The Greatest Generation - Up Your Worf and Around the Corner (DS9 S5E3)

Episode Date: September 2, 2019

When Quark’s old flame returns to the station, Worf becomes the galaxy’s least likely dating consultant. But when the lady’s security detail decides the Ferengi is a threat, Worf will need to puppet Quark via harmonica holder. Is Major Kira a unicorn? What’s the worst movie to see on a first date? Are there any scenarios for which Quark doesn’t have a honey stick? It’s the episode with the sad drink and the happy drink.  Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Prophets! Support the production of The Greatest Generation.

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I'm Ben Harrison. I'm in a bit of a mood. Oh yeah, I can hear it in your voice. I can tell because you're ending your sentences going down. Yeah. We've gotten into a little habit where we record on Fridays, Friday afternoon is when we record the greatest generation. Yeah.

And we usually record two episodes if we can make it work. Sometimes it's one greatest discovery and one greatest gin. But sometimes it's one drunk a soda. Right. Yeah. Sort of context, context dependent. But oftentimes we record two episodes, and this is our second of two today. And I've also been getting into making myself a little special cocktail for the end of the week because I basically stopped drinking on weeknights, on school nights. I don't partake in spirits anymore. And this is mostly a weight loss thing. But I felt like it had other

ancillary positive benefits to my pocketbook, et cetera. But so Friday, it feels much more like the first evening of the weekend now than it has in a long time. And I've gotten into the habit of making myself a little special cocktail beverage but this is a this is a recipe that requires I prepare it the night before and put it in the freezer overnight. And I've done it for several weeks and a row now. And I've been just recently started to mess around and try to get some variation in it.

And my tweak this week did not work. So the texture is all wrong, it's too sweet. And I'm just bummed out. I've been working on this drink since Thursday. It's Friday. Tell me what's in it again. I miss I lost the thread at that point. So it is a Dacquery. It's a it's a it's the Dacquery that the guy from Booker

and Dax Dave Dave Arnold, I think is his name. He made this for a food and wine magazine, for a series of videos on there. As somebody who has long had aspirations to making interesting and cool cocktail videos, these Dave Arnold ones really fucking fill me with jealousy because he's like, he's so good at making cocktails. And like, the videos are perfectly fine. There's nothing like from a video standpoint to distinguish them at all, but he always makes something really cool and interesting in them. And his frozen daiquiri, you mix all the ingredients together and you freeze them in the freezer in a ziplock bag overnight so that it comes out real slushy.

But if your ratios are wrong and there's too much alcohol, they won't freeze up. I don't know what I did wrong as part of what's frustrating me here. I went with a dark rum instead of a white rum this time and I went with a terminado sugar syrup instead of a plain old simple syrup. It didn't freeze up. It was a bag full of liquid when I pulled it out of the freezer just now.

Well, I think we know what happened here. You're the commenter on the recipe site that says, my recipe didn't turn out because I didn't follow the instructions. Well, yeah, I'm making all kinds of substitutions, man. I know, but I've made other modifications to this and it didn't mess up the texture. The tricky thing about this is that the ratios are really different from what you would do for a normal daiquiri because you're relying on the freezing process to change the way it tastes.

Like, when the water freezes up, it, like the flavor changes. So it's like quite a bit more sugar than I would put in and you add water to the drink instead of adding ice to it and stuff. So, you know, I just don't know, I don't know the science well enough to know what I did wrong. I think, you know, if I backed off by a quarter of an ounce of alcohol would have frozen up, I don't know. That's tough. I mean, it takes a whole fucking night to, you know, it takes 24 hours to make, so it's

not like I can iterate this quickly and figure out where I went wrong. I think it'll get the job done though, right? Yeah, it's fine. I added a bunch of lime juice to it, so to cut the sweetness because it was it was really killing me man. I am drinking a cocktail made by no effort of my own. My wife makes shrubs and and her voice. I wish my wife made shrubs. Yeah and her latest creation is a strawberry rhubarb shrub and so just to give you a little a little drink about it method. It's a shot of that and a shot of mezcal or tequila and then a little floater of club soda. And you stir it all up and throw a lime wedge or or ring in there and there you have it. It sounds quite refreshing. It's really nice. It's very nice indeed. Some friends of ours were inspired by my wife's shrub creations and they've got a plum tree on their property.

And then they went and made a plum shrub. And I tried it last night because we had been socializing together. And boy, oh boy, I think it might just be shrubs in general that I like. That sounds plum tasty, Adam. Yeah. Plum the king of stone fruit in my opinion. Oh, well I don't know if I can get there with you. I'm so down.

Being a peach partisan like I am. If we're comparing peaches to plums, the plum skin actually has flavor while the peach skin just has texture, and that's why I give the plum the nod. Yeah, but if you get a good peach, that's the best tasting thing. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but it's difficult to find the best peach.

I feel like you can find great plums fairly often. Fine plums are normal. Great peaches are rare, but when you get the great peach, it's like as good as food gets, and it's just one thing. Look at me talking out of my S though. Like it's been a while since I've had a great peach. It's a recency bias thing. Maybe it is, I don't know.

I can admit it. Our buddy, Dave Schumke, makes some kind of rhubarb drink that they're always talking about on stop podcasting yourself. Oh yeah? I've always wanted to go on stop podcasting yourself during the summer, so I could try Dave Shumka's rhubarb drink.

