Armin Shimerman finally understood Quark

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[TheFiddleFaddle]

One of my favorite DS9 facts: Armin Shimmerman would regularly host the other Ferengi actors at his house so they could practice scenes together. That's why all the Ferengi performances are so good.

[brandonhanrahan]

Armin shimmerman, through his ability to not only bring quark to life with so much talent, but for the first time made the ferengi a little bit human and likeable if at all not loveable 😂 but his ability to play this character so darn well really in my opinion is a big part of what made deep space 9 one of the most iconic trek series.

[khyronprime]

Quark and Nog are some of my favorite things on the show. They stand as a direct counterpoint to Gene's TNG-season-1 idea that everyone who wasn't the Federation's "evolved" society were savage a-holes. Kira, too. There's actual diversity of viewpoints, not just a parade of strawmen.

[briansturm]

Your shorts are killing me. "HELL YEAH. New episode of STN must have dropped! ... Oh. Not yet, I guess."
Love you guys.

[jackbrennan]

Fuck, he's really gonna call him Quacker for the rest of the show, isn't he?

[AGrayPhantom]

Any episode that focuses on Quark is a good episode 😊

[SpittingVillage]

The first season of any star trek show after the first episode is basically 100 percent inconsequential stuff that is trying to draw you in and make you care about the wider cast. Imo DS9 does that better than any other bc there's so much interplay between the characters. Odo is always Javert but this episode shows that Quark can rise to the occasion and be Valjean

[MegaZeta]

Shimerman has some strong insight there, to understate it. Quark as a “fixer” comprises so, so many Quark stories.

[Tim-yq]

As the series goes on we find that Quark is actually very scrupulous in his own way.

[homeonegreen]

Dominate every chair you encounter if you want to be a leader worthy of my respect.

[cmscalvert]

Quark is still my favorite character on that show, maybe of all Trek.

[Nazo-kage]

Truthfully, an episode like Babel kinda makes sense narratively.
It makes sense that some branch of the resistance would’ve done something to try and sabotage a Kardasian mining station.
Just like in a future episode, it would make sense for there to be some secret security measures put in place in case the Bashorins ever rose up and took the station.

[EvilTheOne]

NO Star Trek series built their primary and secondary characters more than DS9. BIG RESPECT TO THEM!

[unclegumbald]

That’s what so amazing about this show. Even if the episode’s story is dogshit (DS9 fans, you know it’s comin’) you still have that episode’s character development to latch onto and enjoy.

[Wowwowpow]

Please for the love of god stop calling him the Quacker 😭

[glenmassey]

Quark did get some problems solved, however when he caused those problems he usually tried to fix them, and was one of the first characters that came up with the best UFP analogy comparing them to root beer. Quark did compare humans to his own species but didn't quite get it right.

[juliandacosta]

I like character moments but the number 1 thing drawing me into shows like star trek is cool space stuff. This episode definitely has that, even though when I started watching the show I was trying to just watch the plot related episodes.

[trancetechkid]

Having grown up watching these, I was always confounded why they couldn’t use more and larger screens all over. I know this was supposed to be an abandoned mining space station or whatever but even when I was 13 watching this, the giant painted graphics and everything surrounding these tiny monitors just didn’t make sense. Obviously it was a budget thing but still, it just started to be silly that it’s the future and everyone has tiny monitors everywhere that don’t seemingly display anything useful.

[TonyTylerDraws]

Tbf possibly 80% of TNG episodes do very little to change things. Thats not bad; it was the nature of episodic tv at the time. I think they were still in TNG mode for that first season of DS9 before shifting to arc-driven stories.

Also, I wonder why Voyager wasn’t as arc driven.

[ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

im sitting here, is that quark unmakuped, i know that guy, thats the noxguy from stargate