Quark tells his nephew something about humans

Clip from Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558"

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[outsideredge]

I loved DS9. The earlier Treks were about establishing human ideals. This Trek was about putting those ideals to the fire and seeing how well they held up. 

[dvarblo]

Although quark is the comic relief...he does occassionally come up with some very good points about humans.

[skalliavas]

The actor said of all his appearances on Trek shows, getting to give this line about humanity was one of the best moments of his career.

[Alleyneko]

why do i find him comparing us to klingons a compliment? lol

[williams100292]

I like the idea that humans would be feared and respected in the galaxy. The respect part is just a bonus though, i'd settle for being feared. That means they wont screw with us, less fighting for us.

[bengalifan]

What Quark doesn't get is that's a side effect of what makes humans so great. Life can get hard, everything can be stacked against us, we can be alone against our problems and become overwhelmed by them. What we won't do is give in to them. What we will do is buckle down and in the immortal words of Gandalf, tell the problems "You shall not pass!" or in other words "You will not overcome me!"

[Spiderblade]

Loved this about DS9. The time they took to make the Ferengi, Cardassians, and Bajorns as more fleshed out alien races with their own customs and beliefs. And on top of that developing their own created races the Jem'Hadar, Vorta, and Changelings. I just wish their could have been more time for them to develop the Breen.

[greenrangerv1]

@batlantern Armin Shimmerman said one of the primary reasons he took the role of Quark was to undo the damage TNG did to the Ferengi. (He played the first Ferengi essentially, the one who spoke the most in "The Last Outpost"). He said the Ferengi were ridiculous in their first episode and damaged what they were trying to do to the point where the Ferengi couldn't be the top villain the writers were trying to establish them in being, because no one would have taken them seriously.

[MikeSears100]

Quark is one of the wisest characters in the Star Trek Universe. The sad thing about his assessment of humans is quite correct except humans are far more dangerous than Klingons. Humans are real, Klingons are fiction.

[BlueCrystalGem]

@dvarblo Quark's a people person, he knows how to read his customers very well.

[eggory]

The default state of the human mind is far more simplistic than that of a man with many broken premises, or a man who lives under trying conditions. It lies beneathe all learning, purely animal. A man who learns anything is beyond instinct. The priorities of man, his hierarchy of needs is only intrinsic in him insofar as it describes his rational course of action, or insofar as he is but an animal to be held to no greater standard than his instincts.

[canreymaster11]

What inspired that? ive heard it before elsewhere.