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* {{Irony}}: After Jake's noble speech about the Federation having outgrown the need for money, he and Nog get outbid by a human who's got latinum to burn.
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** To ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'': The Willie Mays card is Lot 48, while Lot 49 is a charming black velvet painting snapped up by Morn.
** And to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': Nog steals Kukalaka from Leeta by sneaking her a substitute object while she sleeps, the same way the Grinch steals a candy cane. Nog even escapes up what appears to be a chimney.
** And to ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': Nog steals Kukalaka from Leeta by sneaking her a substitute object while she sleeps, the same way the Grinch steals a candy cane. Nog even escapes up what appears to be a chimney.
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** Jake guilt-trips Nog into helping him. Nog sees through it immediately, but can't resist the power of Jake's [[LargeHam ham]].
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** Jake guilt-trips [[GuiltTripping guilt-trips]] Nog into helping him. Nog sees through it immediately, but can't resist the power of Jake's [[LargeHam ham]].
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* MadScientist: Giger believes that people die because their cells get bored of doing the same thing day in and day out, literally boring them to death. His invention intends to provide stimulating entertainment to the user's cells to entice them into immortality. He is convinces that a conspiracy called "The Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy" is plotting to sabotage and discredit him, despite the total lack of evidence of this conspiracy. Despite his obviously ludicrous theories, however, Giger is harmless, albeit paranoid and annoying.
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* MadScientist: Giger believes that people die because their cells get bored of doing the same thing day in and day out, literally boring them to death. His invention intends to provide stimulating entertainment to the user's cells to entice them into immortality. He is convinces convinced that a conspiracy called "The Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy" is plotting to sabotage and discredit him, despite the total lack of evidence of this conspiracy. Despite his obviously ludicrous theories, however, Giger is harmless, albeit paranoid and annoying.
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* AffablyEvil: While the Vorta usually come across as FauxAffablyEvil, in this episode, Weyoun seems to be genuinely hurt when his obsequious pleasantries are met with insults. He also makes sure that Jake gets the baseball card he was after
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* AffablyEvil: While the Vorta usually come across as FauxAffablyEvil, in this episode, Weyoun seems to be genuinely hurt when his obsequious pleasantries are met with insults. He also makes sure that Jake gets the baseball card he was afterafter.
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* NotSoDire: When Jake and Nog ask Giger what research he's doing, he begins his explanation with a question: "Do you want to die?" Jake and Nog both get nervous that it might be a threat, but it's just the start of Giger's immortality sales pitch.
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-->'''Jake:''' ''(panicking)'' What do we do?\\
'''Nog:''' Nothing. We're out of money.
'''Nog:''' Nothing. We're out of money.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Dr. Giger offers an absurd explanation for how his immortality machine works. Jake and Nog quickly dismiss him as a nut, but so many improbable events have occurred throughout ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek]]'': FasterThanLightTravel, EnergyBeings, [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], {{Telepathy}} and other PsychicPowers, TimeTravel, interaction with at least one AlternateUniverse, and many, many more. And these things aren't shown to be exceptional, either, but are ''known and accepted phenomena'' in ''Star Trek'', although sometimes they are accepted without being fully understood. There isn't really any reason to think that a scientist couldn't have found a way to use a machine to eliminate cell death, even if the explanation for how it works is bizarre.
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* ActorAllusion: Of course [[Creator/JeffreyCombs Weyoun]] would be interested in [[Film/ReAnimator a mad scientist's theories on cheating death]].
** Jake covers up his and Nog's foolish accusations against Kai Winn by claiming that they were [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk]]. Nog tries to tell the truth, but Sisko is too angry to want another word out of either of them.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jake and Nog directly accuse Kai Winn, Bajor's spiritual leader and a major political figure, of burglary and kidnapping. Surprising no one but the two of them, this ''immediately'' gets them in trouble.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the trouble they go through to get the baseball card, Jake and Nog finally manage to deliver it to Sisko, greatly improving the Captain's mood (and along the way, raising the spirits of almost everyone else on Deep Space Nine, even Giger and Weyoun).