You gotta do it. It's so good. It has a great person to have a cocktail with. Yeah. Big fun. We were marooned in Northern Canada one time with them and had some some super premium hotel hangs with them. Yeah, I love those guys. Great gang. Do you want to get into the episode we came to talk about today? You know I want to. I'm two shrub cocktails

in. Oh really? And you know what that means. You're ahead of me, I got to catch up. I'm looking for Parmach and all the wrong places, Ben. It's Deep Space 9 season 3 episode 3. No, of course you don't. Maybe the longest episode title we've gotten on Deep Space 9, right? I don't think anything's close. Yeah, I had to abbreviate it on my notes, which you don't. Maybe the longest episode title we've gotten on Deep Space Nine, right? I don't think anything's close. Yeah, I had to abbreviate it on my notes, which I don't think I've ever had to do. Hmm. You know, we talk about episodes that end on a slide whistle. Uh-huh.

This one opens on a slide whistle, Adam. Yeah. Big time. There's a busher walking weirdly down a lonely hallway, There's a busher walking weirdly down a lonely hallway, listening in to a doorway as we hear the sounds of an argument from the other side and court catches him. Oh hello Kwak. Be sure to try to play it off like he's stretching or something. The shoes turn to do a tragic figure at this point, right?

What is he doing? And why does he care? He has nothing else to do. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad. I am very sad for him. He needs his own life, and the show doesn't give him that at this point. Yeah.

Gord calls a spade a spade. He says Bashir is eavesdro dropping on the battling O'Brien's. Oh, it's just kind of the grass under the window there. And then kind of joins in the fun of the, of dropping these Eaves. And then Keko walks up to them, also in the hallway, revealing that the O'Brien's in question are in fact,

Chief O'Brien. I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. This is fucking spectacular and Major Kira Wow So it's like that in their household so that's how it is in their family I mean if if Kira were to adapt the O'Brien last name, then she would just be called O'Brien, right? Yeah.

Because that's how it works in Bishur and Culture. O'Brien Narees. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, that'd be kind of an amusing twist for the show to take. Like they turn into a triad. She becomes the unicorn and miles in K-Ghost's relationship. Yeah. Not so sure that's off the table, Ben.

Kind of what the episode is about, actually. Quark doesn't need to even try to overhear people. He doesn't need to put a glass on the door, for example. Right. Is that really how ears work? Like, if my ears were as big as quarks, would they be that sensitive? It sure feels like the most important part of the ear is the inside and not the outside.

Like, you don't get people with big ears talking about how great their hearing is. What you need is like, what is it? The ball and drum? Yeah, the tempanic membrane. Yeah, well, what you need is a great big drum in there. Yeah. Isn't that the secret? I don't know. I mean, like when you put your hand up to your ear, you can sometimes hear

something across the room. Yeah, so that's got to be a big part of it. I feel like it's a whole system that's got to be working together. Maybe there's something also going on inside. Maybe Cork has an enviable, tympanic membrane. How long have we known for Rengi? Why are we just now getting a hint at their advanced ability for hearing? I feel like we've experienced their sensitivity to loud noises a few times.

Right. I don't know. Yeah, I want more of this. And I want it used in a bad business sense. Right, and exactly the same way of like, if data can pinch the nose of a Tommy gun closed with his thumb and forefinger, why isn't he ripping people's arms out of their sockets all the time?

Right. Yeah, that was an issue we interrogated for a long time when the show was about Star Trek the next generation. We were young and dumb. Not everyone was particularly full of come, but. No. No. No. We were shooting ash at that point.

We cut to the Reppelmat and it's the return of Grilka. Yeah. Ben, someone that we knew from the house of Quark episode. Yeah, Wharf and Dax are kind of, they're like, on more of a date than wharf seems to realize. I like a man-wrapped with contradiction. Wharf is just oblivious, and he has been for a long time.

Have you ever realized you were on a date like while it was already happening? That's really cute, Ben. No, not ever. I was always in the position of wanting it to be a date that it clearly was not. Oh, wow. I so I when I was no one ever wanted to date me, I need to make that clear. When I was on study abroad, I invited a what I thought of as a platonic friend from my program to the movies one night, and she and I were sitting there watching

the extraordinarily violent Eli Roth movie, Hostel. And during the movie I realized, like God, I don't think that this girl has any reason to believe that this isn't a date I invited her on, and that this is the movie I thought we should see on a first date. And then I like couldn't not think that. And I don't, like I never got confirmation one way or another, but I just, I just felt

terrible whole time after that. Did you, did you feel worse about the possible mixed message or about the film selected for the date. Both. There were both bad choices. I shouldn't have seen that dumb gross movie. And I shouldn't have, you know, like, I was a very awkward man in my youth. I'm still an awkward man. Yeah, you know. Come on. I just don't have to... Like, I'm still an awkward man. Yeah, you know, I just don't have to like that much

has changed. When you're married, a huge number of awkward situations get taken out of your life. Yeah, a lot of that stuff stops mattering. Yeah, so much ceases to matter as soon as you're married, right, Ben? It's one of the best things about it. Wurf peeps Grilka from across the room and he's wondering, do the eyebrows match the drapes? Because he is smitten. What are you doing? I'm going to touch your neck with your hand down. It's like right on the heels of him, dax, basically tiptoeing up

to sexy talk with each other, you know. Yeah, Warf is too dumb for that. Yeah, yeah, he's not picking up what she's putting down. If you wanna hit on Warf, you're gonna have to take out both of his dicks. Friend to get a sense of what's happening. Oh, this is like a sexual kind of thing. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

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Yeah. That would be awful to get out of balance. Like, oh man, left bladder is fucking busting right now. Yeah, I mean, in that way they could be like breasts, right? Like breasts filled with different amounts of mother's milk. Right. Yeah. Would you like to know more? I want to know more about this.

