This scene highlights one of my favorite aspects of DS9; how it shows us the day-to-day minutiae of life in the 24th Century, and that it's not just a story about Starfleet or humans, but of all sorts of different species of people, from all different walks of life. It makes Roddenberry's vision of the future feel more lived-in, and therefore more relatable. There were lots of scenes like this in DS9, which is one of the reasons why it's my favorite Trek series.
@Francisco Nieves I am offended at Quark for assuming that the blue man identifies as such when he might have been born purple in a blue body and also assuming he is a man. He may identify as grape.
@@ThePoshboy1 Except Bolians do. In fact Bolians take pride in their appearance AND the appearance of others ever notice the number of Bolian Barbers on the Enterprise - D Mot being one but others are in the background ( 4 total ) One personalities that inhabited 7of9 was a manicurist. The Borg only assimilate individuals if they have a technology or a worthy trait. Not saying Borg wanted to look good but perhaps a eye for details or skilled hands got the Bolian assimilated. A Bolian insult sounds like the name Fredrick in there native tongue.
That line is so good. You think he might be a bit dismissive simply calling him the blue man, but then remarks how he is wearing such good shoes. Everyone likes when you notice the small things.
If that is the original painting that inspired the Martian flag, I'd imagine it would be near priceless on Mars. Imagine some random at DS9 owning the equivalent of Betsy ross's sewing kit!
The guy was bidding excessively higher than the others and incredibly fast too. That would draw attention at any auction. It means he was desperate to get his hands on it and willing to grossly overpay.
The Man could probably have bought the Card for a maximum of 6 bars since Jake & Nog only had 5 bars. I would like to see a follow up to see how Weyoun & the Dominion used this man's research!
Once you have someone biding over every bid it's best to triple the bid if you can afford it. Assuming it's worth more to you anyway, discourages more bidding. He should have done it sooner tbh...as soon as he cut them with 2 bars and Jake hit back he should have layed it on them again with 6 but he was slow rolling them and then panicked.
How about that, you're right. Looking for it to complete my dad's collection, he said that was the one he was missing. He would've been old enough to remember Mays, maybe he thought he was on the 69 roster.
@@Bacxaber Transcript isn't any help. Giger is on his feet and outta here before Quark can complete his sentence. The baseball card and chest are packed away as Giger EXITS the room. A black-velvet painting of a matador arrives on the table. QUARK (off PADD) "Lot forty-nine: a rare example of a twentieth century Hew-mon art form -- acrylic on black velvet -- this image was the inspiration for the flag of the first Martian colonies in the year... " PUSH IN on Jake, who looks absolutely miserable at losing the baseball card.
2017 would make more sense in universe as Earth had interstellar sleeper ships well before then. But it's impossible to make out and 2070s is more like what I hear.
@@BeyondDaX This is just a stab in the dark, but I believe that STO is the subject of the sentence, not the object. I'm not familiar with it, but I assume the OP is referring to Star Trek Online, a game in which you can (presumably) visit DS9.
For a seance of realism, he shouldn’t have been specific about the date, he should have said “a mid twentieth century baseball card “., it would have been far more believable., just FYy
I don;t think Quark cared enough to date it exactly, it was only one item after all. I do not know much about baseball cards, neither they nor the sport have ever been hugely popular in my nation, but even if they have the date of release written on them, I doubt Quark knows enough of Human languages to understand even numbers
@@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 he is reading from the auction catalog. the entity that wrote the catalog dated the items and other info. this catalog was public info hence why the vedek and some others were there. today auctions have catalogs one can read through.
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 No, the ferengi aren't stupid or war hungry enough to be capitalist stereotypes. Definitely jewish, especially with Quark's mother being "out of control". And do I even need to mention the ears and noses?
@@UndeadGhostGirl "No they have to be a racist stereotype rather than an Ideological one. Why? Because they don't fit my personal interpretation of that Ideological stereotype." Almost every species in Trek that Roddenberry designed, of which the Ferengi were one, were based on Ideologies he dislikes or found flawed. Just like the Federation was his personal idea of a utopia.
This series was before the normalized gender madness nowadays so i know it's nothing like that. But I honestly can't tell if that Klingon is male or female. Does anyone know?
This scene highlights one of my favorite aspects of DS9; how it shows us the day-to-day minutiae of life in the 24th Century, and that it's not just a story about Starfleet or humans, but of all sorts of different species of people, from all different walks of life. It makes Roddenberry's vision of the future feel more lived-in, and therefore more relatable. There were lots of scenes like this in DS9, which is one of the reasons why it's my favorite Trek series.
unlike TNG where everything is commie politics.
@@hellatze Okay, Eisenhower.
yeah, keep going, in the 24th century you're nothing but dust!
Roddenberry's vision of the future was that humans became Vulcans. Yuck.
"Sold! To the blue man......in the good shoes." Every show needs a Quark.
