hard time sleeping. Yeah, because you're like, you're trying to, you're trying to ejaculate on the TV remote, and you're just like conscious of the fact that they're invisible, but in the room watching you. Rumots are for butts, Ben. They're not for eggs. They're not for shooting ropes onto. That's just gross. Parted me. I guess I've said too much.

God, the last couple of times I've been in a hotel, my remote just flat doesn't work. It never works. Yeah, because people like ejaculating on it, Adam. God, the, you're suggesting that the hotel remotes are too full of calm to operate properly? Yeah, I just thought they're a little heavier than they look. Yeah, they feel like snow globes. They feel wavy, full of liquid. So, Jake and Nog arrive with a second batch of crap for the doctor. And like kind of for the second time in the episode,

they walk into this room with their jaws dropped. But this time the camera pans around and the room is empty. It's not the mad scientist laboratory that they walked into the first time. And it's a there was never a Dr. Geiger even registered here. That means the large Marjoy was writing was, was...

Ergose! Right. Yeah, that's creepy knowledge. When they tell the story to Odo... Mr. Bunkett! Bunkett! Bunkett! It almost seems like the crime is there reporting a fake crime.

Because when Jake and Nag leave, Odo is there like, wow, we got threatened with false reporting and obstruction of justice. Yeah. It's not a good moment. They think they're doing a good thing, but they did a bad thing.

Odo is really quick to hand out these accusations. It's because when Jake explains the story of Dr. Geiger, he sounds as insane as Geiger did initially. That's true. So they realize that the person that they're gonna have to talk to is the Kai because the other person that was bidding for that baseball card was a Vedic and they've seen the Kai talking to that Vedic. So the Kai bids farewell to Wei Yu and she's like heading back to Bage or she sort of in her classic way doesn't commit to a final answer with Wei Yu on the whole non-aggression-packed idea because I guess she's going to go give advice to the

first minister about what to do. But declines to tell him what her advice will be. And she comes around the corner, there's Jake and Nug kind of like a nice chirobe there. Be ashamed if anything happened to him. I don't know what that means. This is a really fun sequence. You see this fairly often though, we get a surprise establishment opposing a couple of characters and then we cut to the consequence without seeing the argument that precipitated the consequence because we smash cut to Cisco's office and

he is howling mad. You accused the Kai of burglary and kidnapping? The captain explodes at the insult that they have leveled against the religious leader of the planet Bayshore are you trying to be funny cadet because I'm not laughing and this is a bad luck for Jake and dog I feel like you can make the case for what Jake is doing up until this point at which at and at this moment, it all flies apart because Jake is committed to the idea. Why are you apart then?

You know? Yeah. He's got to get that baseball card to make his dad happier. He's so committed to the idea that he maintains the cover-up because he wants to surprise his dad with it, and by telling him the truth in this moment, he would be ruining the surprise. Nog is like, when they leave this meeting, they're walking out into ops to the lift. And Nog is like, you need to get some perspective, man. Losing the trust of your father over this and ruining the diplomacy between Beijor and the federation, maybe isn't worth your gift idea.

And he's right. He's never been more right than this moment. No, yeah. And also, like, telling your dad that you and I got drunk and that's part of why this is all happening. Right. Yeah, I think that answers your root beer question earlier. Like, that was alive so they didn't get drunk.

Right. It was root beer. But a pretty intense thing to tell your dad is why you're acting like an idiot. Is root beer a suitable mixer for any liquor? I don't remember ever, like, it's not like Jack and Coke. I don't think I've ever had a Jack and root beer. Root beer float spiked with spiced rum

is one of the delightful adult beverages, Adam. I bet that's real good. Yeah. I bet that's real sweet, too. Doesn't have to be. You could put a lot of rum in. Oh yeah, that's what you do. It's just more booze. Yeah. Knock that sweetness back with more booze. So they're on this elevator arguing about what an idiotic play this was on Jake's part when they get transported over to the Super Tick. And yeah, they have a they have kind of like a like

waiting for the principal moment. And then way you comes in and sits at the desk. He's got the Aeron chair at him. That's the same chair that you and I use. Love that chair. Do you notice that Will Yoon is an Aeron user? I mean, he's a smart man. Yeah. He's lived a thousand lifetimes. I think you know from experience what a great, what a great seep the Aeron is. This tick is the hottest water that Jacob and I could find themselves in. And Will Yoon asks them to explain what their relationship is with Geiger because Wei-Yun has taken Geiger and all of his crap aboard the tick.

And he kind of scoffs at the dumb explanation that is the real explanation at first. Because he knows a lot about what Jake and Nag have been up to. He knows that they've been meeting with the senior staff. He knows that they met with Kai Wen right after way, you know, and did. And so Jake Pivitz to novelist explanation, which is, yeah, we're actually working with Starfleet Security. We're investigating the man whose picture is in your hand right now.