Yeah. Would you like to know more? Want to know more about this. Well, Worf catches Grilka embracing Quark and is, you know, it's like seeing a hot person do something that you think is gross and having it kind of like ruin the hotness for you. But DAX explains like, oh yeah, like that's Grilka. She used to be married to Quar. Like seeing a lady take a dump into a, uh, a file folder set in the middle of a train station. Yeah.

She's just crappin'. Like that. Like that. Speaking of taking a dump, I kind of feel like Klingons talk about finances like diarrhea. Yeah. Yeah, they treated as a disgusting topic of conversation. Grilka is very much there to seek Quirks' help in straightening out her books after all of the in straightening out her books after all of the war expenditures her house has underwent and you know they've lost a lot of men, a lot of material, a lot of land. More.

Why does it good for it? If you ask me absolutely nothing. Yeah. And they need to, they need to square things away. But you can't like kind of come right out and ask for it because it's a taboo. It's embarrassing to not have your shit buttoned up financially. As it clings on. If it pleases you, I will allow you access to the records.

Kind of weak by Grilka, TBH. It's got to be frustrating for Quark too. He just zeroed out those books and now she's she's in a whole bunch of financial trouble again it's got to be frustrating there's been a whole cling on war in between then and now so I could see why things would have changed I thought Quark may have taught her how to do fish accounting. You know, so that she could learn to catch the fishes herself. Oh yeah. Well, you know, if, you know, we hired a bookkeeper about a year ago for the Uxbridge

Shermota family of products. And I think if we've learned anything, it's that it is really good that somebody who actually knows what they're doing is keeping an eye on things. Yeah, you can really make a hiring mistake in that area. Trust us. Interesting backstory to Grilka, though. Like this ongoing conflict has been a money-losing proposition for her, So she's kind of in the weeds a little bit financially. Yeah. I love a return of a character like this and how much infill that does on like what

the Klingon War has meant for different kinds of people in this universe. She really scratches a lursa and batour itch that I have. Oh yeah. In manner, I really feel like she's elements of both characters to me. She's not as grody as lursa or batour. Yeah. Who's not always like licking her fangs. Yeah, I mean, she can't go all the way there for whatever reason,

but she is window-pain breast adjacent, you know? Yeah. Gold to cotton, gold to cotton. So, this episode, interestingly, directed by Garrick. Yeah. You notice that? I did notice that.

That's pretty cool. It's first time. He's got an initial. He's got a middle initial for his directing credit, which is interesting. What is it? It's Andrew J. Robinson. And I think that that's like that's almost certainly a guild thing. Like if you are, it's why a lot of actors have like a middle initial or a middle name or something because... That's why your Benjamin R. Harrison. Well, yeah, I mean, it kind of is. It's to distinguish one Andrew Robinson from another.

So presumably, somebody in the DGA was already named Andrew Robinson, and so you can't be named that. But he invented being an Andrew Robinson, who's an actor. There's a weird kind of elliptical thing going on with the backstory of Grilka, and it begins in the Reppelman when DAX is like, all right, let me give you the lowdown on Grilka, and then she sprinkles in a little bit in that scene. And then later on, when we cut to ops, the story continues. Like they're taking the lift into ops and decks is finishing relating this entire backstory to them. Yeah.

But Worf could have just sat down and watched the House of Quark episode. Right. We're getting the last time on through DAX here. Yeah. I like it. She really knows the whole damn thing. I guess she played enough tango with Quark to extract this story from him. Yeah.

And it's pretty fun. O'Brien isn't through buying sketchy shit from Bashir to give to Kyra because he's in there to, like I guess the insect thing from the last episode did or did not pay off. There was no real resolution to whatever happened there. But O'Brien is picking up some flones from Bashir to give to Kira for her sneezing. And it's clear that he's sort of adapted a bit of a medieval food tasting sensibility for her. Yeah. Like he's wearing the gas mask.

He's wanting to taste and smell all of the herbs and stuff that Bashir is prescribing. Bashir's like, this is homeopathy, man. Like there's literally no risk. Oh, Brian makes the mistake of letting something slip that Bashir sees us on greatly, which is like, yeah, I noticed Kira had a bit of a rash when she was rising from the tub. And I was helping her out of said tub and Bishir was like

Oh really Could you draw her body for memory? It's it's kind of like like Bishir is getting kind of gross about it, but like He's not wrong, you know like that's a pretty like intimate moment to share with your coworker who moved into your house. If you are in a 24th century future and you were a pregnant person, I would assume that pregnancy technology would be such that like right now we've got like the old person tub with a little door on the outside in the seat in the middle.

There's a version of that that's even better right now on the station, right? Why does Kira need O'Brien? I think that question's answered later, and that there probably is a technology that Kira is opting out of in order to get that sweet sweet O'Brien time. That is something that is teased a little bit later on. But O'Brien has seen it all, Ben. He's seen everything. This episode really made me wonder if this is a thing,

like a thing that happens with surrogate mothers. Yeah. I don't know that much about it. I don't know if it's like based in truth or something. Yeah, surrogate attraction. But Kate, you must remember that a surrogate is not your employee, but your partner. Yeah, Kate, we're partners.

