Fizzbin
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This reminds me of a piece of dialogue from Quark in DS9's "THE ASCENT".
He tries to get Odo to play a game of Fuzzbin, which leads one to conclude that the Iotians did achieve interstellar travel pretty quickly due to the communicator left behind. (Since the transtator was the basis for all the Enterprise's technology at that time.)
I wonder how many people played Fizzbin in the 2370s. Clearly it's fairly popular, if Quark is trying to teach Odo the game.
He tries to get Odo to play a game of Fuzzbin, which leads one to conclude that the Iotians did achieve interstellar travel pretty quickly due to the communicator left behind. (Since the transtator was the basis for all the Enterprise's technology at that time.)
I wonder how many people played Fizzbin in the 2370s. Clearly it's fairly popular, if Quark is trying to teach Odo the game.
I perceived that scene as if Kirk was making up gibber as he went along, for the sake of confusing the gangster guy as a diversion. The incidental music hinted at it, as well as cueing us in that the scene was somehow supposed to be reveling in self-aware mirth and humor.
Now those pinball machines in the back; if those were made in the 1930s or later, as far as anachronisms go, we can just write it off as the Iotians copying the schematics stuck in the middle of one of the Big Book of Gangster* pages for the usual plot reasons, and making some basic design changes...
Vic Tayback definitely steals the show...
It's not exactly the best of episodes but, dang, the acting somehow keeps it all from going south all while the rest of said story tries incredibly hard to meet the penguins in Antarctica...
* "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties", since when it comes to "20s" that only the 1920s is the one exists and no other set of years throughout the ages having "20" tacked on like "1620" or "2220" can possibly qualify... BC and AD prevailing, of course, for double the fun, so don't mix up 1620AD as 1620BC or else James VI or Charles I will not be pleased since Scotland as they knew it didn't really exist ~3240 years earlier, give or take a year since Scotland's roaring 20s had a royal makeover and all... I'm tempted to find out what pinball machine is behind the actors, the one with the sets of legs painted on... if it has buttons on either side, then it would likely have been made in the late-1940s... time to whip out the blu-rays.
Now those pinball machines in the back; if those were made in the 1930s or later, as far as anachronisms go, we can just write it off as the Iotians copying the schematics stuck in the middle of one of the Big Book of Gangster* pages for the usual plot reasons, and making some basic design changes...
Vic Tayback definitely steals the show...
It's not exactly the best of episodes but, dang, the acting somehow keeps it all from going south all while the rest of said story tries incredibly hard to meet the penguins in Antarctica...
* "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties", since when it comes to "20s" that only the 1920s is the one exists and no other set of years throughout the ages having "20" tacked on like "1620" or "2220" can possibly qualify... BC and AD prevailing, of course, for double the fun, so don't mix up 1620AD as 1620BC or else James VI or Charles I will not be pleased since Scotland as they knew it didn't really exist ~3240 years earlier, give or take a year since Scotland's roaring 20s had a royal makeover and all... I'm tempted to find out what pinball machine is behind the actors, the one with the sets of legs painted on... if it has buttons on either side, then it would likely have been made in the late-1940s... time to whip out the blu-rays.
"The Book" must have been published in the 20th century, given that its title takes that much for granted. It seems an odd artifact for the Horizon crew to go ashore with, and yet it happened. You can't make this stuff up.
Well . . . er . . . yes.
Aye, it is par for the course, but for some reason the music makes it feel more glaring, rather than complementing it.
Or maybe Quark is just joking around with Odo, kind of like Kirk was on Iotia with Kalo and his men.
That particular piece of music doesn't much bother me, but it drives me crazy on a few shows when the music is not at all subtle in such situations. They might as well put up a title card during those sequences saying "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LAUGHING AT THIS WHIMSICAL SEQUENCE."
I wish I could play poker like that. I could buy my own island. Except on Tuesday's.
Well, Capt. Merik said starship captains are a special breed.
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