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Quark
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Not a Ferengi bartender, nor a subatomic particle, nor a galactic president, but a 1970s sci-fi parody of Star Trek from Get Smart co-creator Buck Henry. It was basically the US-version of Red Dwarf, but with only eight episodes.The show was set on the United Galaxies Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, a garbage scow working for the United Galaxies Space Station Perma 1. It regularly satirized Star Trek, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Flash Gordon. The characters were: Adam Quark: The Captain, who longs for glamorous assignments, but ends up picking up garbage bags. Often gets into adventures without meaning to. The Bettys: The Bridge Bunnies, jointly second-in-command, navigators, and pilots of the ship. One of them is a clone of the other, but both insist it's the other. Both of them lust after Quark. Notably played by a pair of Doublemint gum twins. Gene/Jean: Chief engineer, with the twist that he's a "transmute", with both male and female chromosomes and both sets of hormones . Thus, as Gene, he's a Blood Knight Jerkass, but as Jean complete with a female voice, she's a Technical Pacifist. Ficus Pandorata: The Spock taken to the extremes, he's a "Vegeton," a member of sentient plant race. He always speaks with Spock Speak, has no emotions at all, cares about no-one, and breeds by pollinating. Andy: A Cowardly Sidekick Robot Buddy, he was basically a stupid Marvin. Otto Palindrome: The Obstructive Bureaucrat who is in charge of Perma 1. He loves making Quark miserable. Dink: The Non-Human Sidekick for Otto, he was basically Cousin It from The Addams Family IN SPACE. The Head: The Bad Boss crossed with a giant Rubber Forehead Alien. Otto answered to him, and he frequently assigned Quark to bizarre jobs. | |
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Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? Transmutes have the expected homosexuality and transgender jokes. A spaceship ejects a bag of garbage from its rear end with a defecation sound. | |
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Photoprotoneutron Torpedo | |
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Photoprotoneutron Torpedo: Episode 2 reveals that the crew's sidearms are called "gamma guns". | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: When Ficus is asked to comment on the Space Clothes worn by the Betties, he says that they are terrible. | |
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Daddy's Little Villain | |
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Daddy's Little Villain: Princess Libido, daughter of Zorgon, who wants to marry Ficus. | |
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Chained Heat | |
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Chained Heat: Gene gets chained to Andy while trying to sneak off a Gorgon warship. At one point Gene tries to leap off a railing to attack some guards beneath, only to be left dangling when Andy refuses to follow. | |
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To the Batpole! | |
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To the Batpole!: In addition to elevators and stairs, the ship has special sliding tubes that allow crew members to descend to the deck immediately below quickly. | |
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Twin Threesome Fantasy | |
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Twin Threesome Fantasy: Both Bettys love Captain Quark, but there's a stigma against sleeping with a clone, so since he never knew which one was a clone, he couldn't sleep with either. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Dink spoke only with xylophone beeps. | |
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Handshake Substitute | |
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Handshake Substitute: The Bettys slap hands and bump their hips together whenever they knock out a mook. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: In "The Old and the Beautiful", Quark has to have sex with an alien princess infamous for fatally wearing out her lovers. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Gene/Jean. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zee Rust: Played for Laughs when they send a telegram. In the 23rd century. | |
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Boldly Coming | |
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Boldly Coming: Ficus is ordered to seduce Libido so they can escape. Turns out Vegetons mate by lying on their back with their limbs in the air. | |
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HumansAreSuperior | |
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Humans Are Superior: Spoofed by Ficus, who is always able to turn these arguments around on Quark. For instance when Vanessa looks like making the crew redundant, Ficus concludes that humans are indeed superior, as no other creature could endure the Humiliation Conga that Quark has just undergone and still believe he's relevant. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In the final episode, their ship gets a new computer called Vanessa, which proceeds to turn crazy and try to kill them in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer" | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: After saving the galaxy from the Gorgons, Quark is offered command of his own starship. However he insists that his crew be promoted with him, as they deserve equal credit. "If they don't go, I don't go." So the Head obliges...by not promoting Quark after all. | |
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Straw Vulcan | |
| Quark / int_4bfd2125 | comment |
