Ferengi Love Songs

This Story: Season 5 Episode 20 (production code 518)
DS9 Overall: Episode 118
Trek Overall: Story 377, Episode 399
Airdate: 21 Apr 1997
Writer: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
Director: René Auberjonois

Notes

• The sixth of eight episode of Deep Space Nine directed by René.
• Quark gets his business license back which he lost in “Body Parts“.
• Apparently the line about action figures was written about Ira Steven Behr, as he’s one of those “never open your action figures ever” type of guys.
• Quark’s mother Iskha is now played by Cecily Adams.  In the character’s prior appearances she was played by Andrea Martin.  Martin apparently did not want to return due to the demands of the prosthetics.
• While they’re not seen, tribbles are mentioned in passing in this episode.
• Four Rules of Acquisition are mentioned here:
  18 – “A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all”
  94 – “Females and finances don’t mix”
  208 – “Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer”
  229 – “Latinum lasts longer than lust”

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