* EntertaininglyWrong:
** Seeing Kai Winn meet with a Vedek who was at the auction, Jake believes that Winn, wanting a Bajoran mandala in the lot that Giger bought, had Giger kidnapped so she could steal it. [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], Winn had nothing to do with it.
** Jake and Nog spend an entire day meeting with just about every senior staff member on Deep Space Nine, as well as Dr. Giger, who is running unusual experiments right beneath Weyoun's quarters, on top of them confronting Kai Winn mere moments after Weyoun leaves her company. Weyoun takes this as a sign of some sort of plot, abducting Giger, Jake, and Nog to get to the heart of it. Once he realises that it all really ''was'' a big, meaningless coincidence, he lets them all go, even [[PetTheDog giving Jake and Nog the baseball card and taking an interest in Giger's research]].
* EntertaininglyWrong:
** Seeing Kai Winn meet with a Vedek who was at the auction, Jake believes that Winn, wanting a Bajoran mandala in the lot that Giger bought, had Giger kidnapped so she could steal it. [[NotMeThisTime As it turns out]], Winn had nothing to do with it.
** Jake and Nog spend an entire day meeting with just about every senior staff member on Deep Space Nine, as well as Dr. Giger, who is running unusual experiments right beneath Weyoun's quarters, on top of them confronting Kai Winn mere moments after Weyoun leaves her company. Weyoun takes this as a sign of some sort of plot, abducting Giger, Jake, and Nog to get to the heart of it. Once he realises that it all really ''was'' a big, meaningless coincidence, he lets them all go, even [[PetTheDog giving Jake and Nog the baseball card and taking an interest in Giger's research]].
* GilliganCut: When Jake and Nog confront Kai Winn, the scene immediately cuts to Captain Sisko chewing them out for accusing her of burglary and kidnapping.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: Giger.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: Giger. Upon hearing about Giger's research, Weyoun takes an interest in it as well.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Giger defiantly claims that Weyoun won't get his secrets without a fight. He doesn't even finish the sentence before a Jem'Hadar intimidates him into handing over the case he's carrying.
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* MadScientist: Giger believes that people die because their cells get bored of doing the same thing day in and day out, literally boring them to death. His invention intends to provide stimulating entertainment to the user's cells to entice them into immortality. He is convinces that a conspiracy called "The Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy" is plotting to sabotage and discredit him, despite the total lack of evidence of this conspiracy.
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* MadScientist: Giger believes that people die because their cells get bored of doing the same thing day in and day out, literally boring them to death. His invention intends to provide stimulating entertainment to the user's cells to entice them into immortality. He is convinces that a conspiracy called "The Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy" is plotting to sabotage and discredit him, despite the total lack of evidence of this conspiracy. Despite his obviously ludicrous theories, however, Giger is harmless, albeit paranoid and annoying.
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* NotMeThisTime: Remembering Winn's various nefarious schemes, Jake concludes that she had Dr. Giger kidnapped in order to steal a Bajoran mandala that was included in the lot he bought at Quark's auction. For once, Winn is totally innocent, and Jake and Nog land in some hot water for their accusations.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Weyoun takes a genuine interest in Giger's kooky research, even giving his Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber a try for himself.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Weyoun takes a genuine interest in Giger's kooky research, even giving his Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber a try for himself.
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* SoCrazyItMustBeTrue: Inverted; Weyoun doesn't believe that Jake and Nog's actions are an innocent attempt to secure a gift for Captain Sisko, so Jake spins a tale about the two of them working for Starfleet Intelligence to find Willie Mayes and stop him from changing history, which convinces Weyoun that the original, simpler story must be true, so he lets the boys go without incident.
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** When Nog lets slip that his latinum is stored underneath his bed, he immediately tries to deny while glancing around nervously.
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** When Nog lets slip that his latinum is stored underneath his bed, he immediately tries to deny it while glancing around nervously.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even a self-obsessed manipulator like Winn finds Weyoun annoying. Especially when he tries claiming that they're not so diferent.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even a self-obsessed manipulator like Winn finds Weyoun annoying. Especially when he tries claiming that they're not so diferent.different.