Like Tom and Jerry. It seems totally believable. Yeah. That it would go down like that. Yeah. Back in quarks. Back in Quarks, Back in Quarks, Grilka has seized on Worff's mind and heart

to the extent that he throws more and out. Don't put this on her, don't, this is his fault. Well, Worff has gone crazy because he throws more and out of his bar stool and then starts making a huge scene in order to get the attention of Grilka and her posse What is that smell? This is one of those weird times where it doesn't seem like anybody is actually at Quarks Yeah, like there's a boolean bar tending. Yeah, this seems like an after hour situation

Yeah, I doubt Warfoot have done this, had it been a full bar. Yeah. But Warf's Klingon plumage is puffed out, and it's super colorful. Yeah, he says. This is clear that this is like a mating thing happening. Yeah, he's dancing back and forth on the branch. Right.

He's threatening Thopak, the younger of the two male Klingons that have arrived on the station with Grilka and the older dude is like, Hey, Warf, why don't you come over here and talk to me for a second. I'm gonna hit you to some shit. And this two-metre guy is great. I think he's one of my favorite characters. He's great. He's like, you know how your're kind of ex-communicated from

public-clinic on society? Like, she's never gonna date you, dude. Tumex, like, you may have noticed the reputation of your house is changing, Wurf. And that's okay. But Grilk is not interested. Oh, man, I'm not good with girls. Girls. Tumex says something in the scene

that really excited me, which is he says, your name is a curse. Whoa, yeah. People are walking around on Kronos going like, go war yourself. Eat warf, brother warfer. Up your warfer in around the corner. You're a real piece of warf, you know that? Yeah.

I love that idea. That's how bad it's gotten for warf. That good. Meanwhile there's a little abatimized colon walking around making the same jokes. Yeah. Eat my wharf. Ha ha ha. Mother wharfer.

Ha ha ha. You rotten little piece of wharf. You're not worthy to lick the wharf off my wharf. A son of a wharf cut me off in traffic. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I wharf that mother wharf her up on the side of the road. People saw me and were like, wharf, that guy really got it. Later on, it's clear wharf was kind of embarrassed about this.

He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was like being his true self. He clearly was unaware of how his name was being used back home. But I almost don't think that that's really it. I think that his leaning on a tradition here just clanked in the room. Yeah. It's weird. Kind of a lot going on. Yeah. But a DAX is like, good try. Like sometimes you need to act foolish in the name of love.

Like I get it. Like I don't think you should feel too bad about yourself. She's been surprisingly supportive despite the fact that he kind of ruined their date to go chase after this lady. Warf, it's clear from the scene is dumb in a couple of ways. He has. They're having this conversation on the little D, by the way.

Yeah. And is it weird that we haven't been inside Warf's quarters on the little D, like ever? I think we saw him like taking the mattress pad off the off the bed at one point Shouldn't they be wrapping in his room maybe I don't know They're just in the in the canteen on the little D and then cork walks in which is like why can cork get on the little D Great question. That is a worship For the Federation. I mean he's got he's got honey sticks for all occasions.

They probably shouldn't let Kara on the little D. Yeah. Yeah. He's there to like in the classic way of, you know, a couple people will be having a conversation about one person's interest in another and then a third person enters and expresses an interest in the same person that they're discussing.

That's what's happening here. Quark needs advice about Klingon mating rituals because he's been invited to dinner at Grilkas and he thinks it's on. I need help. And he's actually asking for DACs to tell him about how to do, Klingon for play correctly. Right, and this causes Wurf to storm out of the room. Quarkus, how many clits does a Klingon woman have? And if I talk to Lottella of men and boats,

if I talk dirty to her, how dirty should I talk? Like, should I say Wurf or is that like, too dirty? Yeah, I can be that book in Wurf. Oh, you like it when I warthf, or is that like, two dirty? Yeah, I can be that fucking warf. Oh, you like it when I warf you baby? You like it when I warf you baby? Sit your warf down on my face. I'm gonna stick my warf right in your warf. I need to make sure that if I'm playing on warfing you

in the warf, that I tell you ahead of time so we can prepare. Get your warf ready, baby. For a nice warfin. Warf is this your idea of sex? Warf is sort of off to the side a little bit during Dax's advice, which is not great, because warf comes in with his own. His advice is you have got to get yourself the leg of a lignetah, bring it to dinner and then do that thing where you sweep all of the food off of the dinner table and replace it with this leg. Very dramatic. It's very dramatic. You know, it's

it's such an interesting scene like Worf is despite being a swear word in Klingon society, so interested in doing Klingon right, that he can't help himself but give Kork great advice in this scene. So, like, he is kind of working at cross purposes with what he wants in doing so. And then, also, at the same time, Dax is there encouraging Kark and encouraging wharf, and accepting the friend zoning that she's being given by wharf with a stupendous amount of class, I should say,

but also why isn't she speak up a little bit more? This is where the Cirono De Bergerac elements begin, right? Yeah. It's somewhat higher stakes though, because if Quark does this right, he will get sex, but if he does it wrong, she will kill him. I mean, it often feels like those are the stakes. When you're out on the open market, I haven't been out on the open market in a long time, but yeah, felt pretty grave the entire time, I'll say.