Straw Vulcan: Averted; a Running Gag involves Quark trying to argue with Ficus that Humans Are Superior due to their emotions. Ficus always ends up pointing out that Quark's reasoning is Insane Troll Logic. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Parodied in "May The Source Be With You". To stop a Gorgon invasion, Quark is trusted with the Source, which can make anything possible as long as you believe in it. But as it's such a powerful weapon, the Source has been sealed up for 200 years and is now suffering from confidence issues. Played with in "All the Emperor's Quasi Norms". Various lucky coincidences convince Quark the rock necklace he's wearing makes him invincible. However it's actually worthless. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Quark / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: Several elements in the pilot are quite different from the rest of the series. Ficus is absent, as noted in Dropped After the Pilot. The Head has a noticeably different hair design, as well as detached hands that are never seen again afterwards. Starting with episode 2, adventures would begin with Palindrome and the Head sending Quark on a mission. Here, the crew just happens to be on the path of the Monster of the Week, and Palindrome and the Head don't even get to them until after the resolution. Andy's personality is very different, defined by his malfunctions and his crush on the garbage disposal unit rather than his cowardliness. Possibly Justified since Mudd is still tweaking his programming. | |
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? | |
| Quark / int_5028baf2 | comment |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Spoofed because no-one can convince Ficus that human love is an advantage. | |
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Unknown Phenomenon | |
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Unknown Phenomenon: | |
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Food Pills | |
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Food Pills: Parodied when the crew eat a meal... by putting a hose to each person's mouth, through which a "pill" about the size of a fist is pneumatically rammed down their throats. | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine | |
| Quark / int_5541da8c | comment |
Lotus-Eater Machine: In "Goodbye Polumbus," the Gorgons' machine designed to drain the minds of brilliant scientists traps the crew in their own fantasies, in a parody of the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave" | |
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Death Trap | |
| Quark / int_55c79f7c | comment |
Death Trap: Zorgon loves these, and puts Ficus in one for a Cliffhanger. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
| Quark / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Clones and Transmutes are discriminated against. There's a social stigma against sleeping with clones, and Transmutes can be treated with outright contempt to their faces. Zorgon is infuriated to find his daughter wants to marry a Vegeton. But when Ficus informs Zorgon he has no emotional response to his captain and the Bettys being fed to a lizard monster, he congratulates his daughter on picking someone with good Zorgon values. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
| Quark / int_5b1a2f4e | comment |
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When the Head looks like firing him, Palindrome contacts his father for advice. Dad advises him to do what Palindromes have done for generations. Beg. | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock | |
| Quark / int_5c613245 | comment |
Thrown Out the Airlock: When a computer goes insane and tries to kill the crew, Quark disconnects the computer and throws it out the garbage chute. The episode ends with the computer floating through space singing "Born Free". | |
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Planet of Hats | |
| Quark / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: The Gorgons are all sort of a proud warrior race that's evil, too. For example: | |
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That's No Moon | |
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That's No Moon: | |
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Insane Admiral | |
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Insane Admiral: Admiral Flint in "The Good, the Bad and the Fictus". After Quark's evil self goes on a rampage, he's convinced that Quark is a Gorgon sympathizer because of a school essay he wrote while seven years old saying the Gorgons were "funny". | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Quark / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Parodied - Ficus is a plant, Palindrome's first name is one, Gene/Jean has male and female chromosomes in their genes, Andy is an android, etc. | |
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The Triple | |
| Quark / int_6f465fea | comment |
The Triple: Quark is usually briefed along with two other captains; the first two are given a glamorous assignment while Quark is either sent to pick up the garbage, or sent on a Suicide Mission. | |
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Queer People Are Funny | |
| Quark / int_6ff7c60e | comment |
Transmutes have the expected homosexuality and transgender jokes. | |
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Slime Girl | |
| Quark / int_7801f93f | comment |
Slime Girl: Quark destroys the Lotus-Eater Machine in "Goodbye Polumbus", only to find the gorgeous woman of his dreams he's been smooching is the queen of the Clay People. He hastily beams up before she can show her gratitude for freeing her. | |
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Tin-Can Robot | |
| Quark / int_7f84552e | comment |
Tin-Can Robot: Andy. | |
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Multi-Armed Multitasking | |
| Quark / int_8a47208b | comment |
Multiarmed Multitasking: In the pilot there was Interface, a four-armed alien woman who controlled communications between ships. | |
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Cargo Cult | |
| Quark / int_8f746311 | comment |
Andy's personality is very different, defined by his malfunctions and his crush on the garbage disposal unit rather than his cowardliness. Possibly Justified since Mudd is still tweaking his programming. | |
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Silicon Snarker | |
