ok, just finished this one! Wow, this one is packed with Quodo scenes and I really like it. You can tell they're trying to establish the characters here and also the fact that although these two have a rivalry, it's a friendly rivalry.
Some observations: - Poor O'Brien lol. - It's great when Odo rescues Quark from the angry customer, and the snarky back and forth in that scene is great. - My partner commented partway through that it's amazing to see people dealing with an airborne disease all walking around in enclosed spaces without putting on masks. They'd probably do the costuming differently if they shot this episode these days! - One thing that's interesting is Kira and Dax talking about unwanted male attention, but it seems clear that Quark is primarily interested in their business, or alternatively in them making the party more interesting, rather than hitting on them, which is pretty funny. - I wonder if this is some early installment weirdness with Rom being a bad mechanic, or alternatively, the fact that Quark doesn't explicitly call Rom his brother - writers still trying to figure that out maybe. - Quark trolling Odo a bit when transporting him down to the docking ring is very funny. I think it's not clear the degree to which the writers intended for us to think Quark doesn't know what he's doing. We don't see Quark fumbling the controls or being confused, so I think he's just joking with Odo here. - Quark is definitely worried about Odo at the end there!
Definitely one of my S1 favs and one of the shippier quodo episodes with great potential. I think this is one of the episodes that definitely opened me up to the prospect of the Quodo ship, and it holds up on the rewatch too.
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Some observations:
- Poor O'Brien lol.
- It's great when Odo rescues Quark from the angry customer, and the snarky back and forth in that scene is great.
- My partner commented partway through that it's amazing to see people dealing with an airborne disease all walking around in enclosed spaces without putting on masks. They'd probably do the costuming differently if they shot this episode these days!
- One thing that's interesting is Kira and Dax talking about unwanted male attention, but it seems clear that Quark is primarily interested in their business, or alternatively in them making the party more interesting, rather than hitting on them, which is pretty funny.
- I wonder if this is some early installment weirdness with Rom being a bad mechanic, or alternatively, the fact that Quark doesn't explicitly call Rom his brother - writers still trying to figure that out maybe.
- Quark trolling Odo a bit when transporting him down to the docking ring is very funny. I think it's not clear the degree to which the writers intended for us to think Quark doesn't know what he's doing. We don't see Quark fumbling the controls or being confused, so I think he's just joking with Odo here.
- Quark is definitely worried about Odo at the end there!
Definitely one of my S1 favs and one of the shippier quodo episodes with great potential. I think this is one of the episodes that definitely opened me up to the prospect of the Quodo ship, and it holds up on the rewatch too.