@Francisco Nieves I am offended at Quark for assuming that the blue man identifies as such when he might have been born purple in a blue body and also assuming he is a man. He may identify as grape.
@@brakogar I know you're joking and I had a good chuckle. That being said I don't think many space-faring races particularly care what they're called.
@@ThePoshboy1 its not about them being offended is that i am offended for them.
@@brakogar
Spoken like a true progressive, good impression!
@@ThePoshboy1 Except Bolians do. In fact Bolians take pride in their appearance AND the appearance of others ever notice the number of Bolian Barbers on the Enterprise - D Mot being one but others are in the background ( 4 total ) One personalities that inhabited 7of9 was a manicurist. The Borg only assimilate individuals if they have a technology or a worthy trait. Not saying Borg wanted to look good but perhaps a eye for details or skilled hands got the Bolian assimilated. A Bolian insult sounds like the name Fredrick in there native tongue.
Come to Quarks. Quarks is fun. Come right now. Don't walk. Run!
Every time I read this the tune gets stuck in my head for an hour. Thanks for that. -_-
@@Asher_Tye Come to Quarks. Quarks is fun. Come right now. Don't walk. Run!
@@MellowTed meanie.
or as it seemed when that was happening:
"Flee from Worf, Worf aint fun, flee right now, dont walk, RUN!"
I can imagine a 22md century reinterpretation of Star Trek as children’s comedy.
Word as Wiley Coyote
And Quark as the roadrunner-type
"The blue man in the good shoes." It's excellent character work showing how Quark reads a room and the people in it, DS9 was just the best.
That line is so good. You think he might be a bit dismissive simply calling him the blue man, but then remarks how he is wearing such good shoes. Everyone likes when you notice the small things.
plus the gesture of humility and gratitude from said blue man and a few curious looks.
It's also his way of reminding himself about the 47th Rule of Acquisition - "Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own."
If that is the original painting that inspired the Martian flag, I'd imagine it would be near priceless on Mars. Imagine some random at DS9 owning the equivalent of Betsy ross's sewing kit!
They probably don't use money on Mars.
@@AaronMinerRunicfire Another reason it would be priceless, along with its historical significance!
@@lukasuhlenkamp9850 lol your right it would certainoy be priceless then wouldnt it
It was intended for a donation to a charity, so was probably gifted from Mars for that purpose.
Inspiration for the flag of the Martian colony in the 22nd century? El Matador on black velvet? LOL, I always loved that part.
Morn bought the painting. We didn't get to see him bid. XD
Probably for the best. You know how loud Morn can be.
Reubenofthedead the shear power he presents is what got him the painting
"I'm really sorry about the painting"
Its a perfect place to put a claim slip
i love the classic auction trope, everyone looking at once at the person who just bid
If it’s a big enough bid, like it was here, that actually happens.
The guy was bidding excessively higher than the others and incredibly fast too. That would draw attention at any auction. It means he was desperate to get his hands on it and willing to grossly overpay.
*Jake* : What do we do now?
*Nog* : Nothing. We're out of money.
The Man could probably have bought the Card for a maximum of 6 bars since Jake & Nog only had 5 bars. I would like to see a follow up to see how Weyoun & the Dominion used this man's research!
He could bought the card for 5 bars and 5 strips, "never pay more than you have to" - rule of acquisition.
@@elmodelo101 5 bars, One strips.
Once you have someone biding over every bid it's best to triple the bid if you can afford it.
Assuming it's worth more to you anyway, discourages more bidding. He should have done it sooner tbh...as soon as he cut them with 2 bars and Jake hit back he should have layed it on them again with 6 but he was slow rolling them and then panicked.
Oh man, the one card I'm missing from the 'Miracle Mets." A Willie Mays.
It's worth $1.5 k right now.
wow
how much is that in gold pressed latinum?
@Demetrius LaShawn that would actually be kind of cool.
Willie Mays didn’t join the Mets until after the 69 season. He was pretty old by that time.
How about that, you're right.
Looking for it to complete my dad's collection, he said that was the one he was missing. He would've been old enough to remember Mays, maybe he thought he was on the 69 roster.
I find it funny that the Star Fleet kid was going on about how they don’t need money before he comes begging for a Ferengi’s money.
He didn't need money. He just needed Nog's money. Socialism at work. :D
Found the Libertardian
@@titusmccarthy
Libertarianism is better than authoritarianism.
@@TheVeritas1 False Dilemma Fallacy
@@DavisJ-ln6fw
How so?
I always thought this was an inside joke amongst the crew, is just too oddly placed. It's great lol. Good shoes lol, epic.
Auctions are interesting. Where does one draw the line of sentimental value?
Roughly a hay-penny.
Woulda liked to see the shoes🤔
A great episode. Star Trek DS9 is for me the best Star Trek spin off ever. 🖖
...did anyone else notice at the end that the painting was the inspiration for, and I could swear I heard, the Martian colonial flag of 2017?
Sounds like "2077" but the loud sting makes it unclear.