Until yesterday, that man, one willy-mayce, did not exist in any historical documents. There is a really neat magic trick that I've, that I really haven't considered before, which is a lie in proximity to the truth, makes the truth way more believable. Yeah. And that's what happens here in Wayeun's experience. He's like, well, that wasvable. Yeah. And that's what happens here in way in way you experience.

He's like, well, that was shit. Yeah. Uh, I guess I'm going to go with column A. I loved it because it's like, it's a pretty light and silly episode. But this lie that Jake comes up with is something I could see, Star Trek trying to make an episode out of that is so much sillier and more laughable that it retroactively makes the episode feel good.

Yeah, yeah. So Wei-Yoon picks Colomé, he gives him the baseball card, and lets him go. And then Wei-Yoon and Geiger are like hitting it off. I have a background, and shall we say, creative genetics, I'd be most interested in hearing your theories. Well, it may take some time to explain. I don't like Dr. Gaggers' chances of living a normal life

after this episode. I mean, there's no record of him on DS9. And so like he, I mean, if he never existed, what happens here doesn't qualify as a disappearance. He's just gone. He'll never be found. Nobody's going to come looking for him. Yeah.

But he gets back to deep space nine because we get like a captain's log as the button of the episode. And Cisco is reminiscing about how a couple of days ago, everybody was really bummed out about the politics. And suddenly morale has improved wildly, and we do a little montage of like going around the station, Chief of Bryan's had some time to do a little bit of kayaking, but she has got his bear back. Lita is the one bit of salt to bring out the sweet. She's pissed that the bear is missing. Kira has delivered her speech to the water conservation board.

It's gone great, because Jake wrote some bits for her. Wurf is enjoying his, his, calling on opera because the, you know, Nog has been able to improve the audio. Geiger has even got way in enjoying himself, showing him around the cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber. And Cisco's enjoying his baseball card. And yet we are still just as unwarrz doorstep as ever.

But it's the little things, right? It's a little comfort. It's the little comforts, you know. Yeah, did you like this episode, Ben? I spent a lot of this episode thinking I hated it and by the end I did like it. Yeah, yeah. I thought that was amazing.

I mean, clearly there's a lot to make fun of here. Yeah. But in the end, like in totality, it begs you not to take it seriously. And I think it's effective in that way. It's a self-consciously corny episode. But to a sweet end, you know, I really liked it. This was the first episode directed by Michael Dorn. Oh. I really liked it. This was the first episode directed by Michael Dorn.

Oh. The first of three that he will direct in DS9. I thought it was ably directed by him. I think it explains why you get very little wharf in the episode. I think I'm with you as far as whether or not I liked it, it is just a little piece of candy in this DS9 season five storyline that can be pretty serious

and bitter tasting, but this was just a little bit of a break here. That for some reason worked. I kind of like the red paperclip idea to this thing that you know you can chain some small favors together and create a solution to a problem when you don't have money to solve it. Yeah, that was cool. You know what else I think is cool, Adam? Our priority one message is, do you want to see if we have any? Hey, those take money to make happen.

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because he is like the Hans Landa in glorious bastards that way he is here. That interrogation scene. The villain that is full of zeal. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's that scene where he's interrogating Jake and Nag here that really solidified that for me. Like this interrogation is gentle and comedic.

And he has all the power and in fact it is lethal power. But you sort of forget that because he's so charming. I think he's just great. He's great in every scene. I don't know how many episodes at DS9 we have left. I hope as we bring the series to a close, there are a lot more episodes with Wei-Yu in them because he's just fantastic.

So he's my drunk Shimoto. What about you, Ben? I'm going to give my two Jake. There is probably the most unfortunate part of the episode is a little interchange between Jake and Nog when they're looking at Kai win up on the second level of the promenade talking to that Vedic and Jake says something about Nog says lions, geigers, and bears. And Jake says, oh my.

Really wish that wasn't in the episode. So Jake gets my drunks remote for that moment. I mean, it really should go to both, but if I had to pick, it's really more Jake's bad thing. Yeah. Jake said a bad thing. Yeah. Well, is there a good thing coming up in the next episode, Ben? What is the episode and how will we be watching it? The episode is season five, episode 26 of Deep Space Nine, and episode 300 of the greatest generation. Wow. 300. It's called a call to arms.

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Big one. Crazy bang to end season 5 on episode 300 of our show. I have no idea how that worked out, but... I mean, you'd probably, I mean, I know you're not a gambling man, but if you were, you'd have to bet everything that this is going to be a cliffhanger, right? Yeah, I'm pushing all my chips into the middle of the table. Got to push in, like your Ken Jennings or something. Yeah.

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