Never cared much for this episode. Always thought it squandered its potential. For example, since they are in 1947, why don't Quark and the others buy real estate that will be popular in the future. Places like where Dodger Stadium and Candlestick Park will be(since they have heard about baseball from Sisko, this isn't far fetched).
So where was the autopsy scene?
We've all seen pictures of it, surely?
Or was this another Roswell incident?
Ha ! I think I've found the nuke test they used for this episode.
It's the shot "Dog" from the "Tumbler-Snapper" series, detonated on May 1, 1952. Or at least it looks very similar. Go there for some clips.
You mean they were on Earth for five years?
Akk! My smiley got cut off there. I was kidding!!!!
I hope the doctors were able to reattach your smiley Mark. What a horrible thing to have happen. ;-)
Sisko makes a joke about Earth not knowing that three Ferengi are heading for Earth. At least I hope it's a joke. Aren't ships supposed to file flight plans when traveling from star system to star system?
Quark's ship seemed to be in pretty good shape and yet some people claim that whatever crashed at Roswell left a lot of wreckage.
On pages 314 & 315, Phil hypothesizes that the front cover of the guidebook does not say Earth, because then the military would have studied the book very closely. Even if the cover did say S^DK&JU*H, wasn't there also a PICTURE of Earth on the cover?
Since nobody mentioned Nog's guidebook I assume that Odo hid all the stuff that would alter the future, should a 1947 man find and study it. However this means that Odo would have recovered quickly, or not been affected at all by the time trip and crash, discover that they are in the past, and then locked away the small stuff before, or possibly during, the ship's being towed to the hanger, and Quark, Rom and Nog were hauled off to be studied.
Quark says the Divine Treasury is made of solid Latinum, but in the episode Who Mourns For Morn, Latinum is a liquid at room temperature, and the Ferengi never struck me as a race that loves cold places.
When trying to sell technology to the Hu-Mans, Quark says that gold is acceptable, but in Who Mourns For Morn, he says that gold is worthless.
Why exactly did Quark have to sell his ship to pay for passage back to Deep Space Nine? A later episode would state that the Federation doesn't use money so Quark & company could have caught a free flight. Couldn't the sabotaged part have been replaced?
Quark could have paid for repairs by either charging someone for a ride to DS9 in his ship, or by hauling freight. Of course the later episode In The Cards states that the Federation doesn't use money, so why couldn't Quark & company catch a free ride back to DS9?
When trying to sell technology to the Hu-Mans, Quark says that gold is acceptable, but in Who Mourns For Morn, he says that gold is worthless.
Yeah, but it's really valuable on Earth in the 24th-century, and that's where he is at the moment -- I'm sure he'd be willing to deal in the valid currency...
20th, not 24th
As with all time travel episodes, really hard to believe. In every episode when they have to "get back to our time", it seems pretty far out, but this flying into the mushroom cloud to harness the atomic energy to react with the smuggled stuff to send them back? I can't see how Rom could have got them back to them exact moment they left. At least Spock in ST4 made some calculations for the time warp.
Ferengi are born calculators. ;-) Their greed probably gives a very innate sense of mathematics.
Besides, they had the writers on their side. ;-)
Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan):Quark says the Divine Treasury is made of solid Latinum, but in the episode Who Mourns For Morn, Latinum is a liquid at room temperature, and the Ferengi never struck me as a race that loves cold places.
I think Quark was meaniing "solid" as "complete" or "whole."
Yeah, and how can the Divine Treaury be made completely or wholy of latinum if the stuff is liquid at room temperature? The nit is still there.
Swim trunks anyone?
Oh come on. It's Ferengi Heaven we're talking about. Who says the normal laws of physics apply there? We all know you can't walk on clouds in real life, but this is how we represent our (christian) version of heaven.
What is the black rectangular thing that Quark hits when trying open the door when he first wakes up? At least I assume it was that black box thats left of the door that he hit when trying to open the door.
(it can be seen in one of the panning shots after quark says its locked)
NANJAO: This episode reminded me A LOT like "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (TOS)
In what way? The ONLY thing that I see that was the same was the time travel.
And it involves the Air Force.
there are humans in both episodes too
*Slaps Anonymous*
Mom, Someone is stating the obvious again...
Nog says that Tobacco is a deadly drug, but he should have said that Nicotine is a deadly drug delivered using tobacco.
What about TV being a dangerous drug?
I'll also mention again- "latinum" is shorthand for gold-pressed latinum.
May I ask what TV has to do with being a drug?
Didn't the people on the base wonder where this dog came from? Was their an original dog that Odo locked up somewhere?(perhaps, since Odo may have needed to see one to copy it)
The base seemed pretty wet for being in New Mexico.
This is Max Grodenchick's favorite episode. (He said so at the Chicago Star Trek Convention last year)
Fingers crossed Phil didn't mention this already, but the captain who interrogates them late in the episode has his rank pinned to his collar incorrectly the whole ep; drove me a little crazy and I'm shocked I didn't notice it before.
A great line that was probably in the guide is "if they'll buy poison, they'll buy anything." Oh Quark, how right you are!
Are you ex-military by any chance? Because I think that most viewers would not notice such a ting.
I am, ex-Navy, but the same uniform rules still apply to the Army... even though Roswell and Area 51 was an Air Force operation. Not a big deal, but then again so is nitpicking!
Figured that an ex-military would be one to pick this up.