Speaking of intimate situations, O'Brien is giving Tira a sensual massage. As your pregnancy progresses, your partner can help you prep your perinium for the great stretch of the wavly. They're all hanging around the O'Brien quarters in their civilian garb. She's in kind of a pink shift. And he's in Something that looks like Riker would wear it at a trombone recital And this is one of those like I feel like Just the hands-on

intimacy of it it kind of like sends them down the path of like accidental sexy talk All right, Miles time to teach you about massaging pregnant women. Kiko is super encouraging of all the familiarity. Kiko's super open-minded about this, which is great. But it's tough, man. Like, could I give a massage to a lady friend of mine? I could. Like a picking hot lady lady friend of mine. I could. Like a picking hot lady friend also. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, but there is a lot of, there's a lot of drama that you're inviting into your life and relationship if you try. Yeah. But in this case, it's Keko encouraging it. Yeah. I also thought it was really interesting from a costuming standpoint that Kira is wearing

a very, a very sexy dress and Kiko is wearing like a super sexy outfit also and then Chief Brian's wearing an ad for a private war. Like, the case for him being sexy is being, you know, undercut drastically by what he's wearing. Yeah, but the two women are like almost hypersexualized in this scene. The costume wags the tone of this, doesn't it? That's interesting. And also, Chiufobri and himself is just awkward and a little dopey in the scene to where,

you never get a sense that he's doing the sort of massage that is intended to be creepy or over the line. Like this is not a massage with ulterior motives. No, I mean, it's just, but it's the scene where they're reminiscing about Old Ireland and they kind of both arrive at the conclusion like maybe this is accidentally getting sexier than we mean for it to get, and you know, like they both like kind of get a little awkward. This is a well-acted scene. I feel like it's got to be very hard to do this kind of dimensionality in relationship between two characters. The idea that you may or may not be feeling something,

but it's encouraged by a third person, but also we really shouldn't, but also there's nothing here. Like that'd be crazy. There's five different things happening in the room. I wondered if they had a mirror set up so that they could both see each other so that when,

because they both, like it washes over their face at the exact same moment. It's well timed. It's really well done. And like, Kira can't see each other, you know? Kira's facing away from Orion. Yeah. Back on the little D quirk boards the ship again

for some reason. And thanks, Warf, for his advice. Well, he gets to warf is a great check so he can just get it You know, it's very quick very efficient right He's there to thank war for his advice because it went great. Yeah Warf is it's just hanging around on the bridge of the little D singing Meloda or something yeah, drying his clothes on the on the bridge of the little D singing Meloda or something. Yeah, and drying his clothes on the seats. Yeah. Quark walks in and is like, hey, can you turn that warf off?

That's something to talk about here, buddy. This warf is hurting my ears. You call that warf music? Quark is thankful, but he also wants more. He can't do this on his own. If he's going to be in a thing with this ex-wife, if he's gonna rekindle this flame, he's gonna need more of Worf's advice.

Yeah. And Worf agrees to give it. The Klingon mating ritual is complex and has a lot of steps and Worf agrees to provide the needed intel for the next step, which is doing some sword fighting. At what point in the episode did you start thinking about whether or not Quark really wanted to be with Grilka and in what way? I feel like there's a lot of detail given to the many ways that a person courts a cling

on. Yeah. But not a lot of time is given to the reason that Quark wants to do so. It seems like a little bit of a booty call. Yeah. That's implied. But then what?

Like I don't, like Quark never gives voice to any kind of end game to this. He seems to be in it for the thrill of the hunt. Yeah, like he doesn't want to make Grilka his girlfriend. Yeah, it's almost like to see if he could do it. Yeah, and it's interesting because a lot of the, you know, like at one point somebody says, when you ask her about the history of her house, that will show her great respect and court recoils at the idea of showing respect to a woman he's trying to pursue. Right.

And that kind of, I think, betrays where he's coming from, that this is much more the conquest of Shoshaila Femm than it is like, you know, that he has any actual, any actual interest in her as a person. At Odo's, Kira and Odo are doing that security report meeting that they always do. And Odo's feelings on O'Brien's work is fairly damning. And what this does is this flushes Kira's feelings about him out of the brush.

It is so interesting to see the Odo having a crush on Kira's storyline used as a backstop for a whole different storyline. Yeah. Growing fond of the chief Halloween. Odo kind of didn't have much to do in the last episode and he really doesn't have much to do in this episode. But really being Odo, you know, he's not being a p to do in this episode, but yeah, but really being Odo, you know, he's not being a potted plant in either episode, I don't think.

I really like Renee Avershin was physicality in this scene, like he's really playing with his posture and what he's leaning on. Yeah, he's the stuff. But there's no suggestion of his biology playing a part in how he's feeling in this scene. Like and his, I mean, the fact that he's still a human person with human organs. Yeah, he's got to be, he's got to really be tripping off testosterone. Right. Yeah. Uh, totally unregarded by either he or Kira in that moment. This is such a great point.