@@Bacxaber Transcript isn't any help.
Giger is on his feet and outta here before Quark can
complete his sentence. The baseball card and chest are
packed away as Giger EXITS the room. A black-velvet
painting of a matador arrives on the table.
QUARK
(off PADD)
"Lot forty-nine: a rare example
of a twentieth century Hew-mon art
form -- acrylic on black velvet --
this image was the inspiration for
the flag of the first Martian
colonies in the year... "
PUSH IN on Jake, who looks absolutely miserable at
losing the baseball card.
To me it sounds like he is saying ".. in the twenty second cen[tury]", which corresponds with the in universe start of the Martian colonies in 2103
2017 would make more sense in universe as Earth had interstellar sleeper ships well before then. But it's impossible to make out and 2070s is more like what I hear.
Props to the extra decanting the item gently
Lot 665. A papier mache musical box in the shape of a barel organ
Alan Gascon ah a man of culture
A collectors piece indeed.
The mindless minions of othodoxy didn't get the box this time!
This is one of my favourite episodes
im still a ferengi!
The guy who bought the chest really shot Jake and Nog down.
Lot 49 at the end, shoutout to Pynchon fans.
Dramatic music for not getting an old baseball card.
It's dramatic if you understand context.
Anyone wonder how a Willie Mace baseball card ended with all that Vulcan junk?
It's not Vulcan junk! It's dated pre-Surak!
@@LordDavid04 still doesn't answer how that baseball card ended up with Valcan artifacts
@@Freddie1980 It was with a bunch of other artefacts too. Quark mentioned something Bajoran.
@@LordDavid04 maybe a Bajoran collector studding that area of the galaxy for cultural items?
I usually say, I think I'm gonna watch some ferengi.
I remember this part
Auction theory- Winner's curse
That Klington actress in this scene is a smoke show
Very anti bolian statement from quark!
The clip stops too early, I wanna see Morn buying Lot 49.
0:47 pre-Cirroc
Little shout out to the actor lol
Why STO don't add this in Quark's Bar?
Add what in Quark's bar?
@@BeyondDaX This is just a stab in the dark, but I believe that STO is the subject of the sentence, not the object. I'm not familiar with it, but I assume the OP is referring to Star Trek Online, a game in which you can (presumably) visit DS9.
Agreed, would be a way to have the C-Store in the game itself.
@@ccggenius that didn't answer the question at all
A Quarktion!
The painting should have been a velvet Elvis.
who is the Klingon woman.
a nd. non descript. no name no backstory.
@@toomanyaccounts she's the actress who played M'pela the tall dabo girl.
But but... they have replicators and could just replicate another baseball card, lol
I'm sure artifacts have chain of custody documentation. Then again, Star Trek was always terrible at fleshing out social impacts of its future tech.
For a seance of realism, he shouldn’t have been specific about the date, he should have said “a mid twentieth century baseball card “., it would have been far more believable., just FYy
I don;t think Quark cared enough to date it exactly, it was only one item after all. I do not know much about baseball cards, neither they nor the sport have ever been hugely popular in my nation, but even if they have the date of release written on them, I doubt Quark knows enough of Human languages to understand even numbers
@@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 he is reading from the auction catalog. the entity that wrote the catalog dated the items and other info. this catalog was public info hence why the vedek and some others were there. today auctions have catalogs one can read through.
He'll drop out at 2 bars. I know, I'm still a Jewish stereotype.
…
… I mean Ferengi!! Yeah, that's it! Ehehehe….
A capitalist stereotype*
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 No, the ferengi aren't stupid or war hungry enough to be capitalist stereotypes. Definitely jewish, especially with Quark's mother being "out of control". And do I even need to mention the ears and noses?
@@UndeadGhostGirl huh... Well I didn't expect that
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 The part about the capitalist stereo type or the jewish stereotype?
@@UndeadGhostGirl "No they have to be a racist stereotype rather than an Ideological one. Why? Because they don't fit my personal interpretation of that Ideological stereotype."
Almost every species in Trek that Roddenberry designed, of which the Ferengi were one, were based on Ideologies he dislikes or found flawed. Just like the Federation was his personal idea of a utopia.
Mm
This series was before the normalized gender madness nowadays so i know it's nothing like that. But I honestly can't tell if that Klingon is male or female. Does anyone know?
Female.
That's definitely a woman. lol
"gender madness" ah yes. diversity. so scary
It doesn't make sense. They could just replicate latinum. 😛💰🤓
I believe it is stated somewhere that they can't replicate it, but I don't remember the reason they gave.
@@StevenJBen the replicators are programmed to never replicate latinum as it would destabilise the economy
@@StevenJBen They claimed that latinum had too complex a molecular structure for the replicators to handle.
The reason they give is the crystalline structure can not be replicated & if you try regular old chaseum comes out.
No they cannot. That is why Latinum is valuable for the Ferengi. Gold yes, hence they use gold to hold the latinum.
I remember this part