The Magnificent Ferengi

This Story: Season 6 Episode 10 (production code 534)
DS9 Overall: Episode 134
Trek Overall: Story 392, Episode 415
Airdate: 29 Dec 1997
Writer: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
Director: Chip Chalmers

Notes

• This plot of the Dominion kidnapping Quark’s mother was supposed to be the Grand Nagus, but Wallace Shawn was unavailable, so it was switched to his mother Ishka.
• Features a reappearance of the DS9 sister station, Empok Nor.
• Similar to the Empok Nor episode, the bulk of the main cast is only seen in the teaser.  And Worf isn’t even in the episode.
• Features quite a lot of the one off and semi recurring Ferengi characters: Quark, Rom, Nog, Brunt, Iska, Gaila, Leck.
• Features the rock star Iggy Pop as a Vorta (Yelgrun).
• Keevan appears again for the second and final time. He had previously appeared in “Rocks and Shoals“.  Both times they were played by Christopher Shea.
• The only episode where Rom kills someone (A Jem’Hadar).
• While officially the writers of this episode say it doesnt’ have anything to do with them, it does have a lot of feel of the movies The Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven.
• Parts of this feel like the episode “Spock’s Brain” as well as Weekend at Bernie’s.
• This episode was directed by Chip Chalmers. He directed one other DS9 episode as well as four on TNG, and being a first assistant director on 12 other episodes of TNG.

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