Profit and Lace

Episode aired May 13, 1998
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.2K

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Wallace Shawn, Armin Shimerman, Chase Masterson, Max Grodénchik, and Tiny Ron in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Quark's mother and the Grand Nagus show up on DS9, announcing a new amendment to the Bill of Opportunities he has instituted on the home planet of Ferenginar, and then follows up with the an... Read allQuark's mother and the Grand Nagus show up on DS9, announcing a new amendment to the Bill of Opportunities he has instituted on the home planet of Ferenginar, and then follows up with the announcement, that, due to the new amendment, chaos has followed and he has been deposed.Quark's mother and the Grand Nagus show up on DS9, announcing a new amendment to the Bill of Opportunities he has instituted on the home planet of Ferenginar, and then follows up with the announcement, that, due to the new amendment, chaos has followed and he has been deposed.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
It is generally accepted amongst the writers and cast that the main problem with the episode is that while the writers wrote it as high farce, Alexander Siddig and Armin Shimerman saw it as a much more serious piece, in the tradition of Family Business (1995); a comic episode with serious undertones. As Shimerman says of Siddig, "He wanted to make it less of a comedy and more of an exploration of the relationship between a bickering mother and son. He tried to push the envelope and take Quark into an area that Quark isn't used to going in. I applaud him for it, although we reshot some of the scenes, like the heart attack, because he had a much darker vision than the writers had imagined."

Goofs
Ferengi culture seems to have developed a well-defined sense of female fashion, highly distinct from the way males dress, which is odd in a culture where women have never been able to wear clothes.

Quotes
Captain Sisko: A Dominion invasion of Ferenginar?
Rom: Think of the terrible repercussions to the Alpha Quadrant!
Lt. Commander Worf: I cannot think of any.