Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Star Trek DS9 Episode 31 - Rivals

Quarks' con artist rival (Martus) arrives on DS9 with a device that changes probabilities. After being arrested by Odo, for conning people, he activates the device and soon his luck changes. He opens a bar and starts to put Quark out of business.

Meanwhile, O'Brien is trying to get in shape by playing racquetball with Bashir. (didn't racquetball go out of public favor in the 1980's???). In order to make money Quark secretly starts a gambling ring to bet on O'Brien and Bashir's matches. When O'Brien actually wins, Sisko becomes suspicious and it sets off a series of events that lead to him discovering Martus's device. Because surely, fat slob O'Brien could never win at racquetball.

This episode guest starred Barbara Bosson who was on my second favorite cop show of all time, Hill Street Blues ... number one being In The Heat of The Night.

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4 comments:

Unknown said...

Did I mention I just finished watching the first two seasons of Hill Street Blues? I bought them both for five bucks each. Great show! But here's what's bullshit: The rest of the seasons are only available on the complete set that runs for about 100 bucks.

Oh... and I have nothing to say about this episode. But let's be careful out there.

Mugato said...

Are you serious!! It is such a good show. But was it so popular to warrant a 100 dollar DVD set? Nobody is buying that.

capt.naps said...

they should have played Zero G Space Racket ball

Donald said...

This was a bad episode, but I'm not sure why you mentioned Barbara Bosson and not Chris Sarandon.