Quark Episodes

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Discovery, go at throttle up. [00:00:09] Speaker A: 198-765-4321 hello, and welcome to the Star Trek Warp top ten podcast. What is going on? Alpha quadrant. Hey. In some parts of the beta quadrant. What's happening out there? I am your host of the podcast, Phil Rizzo, and I'm joined by my co host, Brian Parks. What's going on, Bomber? [00:00:41] Speaker B: Hey. It's been a minute. Thanks for having me back. [00:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:44] Speaker B: Ready to rock. How are you doing? [00:00:46] Speaker A: I'm doing great, man. It's been a minute. It's been too long between the holidays and this and that going on. We just haven't had a chance to get together and do another pod. Pretty excited to do it. It's good to see your smiling face. You got your little Star Trek t shirt on there, I see. That's awesome. [00:01:01] Speaker B: I do. Yes. I'm getting ready to go. I got this in the anticipation for the comic Con. Not last year, but the year before, which was a lot of fun. [00:01:08] Speaker A: I remember. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:10] Speaker A: That was awesome. Yeah. [00:01:12] Speaker B: This is my costume. [00:01:14] Speaker A: That was your costume? That's it. That's good. You're representing Trek more than I am tonight. Yeah, man. So we're back. We're talking Star Trek Bomber. I forgot. Did we discuss your viewing of Star Trek into Darkness on the pod yet? [00:01:26] Speaker B: Can't remember if we did or not. [00:01:28] Speaker A: If we did, we'll cut it out and we'll just forget. [00:01:31] Speaker B: I was going to say, I don't know if we did. I'm actually trying to remember what was the last episode we did? [00:01:37] Speaker A: The last episode that we did was. That's a great question. We did security officers, then we did worst next gen episodes. Was the last one we did worst. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Next gen. That's right. Yeah. That's right. [00:01:50] Speaker A: We went full tilt negative on that bitch. [00:01:53] Speaker B: So I don't remember if we talked about it on there or not, but if we didn't, I will say that it was enjoyable. Like I said, I loved the first one. This one was right up there. It was exciting. It was cool. Did you like this one better than the first or. They're kind of the same for you? [00:02:09] Speaker A: No, but when I first saw it, I think maybe I did. Like, when I first saw it, I was kind of hyped up in the theaters. I was so pumped. We didn't know for sure that Cumberbatch was playing cons. When that came out, I was like, oh, awesome. So I was very pumped at first. But then maybe you remember when we did our. The very first pod we did was the top ten movies and in the darkness finished, I want to say fourth and 2009 Star Trek finished second. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember that. [00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:38] Speaker B: It's funny when you said that, it reminded me of, for some reason, I have a vague memory of coming out of the, I know this is Stark wars here, but the Phantom menace, when we had first seen it, and someone after we, I remember walking out of theater, I heard someone go, well, it's at least Jedi. And I'm like, there's no way after a second viewing that person thought that, you know what I'm saying? We were all pumped up after the movie. So that's what I was thinking of when you said into darkness, where it's like you probably liked it better than the first one when you first saw it. But again, I will say me, you and Allison watched it again like we did the first one there. And I found it to be equally as entertaining. Again, for a non Trek fan, I was all pumped up. I was getting ready to go into battle myself. [00:03:25] Speaker A: It's fun. They purposely made them for mass consumption, right? They made them like popcorn movies. Yeah. There's enough there for the Trek fans to enjoy, but there's also enough for anybody to like. When angel watched it for the first time, she liked it. So it's good for everybody to watch. I think they're fun. I think it's a good way for you to get involved a little bit at first. We got one more to go. We'll watch Star Trek beyond. And then my work is really cut out for me. That's when I try to get you to watch something else. And that's going to be the hard part. [00:03:55] Speaker B: We're going to dive into a show. We're going to do that because maybe. Well, I was going to say we did love the Battlestar Galactica recommendation back in the day there a couple of years ago. But I know you mentioned lower decks, which I know, of course, I'll love just because I know it's going to be ridiculous. I thought you did mention a show that we should start with. [00:04:14] Speaker A: I did. I'm actually trying to get angel to watch it. Rewatch it with me now because discovery, Star Trek Discovery season five, the final season is starting in April, so I kind of want to do a rewatch. So I was thinking maybe I'll get angel to watch and we can watch it with her for the first time. And then I really think now Battlestar is a better show. I'm not going to say it's not like Battlestar is better than Star Trek Discovery but it's certainly along the same lines. It's cut from the same cloth as Battlestar, I think. [00:04:44] Speaker B: Well, now that we're doing this, I'll throw this at Alison. I mean, that would be a lot of watching. But, you know, I remember doing this with, like, lost trying to catch up to the finale. Could we catch up to the new season coming up? Could we do that? [00:04:57] Speaker A: Well, look at it like this. It premieres in April, right. But it's going to go at least ten episodes. So that means it's going to run until the end of May. So technically, you have till the end of May to watch. Now, here's the thing. It's not like the old broadcast shows that have 22 episodes, 26 episodes. It's. Most of them are ten. [00:05:14] Speaker B: That's pretty good. [00:05:15] Speaker A: The first season has actually got 15. 2nd season, I want to say, is like twelve and then three and 410. You're talking about like 50, 50 something episodes. [00:05:25] Speaker B: And is it like 40 minutes or an hour or like, how long are we looking at it? [00:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah, no, they're anywhere from 48 minutes to 59 minutes, I'd say. Okay. All right. Kind of like what you'd expect. [00:05:35] Speaker B: We're going to put this on the other burner. Burner here, see if we can make this happen. [00:05:38] Speaker A: But, yeah, maybe you start there and maybe you don't. As far as I'm concerned, I am almost done with the animated series, which is oddly fun. [00:05:47] Speaker B: I would like to check that out, too. I feel like I would. [00:05:49] Speaker A: You'd appreciate it because it's so Saturday morning cartoons when we were kids, right. The animation looks exact same. The plots are wacky. Like, they're so cartoonishly weird. Voice acting is awesome. [00:06:03] Speaker B: That's what I was going to say. The voice acting is from the actual cast. A lot of it, right? [00:06:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. All of them actually odly enough, except for Chekhov. Walter Canning wanted to be on the show, but they couldn't afford him in the budget. I didn't know that. I just found that out. So all the other actors return, including Roddenberry's wife who plays nurse chapel Magell Barrett. But they didn't have the budget for Walter Kinnick. So everyone except Chekhov is on the original is on the new show, the animated series. [00:06:31] Speaker B: You made me remind me that. I don't know if you've noticed this, but I always try to sneak in that this is not only a Star Trek podcast, but a Dukes of Hazard podcast as well. [00:06:38] Speaker A: But. [00:06:41] Speaker B: They had a cartoon back in the day, I think. Hannah Barbera, I was such a Hannah Barbera nerd back in the day. Like on the USA cartoon Express deal and all that. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Express. [00:06:48] Speaker B: They had a very limited, like, maybe I don't even know if it had ten episodes, but they had a dukes of Azzard cartoon and all the actors from the show voiced themselves. I find that pretty cool. So I would like to check that out. Eventually I'll get there. [00:07:02] Speaker A: It makes it that much better. They do remarkably good job, I think. Especially Leonard Nimoy. He's still Spock, even in this sort of stilted animation, you know, it's kind of cool. But like I said, the plots are pretty, they're all like the whole crew shrinks or they find this sea monster. It's all very, not very scientific, just really for fun. It was really made for kids, but there was certainly enough there for the fans, I think, to appreciate. So that's kind of cool. So I'm almost done with that. And I know everybody listening to this probably knows this already, but Star Trek prodigy, that paramount plus inexplicably dropped, got picked up by Netflix. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:07:41] Speaker A: The whole first season, all 20 episodes, I think it's 20, are airing on Netflix. And that's the final frontier for me. That's the last show I've never seen. So after animated series, it's prodigy, and then that's it. [00:07:53] Speaker B: You're a completeist. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Yeah, if I'm calculating, that's eleven shows that are all consumed. Yeah. So that'll be good. Actually, I'm looking forward to. [00:08:03] Speaker B: I think that if you send that in to the Star Trek folks, that they will mail you the 100% official nerd certificate in the mail. [00:08:12] Speaker A: I'll get my official geek badge, wear. [00:08:15] Speaker B: It at you proudly, and you can never have sex again. But you know what? It's fun. God bless. [00:08:21] Speaker A: You know what? To quote George, there was a good chance I was never going to have sex again anyway. That's George Costanza of. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Know. I wanted to say to, I have to throw a shout out there. Know, again, not being a Star Trek fan, you put on my radar that we have a fan of ours that is a non Star Trek fan that I absolutely buried or went after a little too hard in the. So over the holidays, we hung out for a New Year's Eve party and we played a little LCR wild card game, whatever the hell it was. And the poor girl, forgive me, I forget her name now, but I kept stealing her money and I felt like a moron because you told me, this is our biggest fan. What was the young lady's name? [00:08:59] Speaker A: Gianna. Shout out to Gianna. [00:09:01] Speaker B: Gianna, right? Yes, please. A shout out to her. To Gianna. Thank you for listening, and I'm sorry about being an ass during the game. What can I do? [00:09:11] Speaker A: Yeah, she was like, are you kidding me? Yeah, it was fun. New Year's Eve was fun. [00:09:18] Speaker B: It was fun. And Angel's 50th. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Yeah, my wife's 50th birthday. So that's on New Year's Eve. That was fun. Good times, man. And, yeah, so the holidays, all that's out of the way, man. This is 2024. We're going to kick back into this podcast thing and hit the ground running, hopefully. [00:09:34] Speaker B: And it was funny because I was, like, joking before about the housekeeping. I can't remember what the hell the last episode we talked about. Did we have any housekeeping to address? Do you remember anything? You said it was the worst next. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Gen. Yeah, worst next gen episodes. You know what did I do the solo one, maybe? I did the solo one. [00:09:52] Speaker B: Oh, you did one in between. That's right. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. Topic, top ten next generation season one episodes, right? [00:10:00] Speaker B: That's right. [00:10:01] Speaker A: So I realized there's a great lot of material to mind there with the 21 seasons of really my three favorite shows. They each have these long seasons with 20 plus episodes, most of them. So it's a great way to kind of break down each season, especially if you're a big fan of next gen. It'd be fun for you to watch. If you just like d space and you're not a next gen fan, are you going to want to listen to top ten season two next generation episodes? Probably not, but I find it interesting. So hopefully the passion for what I'm into comes across, and hopefully people enjoyed that one. Yeah. [00:10:35] Speaker B: No, again, I don't know shit about the show, but I listened to it and I enjoyed it. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Well, thank you. They're always fun to do. It's nowhere near as good as doing it with you and doing it with you and Luke, but it is what it is, man. I love talking about Trek, and sometimes I got to do it and I can't help myself. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Listen, I'm glad you did because, I don't know, I was Mia for during the holidays a lot there. But you know what? We're back. Speaking of being back, what do we have today, Phil? What's the topic? [00:11:04] Speaker A: I'm glad. Yeah. Speaking of podcasts that some people may not give a shit about, we're talking about top ten Quark episodes. Yeah. We're going to start diving into the individual characters talking about their episodes. We did Picard episodes. And not that Quark is the next in line to get his own episode thing, but I was thinking about Quark, and I love the character and I love D space nine. And there's a lot of real comedic episodes there. Most of them are played for comedy. Bomber, you'd like them. You're going to appreciate some of the ones on the list, no question about it, especially the titles. And, yeah, we're going to talk about Quark, man. So Quark is a character on, you know, I sent you a little synopsis of Quark so you can get a look know. Quark is the guy with the Ross Perot ears and the ass for a head, as you were so famous for pointing out, played by actor Armin Shimmerman. [00:11:53] Speaker B: I thought it was a known thing. Know, Peter Griffin's got balls on his chin or whatever. You know what? This guy. A lot of people had to call this guy an asshead back in the day. No, I mean, I'm sure they did. [00:12:04] Speaker A: Mathematically, but I don't remember ever hearing, like, a Trek fan call him an asshead. [00:12:09] Speaker B: And you sent me a thing there, by the way. It said Ferengi. Now I forget if that's. Is he a bad guy or a good guy or is it. [00:12:16] Speaker A: He's a good. Know. [00:12:18] Speaker B: He's a good guy, so to speak. [00:12:19] Speaker A: He's a complex character we'll get into. So technically, he's a good guy, I would say. Yeah. [00:12:24] Speaker B: And you sent me to whatever, the fan page, this thing with all the information. I thought I was reading an encyclopedia. The information on this guy. I went all the way down to the bottom and said, you're still here? I was like, what are we doing here? [00:12:39] Speaker A: The fan page he's talking about, folks, is memory Alpha. And any real big Star Trek fans know what memory Alpha is. It's pretty much the definitive source for Trek information. So anytime I don't know the name of an alien species or something, I just go to memory Alpha, try to. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Type it in, man. If you got to go there, I'm fucked. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Hey, believe me, as some of our listeners know, my memory lately has been not what it used to be. And there are tons and tons of Trek fans out there with way more encyclopedic knowledge. [00:13:10] Speaker B: I've always felt the same way about me, like three stooges or even Star wars. I would be like, there's definitely people out there that know way more than I do. So it's like, yeah, I'm with you there? Okay. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Well, look at your friend who I never thought I'd find a bigger godfather two fan, you know what I mean? Than me. But your buddy is kind of like your budy is. What's your budy? Sorry, I forget his name. [00:13:30] Speaker B: Joey. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Yeah, the one who. He shot me. The question that Robert De Niro only says three lines in English in the whole movie. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:13:39] Speaker A: And the rest is italian. And I think I got two of them and then I couldn't remember the third one. Oh, yeah. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Of know, it's probably Joey. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Yeah, probably Joey. Yeah. Godfather too. So. Yeah, so, you know, we're going to rock some quirk today. So, like I was saying. So Quark is played by the actor Armin Shimmerman. You know him as Stan the caddy from. [00:14:01] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, I do. [00:14:03] Speaker A: I mean, he's done a ton of other things, but he was on Buffy for a couple of seasons as the principal of the school and that kind of stuff. But for the most part, yeah. He's probably more well known in some circles as a stan the Caddy from season seven of Seinfeld. Great episode. That was the episode where Sulan Mishki wore the bra without the shirt and Jerry got into the know where they go to the OJ spoof where they go to court and they try on the bra. [00:14:32] Speaker B: That's right. Wow. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Good episode. Hey, you know what? Jackie from Seinfeld, he was in an episode of Star Trek Enterprise. A really good one, as a matter of fact. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Really? [00:14:41] Speaker A: He played an early 21st century astronaut and they found his logs, like 100 years later. And it was kind of cool. It's a good episode. I can't remember the name of the episode. Oh, maybe friendship one, I think it was called. But good episode. Phil Morris, I want to say, is the actor's name. [00:14:56] Speaker B: And we know George Costanza was on Star Trek. Right. [00:15:00] Speaker A: I'm still loving life that you tied in the fact that Jason Alexander wanted seven on both shows. That's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me. How did I not realize that? How did I never put that way? [00:15:13] Speaker B: When it comes to Star Trek, who doesn't want seven? I mean, what are we doing? [00:15:17] Speaker A: No question. Yeah. So Armin Shimmerman, he's a lot of fun. So, yeah, a little bit about the Frankie before we dive in. So the Ferengi, they started out on next gen as an enemy. They were supposed to be a menacing annoyance, like a menacing pest. They were certainly dangerous to the next gen crew, but they were kind of like just petty and sort of animal know. They were kind of weird. They were very feral and know, sort of just underdeveloped. When you got to get. When you get to know the Frankie a little later, it turns out they're really just capitalists. They're all about greed and money and profit and that's all that matters to them. Pretty one dimensional, even throughout the rest of next gen. But then D space and I decided to have a Ferengi character. So Quark runs the bar on this space station at the frontier of space. Right? Frontier of the wormhole. He's a bartender. He runs bartender gambling. He runs a whole establishment, Quark's bar. And he was a foil to Odo, the security chief. They'd constantly be going back and forth. Odo's trying to figure out what Quark's up to. Quark's trying to play cat and mouse with Odo. I mentioned them on our trek. Friendships pod. That was a nice little relationship they had going. So. Yeah, so Quark, you could imagine that was used in a lot of b stories and for a lot of comic relief. But the important thing to remember about Quark and the Ferengis on D space nine is that they gave depth to the species, right? So they took what was a one dimensional character on next gen and really fleshed them out, gave them a heart and soul. They were still uber capitalists and they still just relied on profit and greed. But they were hilarious. They had a heart. Turns out they're not as like one dimensional as you think. So Quark really put a face on that species. He could have played it one dimensionally, but he really gave it some depth over the course of seven seasons. Yeah. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Now, I didn't read too much into the thing you had sent me because I didn't want my girlfriend to leave me, but I wanted to ask. Stupid there. So how many shows did he span? As I was an agent. Now, you said he ran into deep space. Is he in all the shows, like from next gen on or is. Give me a little bit of the timeline there. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Yeah, no problem. So he started out on t space nine, the character of Quark, and then he actually was on next generation for a little cameo, a fun little cameo in the 7th season, I want to say the 7th season. He ended up in the first episode of Voyager. So there was kind of a tradition there. So on the first episode of D Space nine, Picard was in it and the enterprise was on it. It sort of passed the baton to the next show. So Voyager did that as well, it started out they were stationed at D space nine before they went on their mission, and they were at Quark's bar. And he was the only character from D space nine who was on Voyager. He also ended up on lower decks. He played his own character on lower decks. That was that cartoon picture on memory Alpha. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Yes. Okay, I saw that. Okay, I did see that. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean, by my count, he was in at least four trek shows. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's funny. When you sent it to me, I saw the name Quark, and I'm like, you did that already? Because I was thinking it was that guy Q, but that's the other guy. Completely different. [00:18:26] Speaker A: Two different people. Yeah. So Quark's a lovable character. He's a conniving little petty dude at times, but from what I could tell, fans love him. I always thought he was a great character. He wouldn't say, oh, Cork's my favorite character in D space. Not most likely, you wouldn't say that, but a lot of fun. Whenever it was a ferengi episode, you were never like, ah, fuck. You know what? Even on. Even on next gen. And again, this isn't the fault of the actors, but if it was a consular Troy episode, you might have been like, all right, I'll watch it. But with Quark, you're always like, all right, at least we're going to get something funny, maybe something different, something interesting. [00:19:05] Speaker B: Cool. [00:19:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, so he's the character I picked. We're going to break down the top ten Quark episodes. No honorable mentions, no parrot. Sketch not included. Man, we're just diving right in. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Okay. So did want to read. I decided to, because lately I've been getting the IMDb fan ratings for these episodes, if I have them. So I'm going to read the synopsis as well from IMDb for each episode. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:32] Speaker A: It'll more concisely help you out, and it'll just remind the fans of which episode we're talking about. And lastly, before we get going, yeah, hit us up on Instagram and TikTok at Stwarp 10 and you can email us at Stwarp [email protected]. Let us know how we're doing. If we're good, bad. Let us know your top ten quirk episodes. Let us know your top ten. Hey, seven episodes. Let us know your top ten Seinfeld episodes. That would be fun to hear as well. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Something. [00:19:56] Speaker A: All right, so here we go. Top ten quirk episodes. Number ten rules of acquisition. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Okay. All right. [00:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's. [00:20:09] Speaker B: I got to chime in. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Here a little bit, but it's funny. Sounds intense. When me, you and Luke were doing the Picard episodes and every time Luke would say his or I would say mine and the other would go, oh, awesome. You'd always be in the. You know. And we heard it. It was like you wanted to. So, rules of acquisition. So a little background with the title alone. So the Ferengi follow the rules of acquisition. That's their religion. And the rules of acquisition are ways to make the most profit in your life. So, any real Ferengi businessman? Only the males follow the rules of acquisition. This episode happens to be titled that. So, rules of acquisition. So a female Ferengi named Pell, posing as a male so that she can engage in business falls for quark during very important negotiations between the Ferengi and a gamma quadrant race. So, yeah, lot going on there, of course, but. IMDb rating of 7.4. So not bad. I was delightfully surprised that a lot of these quark episodes were pretty high on the list. So, rules of acquisition is fun. So women aren't allowed on Ferenganar or in the Ferengi empire. They're not allowed to make profit. It's a very misogynistic race. They're very old fashioned and they may have been canceled these days. You know what I mean? They may not be on. [00:21:34] Speaker B: There's no question race like that, they're gone. But it's funny. I wanted to throw in there, like my kind of place, but then I'm canceled. What I was going to say was, I admire the girl getting in there. I mean, it takes guts to do that, to go visit, but then she has to fall in love and you had a plan. You were going to be gutsy and then you messed it up. [00:21:58] Speaker A: She fell for him. So she did the whole thing. She dressed like a man, she taped her chest, that kind of thing. [00:22:02] Speaker B: It's like. Now, what was that movie on HBO when we were kids? All the time, from the 80s. What makes me think. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Just one of the guys. [00:22:09] Speaker B: Just one of the guys. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Of course. I love that movie. She's the man, right? What, Amanda by. And she later did that? [00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Or something. So it's similar type thing. They're not breaking any ground with this episode here. It was just a fun episode. It's fun to watch Quark get excited about profit. So he just lives for that. He lives for that. And this woman. He doesn't know it's a woman. This woman comes along and she's got some great ideas for Quark and she's just trying to kiss his ass to get some more profit. And he's fine with it until he realizes she's a woman. And then you could bankrupt the Ferengi if you realize they did business with a woman. Again, very misogynistic, very old fashioned. [00:22:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Nothing groundbreaking about the episode. I liked it. It was an interesting choice. It was season two, so Cork's character was kind of just getting going. He didn't do much in the first season. They didn't really give him too much growth. He was just kind of there. Like I said before, it's like the comedy relief, the b story, Odo chasing him around occasionally. He was involved in a good plot point but for the most part, he didn't do much in season one. So season two, they kicked it off and they got him going with rules of acquisition. Good episode. Just fun. That's it. One more thing to take note of is you learn more about the Ferengi culture every time there's a quark episode. So that's kind of cool. They kind of don't necessarily. That's not true. They do do that with other races but it was fun learning more about Ferengis. [00:23:43] Speaker B: It's funny for some reason when you talked about how early on they didn't give him much to do this and that I'm picturing, like, young quark or something like that. He doesn't come into his own until he gets the crack on his head. It's a bald head completely. And then when he gets his fucking shit together he gets the ass crack in the middle. I don't know. That'd be kind of like a growth spurt or something. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Well, you know what's funny is the big ears. The Ross peroyers come into play. So the ears are the prominent feature of Ferengi's face. Right. So they sort of leaned into that. It wasn't established on next gen but they used the makeup they did on next gen to create expressions like, oh, he's got the lobes for business. He's got the ears for business. He listen out for an opportunity kind of stuff. So they kind of leaned into that. The females have smaller lobes than men do. So she actually also had prosthetic ears to make them even bigger. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Oh, cool. [00:24:36] Speaker A: Than they were to match the guy's stuff. [00:24:37] Speaker B: So, yeah, she thought this out. All right. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Interesting episode. I mean, it is what it is. Like I said, 7.4 in IMDb. It sounds about right to me. Maybe I would have put it a little lower, like it's not spectacular, but good app. All right. Good app. [00:24:51] Speaker B: All right, Roger, what do we got for number nine here? [00:24:54] Speaker A: Number nine? A fan favorite. It's only nine for me. It's called the House of Quark. So, the house of Quark is a Klingon. Sort of a Klingon pun. So wharf. His father is mogue. So he is from the house of Moog. Right. I'm from the house of. We're all. I used to call my father panda. So we're all from. Everyone in Kleon is from a certain house. It's like old school, like english royalty kind of thing. Right. House of Tudor. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Unfortunately, my father's name was Richard so I'm from the house of. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Mean. [00:25:33] Speaker B: What are the ods there? [00:25:35] Speaker A: What are the odds? You mean the ods that you would turn out to be? Makes total sense. The house of Quark. Quark is forced to marry a Klingon widow after he takes credit for the accidental death of her husband, the head of a powerful Klingon house. So, Klingons are known the galaxy over for being drunken louts and pretty much just rabble rousers. So this Klingon's in Quark's bar. He's going a little too far. Quark gets into a fight with him. He does not want to get into a fight with him. He's scared shitless but accidentally falls on top of him. And the blade that the Klingon pulls out kills the guy. Turns out that his widow is not too upset that the guy died. Apparently, he was a big douche. And Groka, the closest to Klingon, in my opinion has gotten to looking really good. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Well, I was going to ask that question right away. I was like, if he was forced to marry this girl it's like one of those things with the arranged marriages. I always feel bad for the poor woman or guy that gets dealt a bad hand there. So this sounds like this worked out pretty well. [00:26:41] Speaker A: I don't want to be racist. I don't find full fledged Klingons attractive. I'm sorry. I just don't. Balana Torres. A half Klingon. Very attractive. I can't have too many ridges. The ridges are sort of subdued. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Rough. Okay. Yeah. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Digging balana Torres. But yeah, no. So she was a good looking. Good looking woman. Let's see. House of Quark, 8.1 on IMTV. [00:27:06] Speaker B: I was going to ask. [00:27:07] Speaker A: That's pretty high. All right. It's a fan favorite. It's pretty good. So this was a fun episode, Quark and grilka. I can't remember the actress's name. I'm sorry. But the one who played the Klingon, grilka, they had great chemistry. It was a lot of fun back and forth. She had to sort of teach him because then he has to go to the Klingon homeworld and take control of the house. You know what I mean? He's got to be the patriarch now and Quark's this tiny little scared Ferengi. So you can imagine the comedy that ensues. But it turns out Quark. Part of what makes him better and part of what fletched out the Ferengi is that Quark is actually quite brave. He can be chivalrous when he needs to. Ultimately, his moral compass is where it's supposed to be and most varengis it absolutely is not. So that's kind of how they humanized him. They kind of made him in the long run. He would do the right thing. He'd sell weapons. He'd be a weapons dealer. But once he realized it was, like, biological weapons. It's just an example because there is a similar episode like this later on my list. But ultimately, he would make the right. Do the right thing. But he was unscrupulous, for sure. That was a mess. I'm going to go ahead and admit that I was kind of all over the place there. [00:28:17] Speaker B: What do you think? No. Like I said, it makes each episode that you dissect interesting because it's good to be all over the map sometimes. I think it's fine. You're doing fine. [00:28:30] Speaker A: All right. We're going to move on. So, number eight. Is that right? [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yes, it is number eight. [00:28:35] Speaker A: All right. So number eight is profit motive. Okay? That's A-P-R-O-P-H-E-T. Motive. Okay? Plays into it. That's an IMDb. So they do like profits. It's a play on Ferengi profits, blah, blah, blah. This is a 6.7 on IMDb. So not as well received as some other. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Actually, the lowest so far, but the highest on your list. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Interesting. True. That's true. So let's check it out. Let's check out profit motive. I have a little synopsis here. [00:29:07] Speaker B: Let me hear about profit motive. [00:29:09] Speaker A: So Grand Negus Zek is acting bizarre. By giving away money and rewriting the rules of acquisition, Quark attempts to get the old Negus back. So this is a fun episode. So, like I told you, the rules of acquisition are pretty much the Bible that Ferengi follow. Okay? And Grand Negus Zek is more or less the leader of the Ferengi. Hence he has the best lobes for business. So Zek is supposed to be the end all, be all of business and profit. So all the Ferengis look up to him because he makes all these wise decisions and he's accumulated all this profit in his life. So he shows up on deep space nine and just starts giving money away. Ferengis do not give money away. Ferengis do not tip. Ferengis do know every penny counts, right? So Quark is like pretty much his hero is now acting the exact opposite of how he should be acting. So Quark is all. He's all messed up. So he's trying to figure out if there's an ulterior motive. Really funny. So Quark's got a brother named Rom and them going back and forth trying to figure out what Zek's actually doing. Right down to the great scene where the new rules of acquisition are in his hand and Quark's like. He's like. And then he licks the spine and he's. No, no, that's so it's really funny scene. And of know, the grand Negus comes on the station and he immediately takes over Quark's quarters. And Quark has to go live with his brother. So there's a lot of OD couple kind of stuff that ensues there. Quark realizes that Ron's been stealing from the bar. Shit like that. So it was really funny. Good episode. Who does not love Wallace? Sean's Wallace. Sean plays grand Negusek. I want to say he played him in at least six of the seven seasons on Deep Space nine. At least five seasons. So I got to imagine he was in a handful of episodes. Maybe six, seven, eight. You can look that up for the next pod. [00:31:00] Speaker B: But he's been around forever too. I mean, he's been in so many things. [00:31:03] Speaker A: I feel like. Yeah, he's probably most famous for being in the princess bride. Yeah, he was in the battle of wits with Carrie Elwies with the dread pirate Roberts. Yeah. So that's a famous scene where he just kills over mid laugh and really, really funny movie. Really funny stuff. And while it's showing, it's great. Yeah. Profit motive. Just a really fun, really fun comedic episode. And these episodes, none of these are the b story. I should point that out. These are all quirk episodes. These are all where he's the a story. And sometimes it was just played for profit. I mean, for profit for comedy. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Sorry, do you feel like this has a lower rating because it's more comedic? Or is it like. You disagree with the rating? I would guess. [00:31:42] Speaker A: I mean, I do. I enjoy this a little more. Is it because I liked season three of d space better than season? You know, I think Quark was a little more developed. I think they were certainly more comfortable in their character skins per se. And they were able to kind of just focus on the dynamic between the brothers and the dynamic between Zek and Quark. It was just a lot of fun to watch, is one of the episodes. And it's also maybe personal. It's one of the season three of these faces, I think, when I first started watching it with my father. So maybe there's a little emotion, like a little nostalgia there for this particular season. Who knows? Who knows how it plays into it? But I do love this episode. It's a lot of fun. [00:32:19] Speaker B: All right, so that was number eight. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. So we're moving on. Number seven. Number seven. Wallace Sean. Again, this is an episode called the Negus. This is the Negus from season one, d space nine. [00:32:33] Speaker B: Wallace Sean is in it again. [00:32:34] Speaker A: He is so in this episode, d space nine, season one. This is where you first got introduced to who the Negus was the leader of the Ferengi people. Like I said on next chat, we never fleshed out who the Ferengi were, really. They were just this weird enemy with these weird whip weapons. But they decided to really dive in and let us know what the Frengi culture was all about. And season one was the start. I got a little. Oh, what do you got? [00:32:57] Speaker B: I have the Nagas here. I have the IMDb. I'll give you one here. Are you ready? [00:33:01] Speaker A: You're going to do it? Go for it. Yeah. Let's hear it. [00:33:03] Speaker B: All right. The Nagas, season one, episode ten. The Ferengay leader, Grand Negus Zek, comes to the station. He seems very interested in Cork's bar. That's all I got. [00:33:16] Speaker A: That's it. That's all it said. [00:33:17] Speaker B: 7.0. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Okay. I think it gets a little higher, Mark, because it was the first appearance of. I mean, that's pretty much like. I do like the world building that the episode did. It was really interesting to see Quark sort of tossed into know, frightful state. Know? It'd be like if the president came over for dinner. Right? That's really what it would be like. And you'd be frantic. Holy shit. Where's the dessert? You know what I mean? So it's kind of like the Negus just walks into his fun. It was fun watching Negus Zek interact with the other characters on the show as well. So even though Starfleet unofficially thinks that the Ferengi are kind of a joke, they're still diplomatic about it. They're still a benevolent peace organization. Federation of to. And Ferengi is not a part of the Federation. But they're going to treat him dignitary with respect. But he's such a creep. He's so misogynistic and he's just hitting on Kira and he's trying to bribe her with helping fucking war orphans and shit. So just interesting seeing that whole dynamic. Really fun. If you go back and watch the first season of d space nine, it's hit or miss, of course, like a lot of those early show first seasons, but some of them are just a lot of fun. They just kind of went for it. And I like that. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Right? [00:34:41] Speaker A: So, yeah, it's good. It's worth watching. So, yeah, it was a 7.0. I would have put it a little lower, but here it is, higher on my list. What the hell am I talking about? [00:34:52] Speaker B: Yeah, there you go. So far, the highest one so far for you was your 9th pick. [00:34:56] Speaker A: I believe House of Quark was an 8.1. But don't worry, we got some higher ones coming up. [00:35:01] Speaker B: All right, let's go. Number six. [00:35:03] Speaker A: So this is where it starts getting fun. Okay, so I'll admit this. Ten, nine, eight, seven. They're good episodes, but it's not like, boom, they got to be on the list. But six down. These are fun bangers. [00:35:14] Speaker B: All right, so let me ask you now, for regular Star Trek fans, your seven 8910 might not be on everyone else's, but you think that these six would probably. Most of these six would probably be on people's top ten. [00:35:26] Speaker A: I mean, if they're doing just quark episodes, I can't imagine they're not. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Okay, I like that. All right. [00:35:31] Speaker A: Yeah, they're good. Now, there was probably about 15 or 16 quote unquote quirk episodes. So it wasn't like you had to whittle a lot away to get down to it because it is just the character specific stuff. And I did just stick to the ones that were an a story, not a b story. But these are good. These are really good. So this next episode is called Body Parts. Now, this is kind of interesting. This is another fun little quirk with the Ferengi people. So 7.4 on IMDb, and here's the synopsis. All right. After an accident, see? Okay. I'm not going to read this last part of the synopsis because I want to tell you about it. The only thing with the b story has nothing to do with Quark but it's fucking fascinating. It's a great Star Trek b story. So Quark hears he's going to die he gets bad news from Frenginar. He knows he's going to die. So Ferengi tradition is you can sell off your body parts so you can make enough profit to get into not heaven, but the divine treasury. So basically, with Frengi culture, yeah, if you are in the green, you go to heaven. If you're in the red, you go to hell. So if you don't make enough profit in your life to be at least break even, you go to hell. