False Profits

This Story: Season 3 Episode 5 (production code 144)
VOY Overall: Episode 47
Trek Overall: Story 477, Episode 503
Airdate: 2 Oct 1996
Story by George A. Brozak
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 14 (3 this episode) / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 11 (crew of 143).
• One of the four episodes filmed for Season 2 and held over for Season 3.
• Working titles for this were “The Visitors” & “Penitence”.
• This story is a direct sequel to the TNG episode “The Price“.
• Dan Shor played Arridor in both this episode and “The Price“.
• Kol is the other Ferengi from The Price, but he was recast here.  Leslie Jordan plays him here – I know Jordan from any number of things, but I enjoyed him on the “Call Me Kat” TV series (2021 – 2023).
• Michael Ensign plays “The Bard” here.  He was also Krola in TNG’s “First Contact“, a Vulcan named Lojal in DS9’s “The Forsaken“, and a different Vulcan named Oratt in Enterprise’s “Stigma“.
• The second of three Ferengi that Neelix actor Ethan Phillips would play (“The Grand Proxy”).  He also played Farek in TNG’s “Menage a Troi” as well as Ulis in Enterprise’s “Acquisition“.
• Rob LaBelle plays Kafar here.  He played two different Talaxian characters in Voyager episodes – “Faces” and “Homestead“.
• Two Rules of Acquisition are mentioned, although the second wasn’t real (as there’s only 285 of them):
  #95 – “Expand or Die”
  #299 – “Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, it’s easier to exploit them the next time”

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