The Ascent
- Episode aired Nov 25, 1996
- TV-PG
- 46m
On their way to answer a warrant, Odo and Quark crash, and must put aside their differences to survive and signal for help.On their way to answer a warrant, Odo and Quark crash, and must put aside their differences to survive and signal for help.On their way to answer a warrant, Odo and Quark crash, and must put aside their differences to survive and signal for help.
- Bajoran Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaQuark offers to play a game of fizzbin, a game made up by Captain Kirk in the episode "A Piece of the Action (1968)".
- GoofsIn the opening scene, despite taking two long drinks of the root beer, it is obvious that Rom is not drinking at all. The liquid level never changes and the bottle is still very full in the last shot before the credits.
- Quotes
Odo: You know, if I were still a Changeling, I could've shapeshifted into a Vorian pterodactyl and flown that damn transmitter to the top of the mountain hours ago.
Quark: You're the one who wanted to be a Solid.
Odo: I never wanted to be a Solid.
Quark: Oh, please. I used to see you coming into the bar, watching Morn eat, eyeing my customers, as they gambled and flirted with the dabo girls, wishing you were one of them - not to mention your platonic friendship with a certain Bajoran Major.
Odo: [laughs disparagingly] If that's the kind of psychological insight you dispense with your drinks, it's a wonder you have any customers.
Quark: Deny it all you want, but the fact is, your people gave you what you wanted. You're one of us now, and I can finally sit on a chair and know with absolute certainty that it isn't you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: What You Leave Behind (1999)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
I was almost hoping that they had used A&W root beer or Barqs/Quarks... something that would serve as an almost in-ep ad for a real product, like the way the last season of Roswell served as a plug for Snapple.
This episode is unique in that it has the Quark-Odo antagonism on basically equal footing. For the first four seasons, Odo always had the advantage because he could turn into a Tarkassian Razorbeast, a painting, a table, chair (a man alone) or a fifth drinking glass ("Vortex").
But not this time. He has to use his wits to try to get what he wants out of Quark. And we find out indeed, in this episode he was tricking Quark. He might have succeeded had not a certain conclave of crooks which we will hear more about later in this season planted certain items that would explode. Thankfully, Ferengi ears are sensitive.
This episode used the perfect location to make us believe in an "L-Class Planet". I have hiked up that very path that they filmed on and indeed it looks that wonderful.
Meanwhile while Quark and Odo try to learn what parts of alien plants are edible, the NoJake consortium is becoming the No-Jake (and No-Nog) consortium. As JakeNog finally learn that, as good friends that they are, they are in fact two members of two different species that normally don't get along very well. They had known this all along, but they seem to have forgotten it before becoming roommates.
Which is actually an excellent illustration of things that actually happen to good friends who decide to become roommates even here, on earth. Sometimes it just doesn't work out very well. And that was when the "RomBen" consortium figures out a way to trick the NoJake Consortium... which shows that parents can be as devious as their kids.
And... the DS9 Runabout body count keeps growing...
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- Jun 26, 2022