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:36:40] Speaker A: Right? [00:36:40] Speaker B: Now, if I was a Ferengi, I'm Satan's best friend right now, by the way. [00:36:49] Speaker A: Ferengi. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Ferengi. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Gee, you've said Ferengi four times. And you know why? [00:36:56] Speaker B: Because I thought the spelling was maybe because of the way it's spelled. Maybe I'm fucking this up. [00:37:01] Speaker A: But I'm saying that you're supposed to know. Why would you know that? [00:37:04] Speaker B: Oh, it's just gi. Okay. [00:37:05] Speaker A: It's just gi. Yeah. [00:37:08] Speaker B: I don't know. I want my balls busted. I want to learn a little bit here, but. Oh, my God. [00:37:14] Speaker A: So that's funny. Yeah. So that's Ferengi culture. So it's all about profit. So that's literally their religion. So when you die and you know you're going to die you could sell off your body parts make enough money to be in the green and then you get to go to the divine treasury. Okay, so that's what Ferengi's believe. So, Quark, being a diehard Ferengi, he finds out he's going to die starts selling off his body parts, sells them. Turns out he's not going to die. Got the wrong information. But a contract is a contract is a contract. That's one of the rules of acquisition. So one of his mortal enemies bought his parts and comes to claim it. So now he's got two choices. He can either kill himself and give him the body parts and honor the contract or he can be disband by the Ferengi commerce authority. So I won't tell you how. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Got. I got to be honest here. Depending on what part he's selling here this could get dicey. This is rough. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Sold them all. Every part. So he sold off all? [00:38:14] Speaker B: No, I got you there. But I'm saying. So they all went to this one guy or this one guy only bought, like, one part? [00:38:19] Speaker A: No, he bought them all. I'm pretty sure that he bought them all. Yeah. And I think it was brunt, if I'm remembering correctly, one of his enemies. So, yeah. So Quark, being the faithful Ferengi he is says, all right, I'm going to do this. So eventually, he gets convinced to not kill himself. He ultimately doesn't want to kill himself. So at the end of the episode, he gets banned from the Ferengi commerce authority. They come, they take his whole bar away and take everything away. All of his assets, I should say. Really touching moment at the end. So the rest of the station, Starfleet, they all bring in stuff so they all donate chairs and this and that and they all kind of keep his business running. And there's a great moment where Quark never realized the Ferengi, who only focused on profit didn't realize there were other things of value in his life. Cool ending. Cool ending to the episode. One of the reasons I like it. Second reason I like it is because there's a great, great b story, a great Star Trek B story. So a lot of fans might remember that. The B story in this episode is that Kira Keiko, who's pregnant with Chief O'Brien's baby are coming back on a shuttlecraft with the doctor. A crash happens, Keiko gets injured. The baby is about to die. So in order to save it Bashir puts the baby in someone else's stomach like, right there on the spot. And it was a really clever way because the actress who ended up getting the baby was really pregnant in real life. So it was a very cool, clever Star Trek way to make that pregnancy work on the show. And it was just a great plot device because for the rest of the season they had someone else carrying the character's baby. It wasn't just a one off so they literally made other plots about it. So it was a really fun sort of Star Trek thing to do. Know, I don't think they trans. Maybe. Did they transport it from one stomach to another? Maybe they did. I'm not remembering that, but. [00:40:13] Speaker B: Wow, I'd never heard of that before. This is interesting. [00:40:17] Speaker A: After an accident Bashir has to move Keiko's baby to Kira's womb. You don't really hear many plots like that when you watch tv. [00:40:23] Speaker B: No, I would say not. [00:40:25] Speaker A: All kidding aside, that's one of the cool things about Star Trek that I like. They can do shit like that. They earn it. They pull it off and it's fun to watch the consequences. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Wow. [00:40:33] Speaker A: There you go. Body parts. A shockingly and surprisingly fun emotional episode for Quark. Armin Shimmerman did an amazing job, as did for playing his brother. Would you know him from anything? No, probably not. I don't think you'd know him from anything, really. I don't think I know anything else. [00:40:54] Speaker B: And this was only number six. So we got top five coming up here. This is getting heavy here. [00:40:59] Speaker A: It is getting heavy. And let's keep moving, man, because we got some fun stuff here. So this is a weird one on my list. So this is number five. It's called profit and loss. Okay. 7.2 on IMDb. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Now, is this profit profit? [00:41:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's exactly. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:15] Speaker A: It's profit and loss profit. So this is weird. This is one of those episodes, like, the plot does not blow you away. Let me read you the synopsis. A cardassian woman named Natima Lang, who was once a flame of quarks, visits the station under dubious circumstances. So nothing groundbreaking there, right? So we have a Cardassian who comes up on the station. Apparently, her and Quark have a past, have a history. She is good looking. It's really hard to believe that she'd be into someone like Quark. But Quark is charming and he's funny and he knows how to make profit. He's a provider. [00:41:49] Speaker B: It's in the eyes of the beholder. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Different strokes. I agree 100%. So, once you get past that, they have a really interesting sort of dynamic together. They have great chemistry. But she is on the station under suspicious circumstances. So it turns out she's there with some cardassian dissidents who are pretty much running from the government. And she's kind of looking for asylum on D space nine. At the same time, her and Quark are kind of thinking about reigniting the flame, so to speak. Nothing spectacular, just a really great growth moment for Quark. So you've never seen Quark love anything more than profit up to this point, even when he was being moral or doing something else. So this is season three on D space, but now he's in love and it's changing the way he thinks. The old feelings are igniting everything inside him and he doesn't care about profit here and there. And it was just a great stretch for Quark. It didn't blow you away as a viewer, but it was great to see that character spread his wings a little bit. Here's why it's so high on the list for some reason, and I cannot put my finger on it, this was one of the episodes that I'd always reach for and put on. This was one of the episodes when I had the vhs up on the shelf right in my room. All them tracks, I would always grab this one. This one became comfort food for some reason. [00:43:05] Speaker B: Don't know why. I know episodes of shows like that. Like you're saying, yeah, you're just like, let me put this on, because I just want this on. I don't know. [00:43:13] Speaker A: Right. It is interesting. I have that with every show. Pretty much like, there are seinfeld episodes that if I put it on, maybe because it reminds you of a certain era in your life or, know, next Gen west wing. Certain episodes I just put on, I want to hear them in the background. I just want to fall asleep listening to them. This was one of those episodes. [00:43:30] Speaker B: It's funny because profit and loss is kind of like the microcosm of every Star Trek fan, because you watch the show and you're gaining all the knowledge of this nerd world and friends and everything else, and then you're losing so much time and so many friends. So, I mean, it's amazing. It's really the whole thing in a nutshell. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. [00:43:52] Speaker B: Holy shit. Half the people just shut this right off. [00:43:56] Speaker A: No, they're just. They're on the way to your house. I don't know how they know how you live. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Yeah, me either, but I got to get out of here. [00:44:03] Speaker A: That's hilarious. Number five. [00:44:06] Speaker B: I like that, though. No, I was going to say, now, what was the rating they gave this? [00:44:10] Speaker A: Okay, so that was 7.27.2. Okay. [00:44:14] Speaker B: No, it's just funny that I love the idea of. It's almost like. I know. Now, newsflash, we're hopefully going to soon release some episodes of another podcast during the high five there with our top five list. That's an interesting one right there, because if you had to name your favorite top five episodes ever of Star Trek, profit and loss might not be there, but it might be one that you go to. [00:44:38] Speaker A: That's an interesting. [00:44:40] Speaker B: It's different, isn't it? It's so different. It's interesting. [00:44:43] Speaker A: It is. I think you were talking about, like, top five ever. But even top five comfort food tv episodes will be a great. [00:44:51] Speaker B: That's what I mean. Exactly. [00:44:52] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. Phenomenal. It'd be so much fun. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Definitely. [00:44:54] Speaker A: And I guarantee there'd be a couple of tracks on there, but maybe. I mean, at least one, for sure. Yeah, that's fun. That's a fun little. Sky's the limit, baby. [00:45:03] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. So anything else on profit and loss? [00:45:07] Speaker A: That's all I got for profit and loss. It found its way right in the middle of the list because it's just comfort food and I love it. Good things about it, but there it is. All right. Number four, numero quattro. Here we go. We're going to get into it now. Business as usual is the name of the episode. 