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* MacGuffin: The Willie Mays baseball card. Its only role in the episode is to be The Thing What Jake Wants.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A supporting character version. You'd expect that negotiating with a foreign power like the Dominion would be handled by Bajor's First Minister, Shakar, but he'd been written out of the show at this point, so instead it's handled by Kai Winn, who was specifically blocked from having any secular authority. However, Winn does have more experience negotiating treaties than Shakar, and she's only there to provide her recommendation back to Shakar.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A supporting character version. You'd expect that negotiating with a foreign power like the Dominion would be handled by Bajor's First Minister, Shakar, but he'd been written out of the show at this point, so instead it's handled by Kai Winn, who was specifically blocked from having any secular authority. However, Winn does have more experience negotiating treaties than Shakar, and she's only there to provide her recommendation back to Shakar.
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* MacGuffin: The Willie Mays baseball card. Its only role in the episode is to be The Thing What That Jake Wants.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A supporting character version. You'd expect that negotiating with a foreign power like the Dominion would be handled by Bajor's First Minister,Shakar, Shakaar, but he'd been written out of the show at this point, so instead it's handled by Kai Winn, who was specifically blocked from having any secular authority. However, Winn does have more experience negotiating treaties than Shakar, Shakaar, and she's only there to provide her recommendation back to Shakar.Shakaar.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A supporting character version. You'd expect that negotiating with a foreign power like the Dominion would be handled by Bajor's First Minister,
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** After being told off on no uncertain terms by Sisko and Wynn in quick succession, Weyoun lets his jovial demeanor drop for the rest of the episode. This continues, too: In the next episode he has noticeably less time for others' shenanigans than he usually does.
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** After being told off on no uncertain terms by Sisko and Wynn Winn in quick succession, Weyoun lets his jovial demeanor drop for the rest of the episode. This continues, too: In the next episode he has noticeably less time for others' shenanigans than he usually does.
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Weyoun accuses the pair of spying on him with Dr. Giger. After all, they've been running all around the station delivering items, visiting Dr. Giger's mysterious machines, and even meeting with Winn immediately after her conversation with him. Jake first tries to explain that he was only after a baseball card, but when Weyoun rejects that, he spins a tale of how they're investigating a temporal paradox involving Willie Mays. After hearing this, Weyong decides that Jake's first story was the truth and lets the pair go with the baseball card. Meanwhile. Dr. Giger's immortality machine immediately strikes the Vorta's interest.
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Weyoun accuses the pair of spying on him with Dr. Giger. After all, they've been running all around the station delivering items, visiting Dr. Giger's mysterious machines, and even meeting with Winn immediately after her conversation with him. Jake first tries to explain that he was only after a baseball card, but when Weyoun rejects that, he spins a tale of how they're investigating a temporal paradox involving Willie Mays. After hearing this, Weyong Weyoun decides that Jake's first story was the truth and lets the pair go with the baseball card. Meanwhile. Dr. Giger's immortality machine immediately strikes the Vorta's interest.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After they fail to buy the card, Nog suggests that Jake buy his dad something else, like a new pair of shoes. Unfortunately, Jake has already become convinced that the card is ''the'' gift.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: Jake paraphrases Picard's speech about why humans don't use money from ''First Contact'', "we try to better ourselves and all of Humanity". Nog just gets confused and asks "What does that mean, exactly?"; Jake gets flustered and clearly doesn't understand it himself. This was apparently a bit of SelfDeprecation by Ron Moore, who wrote both lines.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: Jake paraphrases Picard's speech about why humans don't use money from ''First Contact'', "we try to better ourselves and all of Humanity". Nog just gets confused and asks "What does that mean, exactly?"; Jake gets flustered and clearly doesn't understand it himself. himself, simply saying "it means [humans] don't need money." This was apparently a bit of SelfDeprecation by Ron Moore, who wrote both lines.
