Prophet Motive

This Story: Season 3 Episode 16 (production code 462)
DS9 Overall: Episode 62
Trek Overall: Story 325, Episode 342
Airdate: 20 Feb 1995
Writer: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Director: René Auberjonois

Notes

• This episode is directed by René Auberjonois (Odo). It’s the first of eight overall he will direct in the series.
• The first episode with the dartboard in Quark’s that is used by Bashir and O’Brien as a social focal point for the rest of the series.
• The first episode in all of Star Trek to mention the Andorian home planet as “Andoria”.
• Only the second time since the DS9 pilot that we see the “Wormhole aliens”.  Additionally, it’s the first episode where they refer to Sisko as “The Sisko”.
• Rule of Acquisition mentioned: #10 – Greed is eternal.
• As a plot point of this ep, a new set of rules were come up with.  We heard a few of them in this episode.  At the end of the episode they were done away with and the originals restored.  The new ones said in the episode were:
  #1: If they want their money back give it to them.
  #10: Greed is dead.
  #21: Never place profit before friendship.
  #22: Latinum tarnishes, but family is forever.
  #23: Money can never replace dignity.
  #285: A good deed is its own reward.

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