7.2 IMDb rating this guy was starring Steven Burkoff. Do you know the name? [00:45:34] Speaker B: It sounds familiar. Why do I know the name? [00:45:36] Speaker A: He's in a bunch of stuff. So Stephen Burkhoff played Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop. He was James Bond villain in Octopusy. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:45:47] Speaker A: You know this guy for sure, right? Yeah. You see his face and anyone who's alive in the 80s kind of knows who he is. Right. So he was phenomenal in this great guest actor. [00:45:57] Speaker B: One of the Rambo movies, too, I think. [00:45:58] Speaker A: Oh, dead right. He was in part two. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Rambo two. [00:46:01] Speaker A: He was the. Right. 100% right. He was the guy who was telling the other guy to electrocute him. Right. He was the. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Yes. [00:46:08] Speaker A: There you go. There you go. That was an awesome scene, that whole movie that was on tv. [00:46:11] Speaker B: I love that movie. [00:46:12] Speaker A: I was trying to convey to my daughter's boyfriend, Jacoby, how epic it was seeing that in theater in 1982. I'd never seen an action movie like that in my life. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Wow. [00:46:24] Speaker A: There were no action movies like that before that. [00:46:26] Speaker B: See, I didn't see it in theater. That must have been. Yeah, exactly. Back then. Yeah. That must have been something to see. [00:46:30] Speaker A: That me, my brother and my father saw that. It was just like. That was fucking epic, man. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:46:36] Speaker A: It was so good. It's such a step up, action wise from the first 1st blood. You know what I mean? [00:46:41] Speaker B: No doubt. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Not a better film. I think the first Rambo movie is definitely a better film. [00:46:46] Speaker B: I agree with you. [00:46:47] Speaker A: It made it so much fun. It was so. [00:46:49] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:46:49] Speaker A: Who doesn't love Rambo? First blood, part two. Awesome. So, yes, Steven Burkhoff. So he was phenomenal in a. He looks like he had so much fun playing this character. Just dripping. Each line just dripping from his lips. He was so good in this episode and the episode. So Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants. A very simplistic puppet. But that's pretty much what it is. So Quark is down on his luck, actually, after he did not sell his parts off. Right. So he was still kind of trying to recover from that. So his cousin shows up on the station, his cousin, who he knows is an arms dealer and says, hey, look on the hush hush. I'll get you your profits back. Let's come into business with me and my guy, right? So he meets the guy, and it's phenomenal. He's making money hand over fist. A really great Star Trek twist on this is that they wanted to use Quark's bar because he had the hollow know. You could play make believe and create whatever environment you wanted. We talked about that episode. So they would go in there and they would try out the weapons there and not have to worry about the authorities, not have to worry about hurting anybody. They could just try out all the weapons in the. You know, Cork knows how to show people the good time. So he'd bring in these people to buy these weapons. He'd get them laid in the Holl suite by these Orion slave girls and then he'd sell them a bunch of weapons, not really thinking about what the weapons were being bought to do, you know what I mean? So that's where the morality kicks in. So his conscience starts kicking in when the rest of the station, for the first time, thought he crossed the line and just disowned him. So Cisco, Dax, all the Starfleet personnel who always saw him as sort of a lovable rascal, right? [00:48:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:33] Speaker A: They start just ignoring him. Like, you've gone too far. Fuck you. So that made him kind of double think what he was doing. He realized, he started asking questions like, well, what are these weapons going to be used for? That kind of shit? So really, the whole episode from then on is a fun way to see quark sort of safely extricate himself from this problem, this quagmire that he's in. So it's a lot of fun. So the first half is watching him have fun, get his mojo back, and really enjoying Steven Burkhoff in this episode. But then second half turns serious and he has to find a way out of it without hurting anybody or getting arrested, pretty much. And it's a very satisfying ending. It's a lot of fun. [00:49:16] Speaker B: I was going to say, it makes me feel like I wish there was a spin off. I don't know if Star Trek has done had quarks bar itself, should just be a show almost like cheers in a way. I think a Star wars, if there was just a show about the cantina, you're in there and that would be phenomenal shit. I think that would be fun. [00:49:36] Speaker A: That'd be a lot of fun. And it's funny you mentioned that because I think when I was talking about when I first described d space nine. And I think I described it as a moss Eisley. Right. Like just a way station for pilots. You did. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Right. So it's funny you made that comparison because that's kind of true. And, yeah, I would definitely watch a fucking, like a quarks bar, even. It was, I think, in an episode of Lower Decks. They did visit Quarks bar. I think it's kind of fun. Yeah. So a lot of fun. Good stuff. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Now, this was a 7.1. What was the rating on this? [00:50:08] Speaker A: This was 7.27.2. [00:50:10] Speaker B: Okay, so only one has been below seven so far. Interesting. All right. Out of your ten. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty good. So the next one, number three, is the highest rated episode I got on here. Obviously, in my opinion, not the best one. So number three, and this is a very famous episode. It's called little Green Men. [00:50:29] Speaker B: Little. This is fun men. Okay. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Yeah. You'll appreciate this. They did it before Futurama did it. So listen to this. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Army soldiers. [00:50:38] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Is it. No. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Little green men as referring to aliens. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Oh, okay, right. [00:50:45] Speaker A: Little green men. [00:50:46] Speaker B: I should have thought of that. We're in space. Hello. What the fuck? [00:50:49] Speaker A: Well, that was an expression from the little. Little green men, as it turns out. So Quark gets a ship. He actually wheels and deals and gets himself a ship, something he's always wanted. Calls it Quark's treasure. Ridiculous. And they're going to use the maiden voyage of this ship to take his nephew nog to Starfleet Academy because his nephew nog is joining Starfleet, the first Ferengi in Starfleet. So him, his brother and nog all get on a ship and take off. Something happens, they go back in time, and they end up being the aliens at area 51 in 1947. The Roswell, New Mexico aliens. Very cool. [00:51:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it really is. I like that. [00:51:32] Speaker A: Tons of fun. Now, Futurama won an Emmy doing a similar episode a few years later. Yeah. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Wow. [00:51:38] Speaker A: It's called Roswell. That ends well. The Futurama episode. A phenomenal episode. And I love Futurama too. But you know what? Star Trek did it first. Making them the aliens in Roswell was kind of. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Got to be honest here. Very cool idea. I like this idea. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Right? It was a lot of fun. So it's all comedy. So they go back and it's like, just watch. Oh, speaking of Rambo two, Charles Napier was played the gentleman. This one. Yes. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Really? [00:52:03] Speaker A: Right? Full circle. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Ironically enough. I'll make it more full circle. He had an episode of the Dukes of Hazard, too. A great Dukes of Hazard episode. He was on Charles Napier. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:52:12] Speaker B: He kidnapped boss hog. It was hilarious. [00:52:14] Speaker A: That's awesome, man. If for anyone who doesn't know who Charles Napier is, rest in peace, Charles Napier. You may know him best in Rambo, I would imagine. [00:52:22] Speaker B: I would think he was the guy. [00:52:24] Speaker A: Who sent Rambo, who abandoned Rambo in Vietnam and then Rambo came back and. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Shoots up the whole room. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Shoots up the whole room and puts the knife and said, you better find him or I'll find you. [00:52:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:35] Speaker A: Great episode. He was in a great episode of Night Court where. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Really? [00:52:41] Speaker A: Yeah. He was the ex husband of this woman who was now married to this total loser geek. Right? And the geek was insulting him. And he know that's what I would expect, the behavior I'd expect from a borderline homo sapien. And Charles Napier goes, I've never even hugged. My father. Thought it was homosexual. Really funny. So, yeah, Charles Napier, he was a great actress. That was fun. So he will play the general in this. So they don't know what to make of these. They're like. They're scared. They're calling them Martians. Of course they think they're Martians and they're really just like. Just acting like normal Ferengi. They're just kind of goofy. And the main nurse and her husband are kind of on their side. So they get the universal translators working that are in their ears, apparently, and they're able to talk to each other. So kind of goes from there. It's kind of funny. Then, of course, they escape. A couple of really nice twists in the episode where it turns out Odo was on the ship and he just pops up. He was hiding on the. Odo's the shapeshifter and he was hiding on the ship to try to catch Quark and he got caught going back in time. He didn't want to, so he ends up popping up on the ship. Yeah. So the four of them trying to escape was kind of funny. They had some help. The people let him escape. Another aspect of Ferengi culture I didn't tell you about. So their erogenous zones are their ears. So that's also why. Another reason why the ears are so big. I mean, when they try to get women to rub their ears. [00:54:11] Speaker B: That's where I thought you were going to go. I was going to tell me something else. All right. [00:54:15] Speaker A: So here they are, completely abusing. So this nurse, this attractive nurse, they keep complaining that their ears are sore and they need to be massaged. So the whole time they got this nurse just rubbing their ears. So a lot of comedy involved there. Nice, fun episode. Great premise. Yeah. Little green men. Just a lot of fun. [00:54:34] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:54:35] Speaker A: It's also an X Files episode called little Green Men. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Okay. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Not funny at all. [00:54:42] Speaker B: No. Now, what was the rating on this one? [00:54:45] Speaker A: Little green men? 8.4. The highest rate of that. [00:54:47] Speaker B: 8.4. That was the highest. All right. That's very impressive. All right. [00:54:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Right? We had 8.1. We had. Yes. So the other two over eight. The last two, see this one, I don't know how this is only a 7.6. This is an amazing episode number two. [00:55:00] Speaker B: So this is number two. All right. [00:55:02] Speaker A: I have to imagine. I know you love asking questions like this. Let me answer it before you ask. I have to imagine most people would know I'm the number one. I have to imagine there's one Ferengi episode, in my opinion, that just stands out as, like, the quintessential Ferengi episode. And that's my number one. But let's get. [00:55:19] Speaker B: And you did mention earlier that there was no Paris sketch not included. So it's not a slam dunk. But you would think that if you had to put money on it, that would probably be most people's one. [00:55:28] Speaker A: I would. I'm pretty certain it's Luke's favorite Frankie episode for one particular reason. But, yeah, we'll get to that. So, number two, another awesome episode. Number two is called who mourns for mourn? Okay. [00:55:42] Speaker B: Who mourns for mourn? [00:55:43] Speaker A: Who mourns for morn? Great episode, great title. Okay, so there's a character called morn on D space nine. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:55:52] Speaker A: Never spoken. But he's always a quarks bar. He just sits there the whole time. He's kind of like he's the D space nine equivalent of Maris or the neighbor from home improvement. Right. So you never saw what's his face's full face? Yeah. [00:56:07] Speaker B: It's like if they fucked norm from cheers. Well, I'm saying norm was always a cheers. He was always at the bar. [00:56:15] Speaker A: Right. But if Norm was a character who. You never found out his name or he never spoke. Right. He's just always like. They never. You never saw Maris on Frazier, right? [00:56:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. Exactly. Right. [00:56:27] Speaker A: So it's like that. So Morham was always there and they would always act like he was in a conversation. They'd start off an episode and Quark was finished and telling him a joke, but he'd never speak, right. It was always like. [00:56:35] Speaker B: He just missed. That is a hilarious idea. I love that. [00:56:40] Speaker A: It is funny to the point where they'd be in other scenes and they'd be like. Morn would not shut the hell up last night. Stuff like that. [00:56:46] Speaker B: I love that. That's hilarious. [00:56:47] Speaker A: He played it for fun. So Morn dies. So this character who wasn't a regular on the show, but he was just always there, right? So fans kind of liked Morn. So the episode is about who mourns for Morn. And it turns out Morin was, like, uber rich, right? So all of these people start coming out of the woodwork to try to get his fortune, right? But he leaves his fortune to quark in his will. So Quark inherits his fortune. But then he's got hitmen and all these shady people like Anastasia trying to gun him down. Trying to get women to try to seduce him to get his stuff. So all these great characters, including Gregory Itsen, Emmy winning actor from 24. He played the president on 24. He won the Emmy that year. I believe he was opposite Gene smart on that season five. [00:57:41] Speaker B: I haven't watched 24. I know. God, I know. [00:57:44] Speaker A: Rest in peace, Gregory. It's recently passed away. He's in a ton of stuff. If you saw him, you'd know exactly who he was. [00:57:50] Speaker B: I'm sure. [00:57:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, totally fun episode. There are these brothers who have these really soft, annoying voices and they're very menacing. And Quirk's a little bitch, right? So he's caving in at every second but he's also cutting side heels and slithering his way out of know. Great reveal to the ending. Turns out Morn was not dead at all. He just sort of set up Quark to get all these people off his back after they all got arrested, he was safe. He came back out of hiding and quirk was like, are you fucking kidding me? But then at the end, he ends up another interesting Star Trek thing. Is that the whole episode? Where is his latinum? That's his fortune, right? Where's his latin? Where is he hiding it? No one knew. Turns out that. I want to say he's a mirador. No, no, not Miradorn. I'm sorry. I forget what species Morin is. But anyway, they have at least two stomachs and he was hiding all of his latinum in his other stomach. Latinum is just a liquid. Yeah, exactly. It's a very expensive liquid. Another one of the jokes on the show is that gold is sort of worthless. But you press the latinum in a gold brick. So you have all these gold bricks, but the gold is just bullshit. Nobody cares about the gold. It's the latin side. [00:59:01] Speaker B: Got to get that latinum. [00:59:03] Speaker A: Got to get that latinum, man. You got to get that lat. Got to make that lat. Got to get that nut. So he was hiding it in his stomach. [00:59:09] Speaker B: Wow. Wow. Okay. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Fun episode. Tons of fun. I'm telling you, Star Trekker fan or not, you would love that episode. [00:59:16] Speaker B: And no, it sounds cool. [00:59:18] Speaker A: Adore number one. You absolutely would. [00:59:20] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:59:21] Speaker A: And you ready for this title? You're going to love it. You ready? [00:59:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Who laughs for laughter? No, I'm pumped up. I can't wait. [00:59:29] Speaker A: This is big. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Now, number one. Now, I can't wait to see if you agree with the rating on this one. Hit me. What do you got? [00:59:36] Speaker A: So, this rating. I'm going to tell you the rating before I say the episode. The rating for this is 8.1. It should be 9.1. Like this episode. Like that. All right. One of the funniest episodes of Star Trek any show. Just so much fun. This is called the magnificent Ferengi, all right? And, yes, it's what you're thinking about. 100%. [01:00:01] Speaker B: Really? [01:00:02] Speaker A: Yes. I know. So Quark and Rom's mother gets abducted by the Dominion, this super serious enemy of the Federation, right? So she's abducted by the Dominion, and Quark has no choice but to take his ship and go rescue her. Can't do it alone. So him and his brothers start gathering people up, right to the point was. And that's four. And now we have five. And they're counting it up as they go, just like the movie. It's a lot of fun. [01:00:36] Speaker B: I don't know why this has become a thing. I feel like what movie or tv fan isn't a fan of the whole let's get the gang together and go get this thing? Who doesn't like that? You know what I mean? [01:00:46] Speaker A: It's a tested, tried and true convention, right? People love it. So. It's so funny. So they finally get seven. Now, these are Ferengi, okay? The cowards of the galaxy, right? The ones who are only interested in profit. They can't handle themselves in a fight, right? But seven of them are going to go take on the Dominion, right? And the Dominion have these crazy ass soldiers called the gem Hadar who are just badasses, and the whole galaxy fears them, right? So the Ferengi. So they want to meet in a safe space for the hostage switch. Right. So they convinced Starfleet to give them one of the Dominion hostages so they can trade for their mother. Okay. But the Federation is at war with the Dominion, so they can't really help. They can't go there and do it. So it's pretty much this Dominion group and the Ferengi. And they make a hostage trade. So they make it on the D space Nine's sister station, Empak Nor. And them getting there and then figuring out what to do and how to handle it. Dude, when I tell you the end of this, you'll be dying. You wouldn't be able to breathe. Okay. Because at one point, they accidentally. Of course, because they're a bunch of bumbling frames. Accidentally kill their hostage before they make the trade. Right. So they hook him up to these censored things and they make him walk. Like weekend at Bernie's. Exactly. Right. And watching them try to pull that off and watching this was. It's so funny, dude. Another little thing. The reason this is Luke's favorite is because one of the main Vorta who did the hostage exchange with the Ferengi was played by Iggy Pop. Yeah, that was one of Luke's favorite guest stars in the pod. [01:02:37] Speaker B: Wow. Really? Okay. [01:02:39] Speaker A: An absolute fun 45 minutes of tv. It was just so much fun. So well done. It was all Ferengi. You've never seen that many Ferengi do anything like that before. It was just like Quark and the rest of these awesome characters just carried the whole thing. Pretty much any Ferengi you had seen in the show up to that point ended up getting gathered up for know. So was Clark, his brother Rom, his nephew Nog, the aforementioned guy who sold the