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Silicon Snarker: Andy is this from time to time. | |
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Plant Aliens | |
| Quark / int_95dec9d2 | comment |
Plant Aliens: Ficus, and presumably Vegetons in general, despite looking exactly like human beings. Ficus's role as The Spock of the crew is because he has no "animal emotions". | |
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The Needs of the Many | |
| Quark / int_9a3b7208 | comment |
The Needs of the Many don't outweigh the needs of those on top. | |
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Bronson Canyon and Caves | |
| Quark / int_9b945875 | comment |
Bronson Canyon and Caves: Bronson Canyon is used for the battle between good and evil Quark. | |
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Single-Minded Twins | |
| Quark / int_9ccedbed | comment |
Single-Minded Twins The Bettys often said the same thing at the same time. However in "The Old and the Beautiful", Quark puts them in charge of the ship during a space battle, and all they do is argue. | |
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Techno Babble | |
| Quark / int_a20d4674 | comment |
Technobabble Satirizes it, naturally. | |
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Floating Limbs | |
| Quark / int_a52b90b6 | comment |
The Head has a noticeably different hair design, as well as detached hands that are never seen again afterwards. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Quark / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Gene/Jean both sound the same. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: In "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms," Zorgon demands Quark tell him where "it" is. Quark, having no idea what "it" is, lies. We never find out exactly what "it" is, but Quark ends up with a worthless rock necklace. | |
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All Hail the Great God Mickey! | |
| Quark / int_a8e5bc60 | comment |
All Hail the Great God Mickey!: "My ancestors were from a tribe called 'the Americans'. Archeological digs in California indicate they worshipped, and were ruled by, a fully clothed, giant mouse." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Quark / int_b06bbf4b | type |
Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| Quark / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Whenever Quark starts an episode griping about having to pick up garbage bags, he'll end up in a dangerous situation wishing he was picking up garbage bags. | |
| Quark / int_b06bbf4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_b06bbf4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Quark / int_b41c411e | type |
Toilet Humour | |
| Quark / int_b41c411e | comment |
A spaceship ejects a bag of garbage from its rear end with a defecation sound. | |
| Quark / int_b41c411e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_b41c411e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_b41c411e | |
| Quark / int_b46f4237 | type |
Space "X" | |
| Quark / int_b46f4237 | comment |
Space "X": All over the place. | |
| Quark / int_b46f4237 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_b46f4237 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_b46f4237 | |
| Quark / int_b8dde2 | type |
Evil Overlord | |
| Quark / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Evil Overlord: Zorgon the Malevolent, Most Vicious Gorgon Space Pirate and Half-Brother to the High Gorgon Himself | |
| Quark / int_b8dde2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_b8dde2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Quark / int_b8dde2 | |
| Quark / int_ba183b0e | type |
The Paralyzer | |
| Quark / int_ba183b0e | comment |
The Paralyzer: Gamma guns freeze people in place. | |
| Quark / int_ba183b0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_ba183b0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_ba183b0e | |
| Quark / int_be811bbb | type |
Overnight Age-Up | |
| Quark / int_be811bbb | comment |
Overnight Age-Up: In a parody of the Star Trek episode "The Deadly Years," Quark due to some Applied Phlebotinum starts aging two years for every hour. | |
| Quark / int_be811bbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Quark / int_be811bbb | |
| Quark / int_c3d95be6 | type |
You Said You Would Let Them Go | |
| Quark / int_c3d95be6 | comment |
You Said You Would Let Them Go: Zorgon threatens to crush the Betties unless Quark talks. He does so, and Zorgon is so grateful he has all three chained up to be eaten by a lizard monster instead. Hey, this is him being merciful! | |
| Quark / int_c3d95be6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Quark / int_c3d95be6 | |
| Quark / int_c6b4b048 | type |
Dropped After the Pilot | |
| Quark / int_c6b4b048 | comment |
Ficus is absent, as noted in Dropped After the Pilot. | |
| Quark / int_c6b4b048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Quark / int_c6b4b048 | |
| Quark / int_c7b5445c | type |
Cool Starship | |
| Quark / int_c7b5445c | comment |
Cool Starship: Subverted; they travel on a garbage scow. | |
| Quark / int_c7b5445c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Quark / int_c7b5445c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_c7b5445c | |
| Quark / int_cd3527d9 | type |
Negative Space Wedgie | |
| Quark / int_cd3527d9 | comment |
Negative Space Wedgie: Couldn't avoid 'em as it parodied Star Trek. | |
| Quark / int_cd3527d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_cd3527d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_cd3527d9 | |
| Quark / int_d0caee40 | type |
Uncanny Family Resemblance | |
| Quark / int_d0caee40 | comment |
Uncanny Family Resemblance: Palindrome's father is played by the same actor. | |
| Quark / int_d0caee40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_d0caee40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Quark / int_d0caee40 | |
| Quark / int_d0f0a80d | type |
One-Word Title | |
| Quark / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title | |
