Son of... Whatever

I like Quark, and "The House of Quark" (3x03) is a good episode for him.

Quark takes credit for killing a Klingon who tried to kill him, but the Klingon was so drunk he ended up falling on his own knife. The story of the heroic Quark killing the Klingon brings more business to his bar, but the story comes back to get him in some trouble. Not surprisingly, he ends up having to face a Klingon in hand-to-hand combat after basically accusing him of scheming and plotting... like a Ferengi.

I love the what-the-fuck expressions on the Klingon's faces and how Gowron gives his PADD a subtle toss. Later, when Quark decides to go face D'Ghor, he makes a great introduction.

Odo and Lwaxana

There are several really good scenes between Odo and Lwaxana in "The Foresaken" (1x17), so it was hard to choose one. But I went with this, a scene where Odo tries to escape the chatty Lwaxana (can we blame him?).

After that, they both end up trapped in the turbolift. Odo contacts Ops to find out what is wrong with the turbolift and is warned he shouldn't try to shape shift out because there are exposed multi-phase alternating currents. Lwaxana tries talking to Odo but he just states that he would "rather pass the time quietly." After a while, Lwaxana ends up talking nonstop anyway and something catches Odo's eye. Lwaxana asks what he's looking at, and Odo says, "Oh, nothing, I was just wondering how many volts are in that exposed circuit."

Poor, poor Odo.

Not an In Between Kind of Guy

I've always thought the friendship between Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir was great. But it wasn't always that way. Initially, O'Brien hated Bashir, but the two kept ending up together and finally, in "Armageddon Game" (2x13), faced death together (which, according to Bashir, creates an unbreakable bond between two people).

In "Explorers" (3x22), Bashir gets anxious about meeting the woman who beat him and ranked top of the class at medical school (though I say he threw the final test to help hide his genetic status). Shortly after she arrives on the station, he sees her at Quark's walking toward him. So he stands up and smiles, and she walks right past him. He gets a little depressed and then he and O'Brien go get wasted and try to "rationalize" what happened. What happens next is just a fun scene between the two.

"And that is from the heart! I really do... not hate you anymore." Haha.