DS9 S01E14 & S01E15

In this installment:
(viewed Saturday, July 5th)

Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine, S01E14 - "Progress"
Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine, S01E15 - "If Wishes Were Horses"

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"Progress"

• "Jake, I'm getting that tingling in the lobes!"
  
  Uh, go see Dr. Bashir and see if you can get some ointment for that.
• Tapping the core of one of your moons for thermal energy?  What could go wrong?
• Yamok sauce?  Self-sealing stem bolts?  This episode is full of crazy, DS9-specific lingo.
• This old guy?  Mullibok?  He's kind of awesome, but totally full of crap.  His folksy wisdom wears thin about a third of the way through the episode :P
• Even Chief O'Brien is all like "Self-sealing stem bolts?  No clue."
• The theme of this episode?  Kira used to fight The Man, and now she is The Man.  And that's like, hard to get used to or something.
• The Noh-Jay Consortium:  Building better water reclamation facilities since 2369.
• "As long as that cottage is standing, I stay here."
  
  "WELL WHAT IF I BURN IT THE F**K DOWN?!?"
  
  "You'll have to kill me, too!"
  
  "I'm totally not doing that."
  
  "Oh, okay.  Yeah...I guess we can go, then."

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"If Wishes Were Horses"

• Oh, no.  I remember this episode now.  This is totally DS9's "Shore Leave".
• "I could create a shape-shifter playmate for you.  The two of you could...intermingle."
  
  "You're disgusting."
  
  "No, actually when we find your people that's actually totally how it will work."
• Dude, Julian.  GIVE IT UP.
• "Anything going on?"
  
  "We were just looking at an unusual energy reading."
  
  So you know...same old, same old.
• "Ships have always avoided the Denorias Belt, and we have no idea how the presence of so many warp and impulse engines might effect it.  The question is:  Is this going to cause us any problems?"
  
  "We were hoping you could tell us."
  
  You know, because you're the science officer and whatnot.
• Dear Molly O'Brien:  I hope actual Rumpelstiltskin eats you.
• Chief O'Brien is totally crushing story time, though.
• "Why do we tell her stories about evil dwarfs who want to steal children?"
• O'Brien's imagination come to life gives us Rumpelstiltskin, Jake's imagination come to life gives us a baseball player, and Bashir's imagination comes to life gives us...horny Dax?  Eep.  One of these fantasies is going to be much more awkward and difficult to explain than the others.
• Odo with the emu?  PRICELESS.
  
  "Come along.  Come along, now."
• I believe this is the first time we've seen (or the first time I've noticed, at least), the sunken area of Deep Space 9's operations center that will often be Chief O'Brien workplace during the show.
  
  
  
  (image courtesy of Ex Astris Scientia)
  
  It was known colloquially as "O'Brien's Pit" by production crew and cast, although I don't believe it has any formal, in-universe designation.
• And Odo's imagination?  Quark in a jail cell :)
• Oh, they're aliens.  That totally makes sense, I guess.  Jerkwad aliens are always to blame when we get a "shenanigans" episode of Star Trek.
• Aww, not fake Dax! :(
• Bwahahahaha!  Dax's imagination gave us a sub-space rupture.  I forgot about that.
  
  I guess that's a little worse than Bashir's after all :P