I didn't even really think about it that much, but the last two episodes, it is so weird that they chose not to do another thing where Oda was the central character to explore his solidness for a little while. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they've got to be coming back to it later, but there's no reason they can't be sprinkling it

throughout season five. It is a mystery why they're not doing that. Yeah. Odo might not be gelatinous anymore, but he's served jelly of O'Brien. That is just a rope into the outfield seat spin. Hella of a job. Yeah, O'Brien apparently has been repairing a pile on,

but not doing a great job of it because he's kind of preoccupied with the impending birth of his second child. And the job site being left sort of unattended is how Nerduels are sneaking in and stealing equipment. Yeah, not a good look by the chief. A lot of, you know, like in construction sites, you usually like build a shed to lock the tools up oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Peronians really like self-organize around alliteration a lot of the time Like hey your name Coloth and I'm Kang and he's core. Let's chill

Yeah, it seems that way Quark and Grilka are in a hollow suite continuing their courtship well while to Mac and Thopak hang back in the cut and And they like come stomping down that circular staircase having just And they come stomping down that circular staircase, having just done some hollow sweeping together. Yeah, it's been since like the unveiling of the Ferengues and Tia and Jesus, we've seen a Ferengue in fur, and Quark looks great. Yeah, I do like the fur look on Quark.

Grilka in the scene asks the question on all of our minds, which is why does Quark pursue her? Quark's answer is uniquely for Rengi. He says, one word, value. Yeah. He also uses the word object in reference to her, which I thought is surprising that she was sweet on him enough to cruise past that. I only pursue those things I wish to. Quark never disappoints in these areas, right?

Like this is in keeping with his entire deal. Yeah. Yeah. So she realizes that he's just trying to wararf her, but she kind of like to get wharfed. So it's not by war. Right. Thopak and Tumak might have been eavesdropping on this, but at the end of this scene, Thopak sort of interferes with their conversation. He cannot deal with Quark as a thing for Grilka and challenges him to a fight to the death. Yeah. And because of the way Klingon manners work, she's like, yeah, so the guy I pay to protect

me threatened your life. What are you going to do, quark? It's a scene that proves one thing about cling on tradition, utterly, right? You can't just be a cafeteria cling on. No, you're a cling on all the way or you are not. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like all of these cling on traditions have benefited quirk up until now, up until the moment where death is on the line. So, O'Brien and Kira have tipped out up to the line where they realize that they're kind of in trouble. If they have another intimate experience, they might make a mistake, do something that they're both going to regret. And so, Kira comes to the O'Brien household and it's like, hey guys, I'm actually

thinking about taking kind of a vacation heading to Beijor for a couple of days, just getting away from it all, going off up in the mountains. And Keko is playing the classic oblivious character here, and she's like, oh, that's great. Sounds super relaxing, but we don't want you to go by yourself, and I've got something to do tomorrow, so why don't I just end up miles tag along with you to the super romantic getaway. Yeah, it is extremely awkward

because Kira is trying to wiggle out of this proposal and so is O'Brien. Kiko's like, I just, I feel like one of us should be close to you and it can't be me. So mate, what if, what if Miles stuck his penis in your vagina just to like, just so I could feel safe? You know, I heard a new thing on the promenade that I would like to try out in the room.

Miles, if you take out your wharf the room. Miles, if you take out your wharf and then Kira, if you dump out your wharf's, maybe we can just see what happens. Maybe we can get a little wharfie. Yeah, maybe Miles could jack off and wharf all over your wharf's. Oh boy, this is awkward. Miles, Edward, O'Brien, are you going to let the woman carry your unborn child? Go on a trip all by herself. It's awkward because it's that thing where they all could have the conversation about this unexpected thing that's

happening and it's weird, but no one was prepared for it. No one's trying to make this happen, but like, surrogacy can bring about some unexpected feelings. Like, that is never even a conversation anyone thinks of having. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, it's not that long ago that O'Brien was discussing how much time he has to spend in therapy after his prison experience. Like, you'd think that he would have a few more tools for dealing with this than just like awkwardly trying to get away from everything. Right.

Yeah, me to him, he's been warping off for 20 years in some weird prison. Yeah. Like, sexually, I think he's going to be a little messed up. Yeah. sexually, I think he's going to be a little messed up. Yeah, yeah. The next step in the courtship process is going to have to be killing Thopak for Quark. And this is an awkward deal because Quark is not a batless man in the same way that Dax and Warfar. So they come up with a pretty ingenious scheme,

which is they're gonna use a neural transmitter for quirk that they will hide under a lampshade, which nobody else would bat an eye at, but you and I know that this is the first time we've actually seen quirk wear one of these things. And I don't think we've ever seen under the lampshade either. Yeah, yeah. And it's like some kind of gizmo that's back there and it enables Wurf,

who is wearing a different gizmo of his own, to give all of his batleth prowess to Quark. Wurf is a puppeteering quark in such a way that he's sticking his mental hand up Quark's Warf. It's weird, but it's cool. It's cool to see the effect like they're shot in profile. Yeah, and so you see how this thing works like it's showing and not telling in a very efficient way. It's like a handheld shot, right, that reveals it where we see quirk battling dacks and we're like, holy shit, this guy can fight all of a sudden. And then the camera backs up in the space and you see Wurf doing all the same moves

in conjunction with him. And it's really well-cordiographed, it's really well done. It's like as good of Batleth fighting as we've ever seen, and it's like two guys doing it together at the same time. Several contestants were maimed, but I was triumphant. We never see DAX and Warf turn it off on Quark, which led me to believe that in the intervening time,

it remained. And how funny would it have been to have an interstitial scene where Wharf was like, was like doing that thing where he reaches behind someone else and like, you're operating their arms and hands. Like Wharf is making the fucked up drinks behind the bar with quarks body. Everything has like a prune juice floater in it. It goes and dumps something on the morons head. Quark goes like, I can't stop warping off. After quark bounces,

Dax asks, like, why do you sweat grillka so much? Like, what's that about? Like, you know, you got me standing right in front of you yeah but I mean Dax has has one vaginal canal like I can see I can see why she's a trill maybe she has to we don't know what the trill are packing I mean she's got the pouch hole so I guess that's another thing yeah if he if he's got enough length, he could probably get into both. God. Are you fucking pouch when you get down with a trill?