weapons. There was another great character actor, Jeffrey Combs, who's played a million things in Star Trek. He was one of the other ones. And then they did have one Ferengi who knew how to handle himself. They did have one Ferengi who actually was a hitman. He did that for profit. So he could handle a knife and he can kill people. So he was kind of like helping them out with that stuff. But, yeah, it was so much fun. Just a fun episode. [01:03:29] Speaker B: That's awesome. I got to be honest with you. The top three that you described sound like I would be into watching all of them. [01:03:35] Speaker A: I feel fun. And like I said, even if you weren't a Trek fan, you'd groove to it. I think Cork was an interesting character. He wasn't Starfleet on the original series and on Next Generation, all of the main characters were Starfleet, right. They were all members of the Federation. They were all members of Starfleet. And then D Space nine completely blew that away. Three of the characters on D space nine were not in Starfleet. One was a Bajoran, one was a security chief, and one was Quark. And they were all just like regular people hanging out. One of the many things at D Space nine that sort of flipped the switch, that sort of changed the game. On Star Trek with crazy success, you look up a ton of top ten. We're going to do this, of course, at some point, top ten Trek shows. I mean, Luke and I are heading for an Armageddon of a battle when it comes to next gen and deep space. But a lot of people tell you deep space was the better show. And one of the reasons why is because they took these risks and they made a money know capitalist, one of their main protagonists. [01:04:40] Speaker B: I also feel like they were at the right time to do that. Now, again, I'm going to sound like I know Star Trek, which I don't, but from what I know of it, you had the original show, then you had next gen, and then you had deep space, right? [01:04:54] Speaker A: Correct. [01:04:55] Speaker B: So I feel like next gen did it. They took the original show and made it better in a lot of ways, I'm guessing. But the idea was that you're on the Enterprise and you're going out and fucking having adventures, whatever. So I guess deep space was like, rather than do a third version of that, they decided, and I think that it was in line for them to do something like that made total sense. [01:05:13] Speaker A: Just along the same lines as it was time when the next show came out to have a female captain, right? [01:05:17] Speaker B: It was just something. [01:05:18] Speaker A: It was time for that to happen. I mean, they had great instincts back then. I wish that they had stuck with that when they came up with the premise for Enterprise. In all seriousness, I wish they didn't go prequel. You have three successful shows in a row, but hey, they took a risk. I was going to say even going. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Along that line at least the prequel is also at least somewhat different because it's before. I guess the idea is somewhat interesting, but I see what you're saying in the progression of things that didn't need to be there. It could have been down the line, but from what they do a good job of making everything kind of unique in its own way, but part of the world. [01:05:55] Speaker A: I'm being a hypocrite because you're dead, right? Because I can't congratulate them on one hand for making bold choices to go with something different and then shit on them when the one doesn't work. Right, you're dead right. So with Enterprise, they took a risk. I think me personally, and I mentioned this before on the pod, when I heard it was going to be a prequel, I was severely disappointed. I wanted, honestly, what lower decks is. So lower decks takes place three years after Voyager ends. Pretty much. So lower. Two years. No, I'm sorry, three years. Lower decks. So lower decks is pretty much that continuation that I never got when Enterprise came out. Now, that being said, I got you rewatched Enterprise, and it's a lot of fun. Very interesting. It's a different show and I appreciate it a lot more second time around, but I did want a continuation. And lower decks and Picard, the new Picard show, are continuations of that sort of century. They're sequels to next gen deep space Voyager. So, yeah, I kind of got that with that. [01:06:53] Speaker B: Okay. [01:06:54] Speaker A: So, yeah, Quark, great episode. It won't be the last time we hear Quark. Won't be the last time you hear about D space nine. I mean, one of my dreams is that someday you'll be watching D space nine, baby, and you'll understand why. It holds a lot of fans hearts, you know what I mean? There's a reason why that show is simultaneously such an outcast but also such a success. Yeah, it's really different. Whereas Voyager kind of was a return to the mission of the week on a ship exploring space. So it is what it is. So it sort of sits out there on its own, but it's really great. And Quark was one of the reasons why. And it's a remarkable character arc for him that I think I mentioned when I talked about him and Odo's relationship, but certainly worthy enough of a top ten podcast. [01:07:43] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I hope so, because here we are. We got. [01:07:45] Speaker A: I hope so. But, yeah, that's all I got, baby. So just. Hey, yeah, hit us up. Let me know. Was this a good pot? Was it a good choice to make this top ten? Do you like Quark? Do you not like Quark? Do you want to go to the divine treasury or to the Ferengi hill? Which I can't remember what the hell it's called, but hit us up on Instagram and TikTok. You could check out some of our talks on there is what they're called. Talks. Probably not. Hit up some of our TikToks on there. We got some instagrams up there. Not as many as we'd like to we're going to get better at that. But stwarp 10 and give us an email. Stwarp [email protected] before the next pod, we're going to have bomber watch Star Trek beyond. And then we're going to move beyond that. We're going to see what happens after that. Star Trek beyond is up next for bomber in his Trek awakening. [01:08:36] Speaker B: By the way, let me ask you, are they going to do a fourth one or no? [01:08:39] Speaker A: God, I hope so. So scripts and directors and Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth are looking to sign back on, but their salaries, ironically, of one of the movies that made them superstars are now making them too expensive to be in a. So, I mean, I know all the characters just, I'm sorry. I know all the actors like the characters, and I know that they want to return, at least according to interviews and stuff you hear. And I know Chris Hemsworth is an absolute gamer and he would love to play George Kirk again in some sort of time travel, twisty father son adventure. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Zachary Quinto. Whatever. [01:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I never know. Is it Quinto or Quinto? Hit us up at Stwrp 10. Let us know. Is it Quinto or Quinto? Not going to. [01:09:23] Speaker B: It's Quinto, your mother? Fuck no. Yeah. [01:09:29] Speaker A: As far as I know, they're all interested. I know Simon Pegg is a big Star Trek fan. He wrote Star Trek beyond, so you'll see it's a little different. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Oh, really? Wow. [01:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Star Trek beyond was directed by Justin Lin, who was famous for the Fast and the Furious movies, and JJ Abrams left to do Star wars. So I'll leave it to you to tell me whether you think it's better. Worse. Improved, not improved. It's certainly a different movie, but I think it's a lot of fun. Matter of fact, I'm sorry, go ahead. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Is this the one that Benedict Cumberbatch is in? [01:09:59] Speaker A: No, we just watched the one he was in, into darkness. [01:10:01] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. What am I talking about? [01:10:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. No, this is Idris Elba. Idris Elba plays the villain in this? Yeah. [01:10:09] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Okay. [01:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah, he's really good. I think they made some weird choices with him, but we'll get into that one when we watch it together. So I'm also curious to have the conversation about the trilogy once it's done, where it sits, because I think it's pretty damn good. So curious to see what you think about that, and I can't wait to watch it with you and you and Allison. I am also going to point this out bomber. That you refer to as your girlfriend. Just saying. [01:10:33] Speaker B: Did I say that? [01:10:34] Speaker A: You did. [01:10:35] Speaker B: All right. Well, yeah. [01:10:36] Speaker A: A mistake I made multiple times in my life. Yeah, you know, fiance, baby. [01:10:40] Speaker B: The fiance word is just a weird word, isn't it? [01:10:42] Speaker A: It is, and it's got a shelf life. If you say it for longer than, like, six months, it doesn't feel right. [01:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a little dicey. I agree. [01:10:51] Speaker A: I've been saying it for seven years. Hey, I'm sure you notice I call her my wife now. [01:10:59] Speaker B: I like that you do that, because I agree, at this point, it's like, I don't want it. I'd rather that than. I still roll with saying the girlfriend because I feel like it's coming this year. Yeah, but like you said, if I was like you and I was going to stretch it out, I think at that point it would just be wife and I'd be like, fuck, you got to get rid of that word. I don't know why. [01:11:18] Speaker A: I've been with her for 15 years. Coming up, it's like, yeah, wow, I'm going give to a shit. So there you go. So that's it, guys. Listen, thank you so much for listening. If you're one of the people out there who looks forward to listening to our episodes, I apologize that we haven't gotten one out sooner. We're going to try to do that better in 2024. We're going to have some fun, get some more pods out there for you, and thank you. Thank you so much for listening. You guys are the best. Bomber, take us home, baby. [01:11:44] Speaker B: No, I can't say enough. You're right. Thank you very much for sticking with us here. And, yeah, we'll get more out for you this year. So thank you very much. [01:11:54] Speaker A: See you.