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Just finished watching DS9 Season 6 Episode 10 'The Magnificent Ferengi' ..... and totally fun watch complete with the worst Ferengi in the series and a great cameo by Iggy.

One of my favourite from the series out of so many favourites so far. What a great and fun watch.

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[–] teft 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Keevan always makes me laugh in that episode.

I hate Ferengi.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Only the Ferengi could could pull of hostage exchange fraud

[–] aeronmelon 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That whole episode replays in my head on a regular basis.

“WHAT have they DONE to him?”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Such a classic scene and a fantastic sequence .... spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen it yet (and if you haven't, you should definitely watch it) .... I especially love that Brunt old woman scream

[–] cybervseas 6 points 1 week ago

Seeing Iggy Pop as the negotiator does it for me!

[–] ummthatguy 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Such a fun retelling of 7 Samurai and subsequently The Magnificent 7!

Couple selections from a thread early last year:

Edit: Found the post!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Magnificent 7

I've heard of '7 Samurai' and how it inspired a lot of westerns such as The Magnificent 7 ... which later on inspired space westerns such as Star Wars.

7 Samurai is on my long list of must see movies during my lifetime (I feel like I have to live to be 200 years old to complete that list).

I remember seeing the original The Magnificent 7 with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson ... it was a mainstay of late night pirated illegal broadcast movies in our town in the 80s for a while. I can't say my kid self appreciated it much ... all I remember is being fascinated by western cowboys like Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson (and that's coming from a Native guy ... we all loved westerns just as much as anyone else, although we always cheered on the Indians even if they were losing ... lol)

In the case of the Ferengi .... I was cheering them on the entire way ... even Brunt, that bastard of a liquidator for the Ferengi Commerce Authority.

[–] ummthatguy 3 points 1 week ago

The original is a more somber watch, but intriguing all the same. Star Wars the Clone Wars even has their own retelling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I linked to your original image! .... I knew someone had done this image and album cover referencing NWA and Straight Outta Compton before so I just did a quick search for it ... first one I saw that linked to a Lemmy image and I just ran with it ... turns out it was from your original post.

That was also a hilarious thread with lots of great images.

I am certain that the show producers and camera people were specifically thinking of all those westerns images and that recent image of album art from NWA when they shot this scene. It would have been recent to everyone at the time because the album came out in 1988 but everyone was still talking about it and playing for about five or ten years after and this DS9 episode was from Dec 1997.

[–] ummthatguy 2 points 1 week ago

Excellent observation, sourced and all. Had to investigate: so D.O.P. Jonathan West did a music video for Toto, but is mostly known for near 50 episodes of TNG and the bulk of DS9. That said, surely the visual aspect of the Westerns of yore and NWA were taken into account.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also loved this classic cameo

[–] ummthatguy 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon 3 points 1 week ago

“You love me, you really love me!”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] teft 5 points 1 week ago

Hide yo moogies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is so horrible to see humanity reflected in the mirror like that. And therefore so crucial that we look deeply at it so that we can hopefully overcome our worst impulses.:-)

[–] aeronmelon 7 points 1 week ago

It’s so horrible that present day humanity looks bad against a money-grubbing, chauvinistic, bridge troll-looking archetype.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 5 points 1 week ago

Latinim down ears up

That’s the way I like to rules of acquisition