Maybe if you're not a cling on and you're getting ready for sex with a penis having cling on, you just always prepare the behold. You just, when you're a trill, you just always take an extra good shower. You do a little butt plug action for a few hours ahead of time. Dex is critical of Warf's laundry list of reasons, like superficial reasons also, that

he likes Grilka. And she's right because this is fairly immature of Warf to idealize someone you hardly know that is always a recipe for Disappointment like this is what crushes are yeah Well, I love that that said why don't you go for somebody a little bit more attainable? Yeah, that's that's not how you want to frame this yeah cuz cuz she's warping on herself by by Describing it like that right yeah, that's really warped up. She's betterping on herself by describing it like that, right? Yeah, that's really warped up. She's better in Grilka. Well, I don't know about that.

More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. More. Do you hear everybody? More. Stop. Hammer time. In the Hollow Suite, Quark has entered ready for battle. And it does fairly well thanks to Worf's chops. Yeah, Thopak is really blown away at Corey's Batlet skills. It doesn't know what to make of it. If Worf can hang with Gauron with the Batlet,

shouldn't he be dispatching this guy like with ease, with super ease? I guess we have to wonder whether the Wor if we have here is the war if that one The big batlet's trophy or the one that did not win the batlet's trophy Great question. Yeah, which universe does this war come from? Yeah champion standing warf Totally kills Thopak Just head goes flying across the room in the first move. But seventh place, Worf, is this one, the one that we get in the scene, I think.

In the fight, Worf chops off part of his harmonica holder. It is great. I get such a funny thing coming from the script, but the prop department got perfect. Like what they designed is exactly what makes sense for this accident to happen. So fun. And yeah, so Quark has to kind of think quickly and kill some time while DAX repairs the harmonica holder. So he invokes some made up Ferengi right where he explains

why he wants to worth Grilka so bad. He has shown respect to our traditions. We will do the same. This is where Quark is the best, right? This thinking on his feet coming up with a thing that he can do. Yeah. And by drawing an equivalence between Ferengi customs and his respect for Klingon customs,

like it is an airtight out for him to sort of call time out in the middle of this. Yeah. That it was really well written. Yeah, I liked it a lot. So they get the thing fixed, get it back on Wharf. He finishes the fight, but does not do the murder. Cause it'd be terrible to seek work, do a horrible crime.

How could you never cover from something like that? You never see it. But Grilka determines that Thopak's honor has been fulfilled and he doesn't need to work for her anymore. You get to go home with a clear conscience. I guess so. He gets on and he's like, yeah, I got fired for my job. My boss was a real wharf. I swear if he warps me one more time.

It seems like I don't know what I was expecting in this scene, but it feels like far too many duels between klingons or duels between klingons and others were death is on the line. When was the last time we saw one of those that actually ended in death? Like early TNG Warf. Yeah, that was it. I feel like it's been a long ass time since we've gotten a situation where death was on the line and death was the line. Yeah, they're just not enough Sicilians in this show. That's fair. You felt

victim to one of the classic blunders. Man, you don't do breath play. You know, when you're getting down to sexy stuff, feeling, I mean, you gotta be careful. That's, that is too, it's too dangerous. Dan Savage is pro everything in his anti-breath play. What's funny is, like, Dax drops subtle hint after subtle hint for wharf and wharf is too much of a dumb to pick up any of them. Wharf is just being a total wharf about this. And it takes Dax skipping the subtlety and skipping straight to physicality for him to get it. Yeah, she has to hologram herself another batlet to get down to business. And I guess she's just so turned on by what she imagines is going on between

Grilka and Quark in the next room. Yeah. But both couples are doing breath stuff. And you just can't do that. Too dangerous. Have you had a personal experience with breath play? I mean, I was, I thought, I thought I'm just a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a loyal accolade of dance average. And I know that it's too dangerous. You're, you're in a smelling pit. That's what you like. He makes a big deal out of it. Yeah. That's true. But yeah, the... It's on. The get downs get down and we meet up with O'Brien and Kira on a runabout and they're both in there like vacation clothing and they're kind of talking it over

and they're like, God damn it. Like we're gonna go hang out in a super romantic cabinet in the woods on some mountain somewhere and like look at a river Like we're we're totally warped if we if we actually go through with this and If you can't afford Risa it feels like this is a pretty good second place, right? Yeah, this place is made for warping This is warpings spectacular and so they come up with this scheme that O'Brien is gonna just not go and he'll tell Keko that he,

he didn't get through TSA in time to make the flight and Kira is gonna go see Shikar in the capital and O'Brien will, he'll be dealing with a rash on a war from K-Go, but he'd rather say sorry than go through with this. At this point in the episode, like, enough has been resolved, like, the pair-offs have happened in such a way that if this episode took a hard right turn into Kira's visit with Chikar, and that moment being Kira finally telling Jhikar that she's pregnant with O'Brien's baby.

