30th Anniversary DS9 Discussion Marathon

[Nate the Great]

HANEEK: The thing I don't understand is why you pretended to be my friend.
KIRA: I wasn't pretending.
HANEEK: Ah. So you are my friend until I need you.

I repeat-at what point are we supposed to like these people? You don't ask someone you just met if you can sponge off them. Duh.

HANEEK: You betrayed me, Kira.

Kira betrayed you...how? I despise people who use the "if you don't give me everything I want you're a heartless monster" tactic. I understand how this is supposed to be a metaphor for present-day refugees, but doesn't work.

HANEEK: You still believe we would have been a burden to your people?
KIRA: Yes.
HANEEK: I think you've made a terrible mistake. All of you. Maybe we could have helped you. Maybe we could have helped each other. The Skrreeans are farmers, Kira. You have a famine on your planet. Perhaps we could have made that peninsula bloom again. We'll never know, will we? Fifty years of Cardassian rule has made you all frightened and suspicious. I feel sorry for you. You were right. Bajor is not Kentanna.

And once again the underlying issues aren't resolved because the episode ran out of time.

Perhaps the Skrreeans are great farmers on their planet, but who says they'd be great farmers on your planet?

The Fiver

Kira: Quark, I'm extremely busy. What do you want?
Quark: It's about the Bajoran entertainer you made me hire...
Kira: You caused me to miss my perm appointment for this?
Quark: Whose idea was it to hire Vedek Yanni? Everyone's asleep!

Yanni is still performing today. That surprised me.

Kira: Captain, we've rescued these people from a ship that came careening through the wormhole, but the Universal Translator's on the fritz.
Sisko: Let me try. Hi there.
Haneek: Bah weep grah nah weep ninibong?

Ah, yes, the Universal Greeting from Transformers.

Kira: And here we have the Circus Maximus. Please keep your hands to yourself.
Tumak: Oo! Ee! Ooh ah ah!
Odo: No, you can't have that.
Tumak: Ting! Tang!
Odo: No, you can't have that either.
Tumak: Walla walla bingbang!

"Witch Doctor" too? Any excuse to use nonsense words, I guess.

Odo: How strange... they seem to be a matriarchal culture.
Sisko: And the men seem utterly subservient to the women.
Kira: I--
Odo: Don't even say it.

What was Kira going to say? I was expecting a Betazoid joke, or at least an "Angel One" joke!

Haneek: Now we are seeking our Promised Land.
O'Brien: I hope it doesn't take forty years.
Bashir: Their leaders are women. They'll stop and ask for directions.

Another creaky joke. Does the "men won't stop to ask for directions" bit have any life to it at this point?

Odo: Nog, what did you do to make him so angry at you?
Nog: Well, uh... you know how their skin flakes off? I tried to sell him a dustpan and broom.
Tumek: You're a funny man. I'll kill you last.

It's only thanks to the Nostalgia Critic that I recognize this "Commando" joke. You know when I said I'd kill you last? I LIED.

Nog: Cool, the new wanted posters are up. This is only reason I like coming to your office. Hey, this guy's got the death sentence in twelve systems.
Odo: He'll be careful.
Nog: He'll be dead!

Star Wars too? Were we supposed to get Bingo cards at the start of this?

Nog: I broke Rule of Acquisition #25: Thou shalt not get caught.

RoA #25 is really "A wise man can hear profit in the wind." I can't find a Rule that would fit this punchline better, the best I can find is RoA 6: "Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity."

Memory Alpha

* Second mention of the Dominion.
* In this episode the Bajorans clap human style instead of Bajoran style. Oops.

Nitpicker's Guide

* Phil asks why the Federation wouldn't help with said famine and suggests that's it's really a simpler food shortage.
* How did these refugees get ships that can hold three million people? Are they more militaristic than they claim?
* In this episode the Occupation was stated to be fifty years, Phil points out that it was earlier stated to be sixty years. I'm more willing to take everything stated in "Emissary" with a grain of salt, that stuff was thought up before the series even started.
* Phil talks for a but about the Universal Translator and how it can make holographic projections of lips forming English sounds.
* In prior episodes the railings on the upper level of the Promenade had two levels so Jake and Nog could sit and lean on the lower rail. But now the lower rail is gone and they could easily fall to their death. I wonder what the real-world reason is for removing the rail.
* Phil wonders if the Replimat is free and why people would eat at Quark's if it was. I'm sure the Replimat is free and people eat at Quark's because they're already there to drink and gamble. Plus there are always snobs who think real food tastes better.