| Quark / int_d0f0a80d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_d0f0a80d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_d0f0a80d | |
| Quark / int_dfe888e0 | type |
Cannot Tell a Lie | |
| Quark / int_dfe888e0 | comment |
Can Not Tell A Lie: Ficus is an emotionless plant, so he doesn't see the logic in sparing feelings that he doesn't have himself. | |
| Quark / int_dfe888e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_dfe888e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_dfe888e0 | |
| Quark / int_e2a41c3b | type |
Literal-Minded | |
| Quark / int_e2a41c3b | comment |
Literal-Minded: Ficus | |
| Quark / int_e2a41c3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_e2a41c3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e2a41c3b | |
| Quark / int_e4616e62 | type |
Not so Dire | |
| Quark / int_e4616e62 | comment |
Not so Dire: The pilot episode opened with a spaceship apparently engaged in a highly dangerous docking maneuver. Turns out it's just a glorified garbage scow picking up a load of trash from the other ship. | |
| Quark / int_e4616e62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_e4616e62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e4616e62 | |
| Quark / int_e6b5d22f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Quark / int_e6b5d22f | comment |
Catchphrase: The Head always signs off with "The Galaxy Ad Infinitum". | |
| Quark / int_e6b5d22f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_e6b5d22f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e6b5d22f | |
| Quark / int_e784bb8c | type |
Accidental Truth | |
| Quark / int_e784bb8c | comment |
Accidental Truth: In "All the Emperor's Quasi Norms", Zorgon threatens to kill Quark unless he reveals where "it" is. Having no idea what he's talking about, Quark plays for time by saying it is on a particular asteroid. Turns out the MacGuffin really is there, causing Quark to believe this is a case of Because Destiny Says So when he's told by the locals of a legend about a Stranger who will use "It" to defeat their enemy. But it turns out that "It" is just a worthless rock and the whole thing is a coincidence. | |
| Quark / int_e784bb8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_e784bb8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e784bb8c | |
| Quark / int_e91a2f04 | type |
Cloning Blues | |
| Quark / int_e91a2f04 | comment |
Cloning Blues: The Bettys are both in love with Quark and don't know (or won’t say) which of them is the original. It's implied that, being identical in every way, the clone really believes that she's the original and therefore the other Betty must be the clone. | |
| Quark / int_e91a2f04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e91a2f04 | |
| Quark / int_e9604359 | type |
Monster of the Week | |
| Quark / int_e9604359 | comment |
Starting with episode 2, adventures would begin with Palindrome and the Head sending Quark on a mission. Here, the crew just happens to be on the path of the Monster of the Week, and Palindrome and the Head don't even get to them until after the resolution. | |
| Quark / int_e9604359 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_e9604359 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_e9604359 | |
| Quark / int_eeaee38c | type |
Geeky Turn-On | |
| Quark / int_eeaee38c | comment |
Geeky Turn-On: Ficus is unaffected by the Lotus-Eater Machine in "Goodbye Polumbus", until he sees a beautiful woman in Nerd Glasses with whom he can discuss E = MC Hammer. She gets extremely turned on by this, taking off her glasses and letting down her hair until she's on the verge of a Nerdgasm. Cut to her lying next to Fiscus puffing on a cigarette. And he hasn't even got to calculus. | |
| Quark / int_eeaee38c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_eeaee38c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_eeaee38c | |
| Quark / int_f2dadf81 | type |
Evil Twin | |
| Quark / int_f2dadf81 | comment |
Evil Twin: The whole cast except for Ficus got them when they passed through a black hole, in a parody of the Star Trek episodes "The Enemy Within" and "Mirror, Mirror" | |
| Quark / int_f2dadf81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_f2dadf81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_f2dadf81 | |
| Quark / int_f7e540ee | type |
Ow, My Body Part! | |
| Quark / int_f7e540ee | comment |
Oh My Aching Head: Dealing with Palindrome gave “the Head” migraines “the size of a super-nova!” | |
| Quark / int_f7e540ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_f7e540ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_f7e540ee | |
| Quark / int_fd497586 | type |
You Mean "Xmas" | |
| Quark / int_fd497586 | comment |
You Mean "Xmas": Christmas has become "Holiday Number 11". | |
| Quark / int_fd497586 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_fd497586 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_fd497586 | |
| Quark / int_fdaf37f0 | type |
Captain's Log | |
| Quark / int_fdaf37f0 | comment |
Captain's Log: As a parody of Star Trek, Quark had one every few minutes, often Lampshade Hanging whatever was happening | |
| Quark / int_fdaf37f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_fdaf37f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_fdaf37f0 | |
| Quark / int_fdf22cfd | type |
Evil Is Hammy | |
| Quark / int_fdf22cfd | comment |
Evil Is Hammy: In "The Good, the Bad and the Ficus", a Negative Space Wedgie creates an evil version of our heroes. | |
| Quark / int_fdf22cfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Quark / int_fdf22cfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quark | hasFeature |
Quark / int_fdf22cfd | |
| Quark / int_ffb1df90 | type |
Perpetual Poverty | |
| Quark / int_ffb1df90 | comment |
Perpetual Poverty: When Palindrome and the Head have to send a telegram to Quark in the pilot, they end up spending the entire episode arguing about the cost of sending it and trying to reduce the number of words. | |
| Quark / int_ffb1df90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Quark / int_ffb1df90 | |
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