That's how I wanted this episode to end. Like, give me a hard 10 minutes of that super awkward conversation between her and Jhikar. Like, for some reason, she's kept it to herself. Yeah. It'd be amazing. She's only doing the FaceTime from from like the breasts up. Shikar's like damn girl. Lookin' thick. Give daddy his numb-nombs.

You're kind of glowing. It really makes me want to warf you. You're kind of glowing. It really makes me want to warf you. Yeah. What do we know about Shikar's knowledge of Kira's pregnancy? We don't know anything, right? Yeah. I think that's got to come up. It is a shame that we don't get that scene. Yeah. I think this was, I mean, as great as the scene early on, where O'Brien and Kira were awkward together with the realization between them, this doubles down on that feeling big time,

and is an even more pronounced feeling of that. It's a more pronounced expression of that here, because O'Brien does that thing where he looks at her lips at the end. Like, it seems like they come very close to making out here. They both agree verbally that shit is going down, and maybe in another life, things would go down. It's amazing.

She has to kick him off the run about because he kind of gets lost in those lips. You didn't think I was going to look down there? Here's about to climb onto his wharf, if he doesn't leave. You're really going to do this. Here, now to climb onto his wharf. If he doesn't leave. You're the one to do this. Here, now, okay, okay, let's do it. The button on the episode is in the infirmary.

Quirk and Grilka have had their role in the hay and Quirk is really banged and bruised up. And Bishier is helping patch things up. Kind of oblivious to what the cause of injury is. And he keeps asking like, what happened, and I guess kind of grossed out when it becomes clear to him that they were warping. And then Income Warfin, DAX, who have also just warped. And, uh, the series is equally perturbed and grossed out by that. It just stinks like warfin' there. Yeah, everything smells like warfin'.

Yeah. It's wild to think that we've gotten, like, not just one pair off, but two pairs off in this episode. We almost went for three. We almost went for the hat trick. I know. I know. The button on the app is DAX and Wurf post-gaming it.

Like, what does it all mean? I mean, they've clearly begun a ritual that ends in marriage, and Daxe kind of pumps the brakes on that a little bit. She's like, I'm not in any rush. I'm down to just see where this happens. I'm down to just see where this goes. And for some reason, that is like the laugh line of the episode is Daxe saying, I'm just glad you're not into Grilka anymore.

And then out of nowhere, like Worf Stovakore laughs. Yeah. What did you think of the fact that his hair is down and hers is not? She's still got like a hair clip in and her, and her, you know, like the part of her do that is up is still up. I don't know. Actually, there's some continuity problems you know, like the part of her do that is up is still up. Hmm.

I don't know. Actually, there's some continuity problems because a couple of times it cuts and he's got like full ponytail and then like it'll cut to the front and he's got like his hair like down at his shoulders. It suggests a lack of equivalence in oral sex happening. Hmm. Yeah. Oh, maybe in oral sex happening. Yeah. Oh, maybe in oral. Maybe she finished him off orally, and she needed to put her hair back to make that work.

Yeah, yeah, I could see that. And that's it. Did you like the episode Adam? I mean, God, so much happens. It's hard not to love it. I think it's one of the rare instances where an A and a B story are almost equal in terms of their interest and quality. But they teased me with something that I can't stop thinking about, which is, I mean, for a season now, they've teased the idea of a DAX and War for Relationship and now that it's here, I'm thinking about whether or not I'm happy

about that or if I would prefer an O'Brien-Kirror relationship and all of the drama that that would present. Wow. I wonder if there was ever a point where they were like, you know, they're not visa tour and column meaning are really doing great with how awkward this is. And I just can't imagine there wasn't a moment in the writers room where they were like, okay, let's, let's throw this ball a yarn out and, and see how far it goes and like sketch out what could possibly happen here. I think that is a super interesting road not taken by the show and I mean it remains to be seen whether not Daxon Wharf is a satisfying thing. But what but as far as drama goes I would assume that a I would assume that a O'Brien and Kira relationship

would pack far more drama into things given the Keko situation. But I think that's where I'm at with it. What about you? I like the episode a lot. I think it's, it is a much lighter episode than, you know, like a lot of shit has happened. And I guess I think this is kind of like a bit of a palette cleanser episode. But what a lot happens, you know, a lot of momentous shit goes down. And it's pretty fun to watch. And I think there's a lot of real feelings in it,

like the feeling of being a girl with a crush on a guy who's got a crush on another girl and he's helping another guy get with that girl. All of that stuff is a bit overwrought and melodramatic, but also all of the feelings of want and jealousy are very real and well portrayed I think. Right. So I really liked it.

Yeah, good app. Good app. And you know, it's shitty to ding it for something that it didn't do instead of grading it for what it did. And I just want to be clear, I like the episode a lot, but it did make me a little preoccupied because it did such a good job with Kira Onobry. And I wonder to what degree that was a surprise to people. Yeah. Yeah.

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I, I really wonder if he's going to pull up out of this. He's, he's not a great character at the moment. What about you, Ben? My direction moda is Dr. Bashir for getting stuck cleaning up after everybody's sex. Yeah, no kidding. He's the mop guy at the sex arcade. Yeah.

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