I am putting the DS9 blog on hiatus for a while, because of life things that make it hard to find the time and drive to write about Star Trek.  Sorry, guys!  I’ll be back eventually because I’m not going to let myself watch any episodes of DS9 without blogging them.

I have realized that as long as I am as busy as I am, blog schedules are for suckers.  Besides, we live in the era of RSS!  Nobody checks websites anymore except for boring old-fashioned fossils like me.

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The Nagus at Memory Alpha

• In an era where technology has advanced as far as the tricorder, Jake Sisko should absolutely not need more than one book-sized computer in his school bag.

• The Grand Nagus’ laugh is creepy and weird and I don’t like it.

• I am so glad Miles is back!

• Colm Meaney has spent a good 20% of the season so far under the same maintenance panel at ops.

• I’m not sure why the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi has a huge alien servant, but since the Ferengi are so tiny, it’s kind of hilarious.

In the teaser before the main title sequence, we learn three things. One thing we learn is that Jake is a way obnoxious kid who would rather hang out on the station and maaaybe see a new model of anti-gravity tractor than go to some place called the Fire Caves. I mean, on. The Fire Caves. That is awesome.

Another thing we learn is that the most important Ferengi ever is the Grand Nagus. The third thing we learn is that the Nagus is all pervy.

After the main titles, we learn another important fact: Miles teaches class for Keiko sometimes, like now. Keiko is apparently still on vacation, but Chief O’Brien had important duties to attend to back on the station.

The titular Nagus is in town to hold a conference at Quark’s on extremely short notice, regarding the future of Ferengi business interests in the Gamma Quadrant. And to name Quark as his successor to Nagusdom or whatever you call it.

In a way-too-feel-goody subplot, Jake’s Ferengi friend Nog is banned from attending the O’Briens’ school. Friends despite their differences! Their fathers don’t want them to be friends. Is it too much to hope that the two adults will find common ground in their distaste for their sons’ friendship?

The Nagus also apparently came to DS9 to kick the bucket. This is convenient, because he doesn’t have to listen to Quark whine at him about the attempt that someone else makes on Quark’s life.

It also saves him from having to see Quark get all obnoxiously mad with power. I’m still not clear on what position, exactly, the Nagus occupies in Ferengi society, but he appears to be somewhere between a CEO and a financial advisor.

It turns out that the Jake/Rom subplot is even worse than I thought. Jake is secretly teaching Nog how to read. My teeth are starting to hurt. Seriously, it’s totally gross.

The culprits behind Quark’s attempted murder were apparently the son of the former Nagus and Quark’s own brother Rom. They plan to throw Quark out of an airlock. Not the most original plan.

Luckily (maybe?), Odo stops it, and the old Nagus reveals himself to be STILL! ALIVE! He was in a sleep trance he had learned from his enormous alien servant and was just testing his son’s abilities in the areas of treachery and cunning. At first, before he explained about the sleep trance, I suspected that maybe he had cloned himself and then killed his own clone, but that was incorrect. He may be devious and greedy, but he is not a murderer. So Quark is unNagus’d and things go back to normal, except that Rom gets a promotion in reward for his devious treachery in the name of profit.

Dabo!