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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Beginner Saltwater Aquariums
- - I was sweating, now I'm drooling...
I was sweating, now I'm drooling... I must be driving my wife crazy. It's 11:15pm and I am going on and on about live rocks, powerheads, xenias, hydrometers, nitrates, 12g nano reef tanks,--this stuff wasn't in my vocabulary 12 hours ago. She said, "I'm glad you like reading about all of that stuff. I was just going to say to get Elijah (our son, yeah he's 3, and I guess this tank's a little more about me then him :) ) a little tank and that be the end of it." I was looking at so many of the pictures posted here and other sites today. I starting to get excited thinking that I can kind of have part of the ocean in my home! I would just be pumped about seeing what grows out of the live rock I get! Anyway, I am into this, and plan on starting slowly. You guys were super helpful earlier, and helped to fan the flame and pique my interest. To help answer the questions I am about to ask, let me give you this little bit of background about me: I am a novice when it comes to saltwater. But, I'm a detailed person and love to learn. I have had fresh water fish, snakes, lizards, and a chinchilla...so I know and have a desire to take care of the pets I own. So here are my two questions: Where should I start? If you were me, (and you have, what will most likely be a 20 gal. tank) and you could pick my set-up for the first 6 months, what would you put in there? Keep in mind that I would like to have more than fish and a live rock (FOWLR-I think that's what you call it), but am willing to wait if it's wise. Next: What will it take on my part to move from a novice to novice-intermediate--so I can add more than the live rock and fish? Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this, and for your input. Please feel free to share whatever you'd like. |
Hi newguy and welcome to ff!! Merry Christmas! I'm glad everyone here was able to help feed your fire for saltwater, but let me warn, patience is going to be your best friend along this trip. Important to avoid impulse buying. I'm glad you like to read, research will be your next best friend. As for a 20 gallon and where to begin... let me start out by saying that you won't actually get live animals into that tank for at least a good 4 - 6 wks after setting it up. Freshwater is great, and saltwater isn't "harder", but it is very different. Spacing/stocking is different, water quality is going to be much more important, and will need to be monitored more than in freshwater. As for where to begin, it will be important to figure out what you wish to keep and accomplish. I warn about considering only the first 6 months right now, because animals grow quickly and as you learn about saltwater, you will get more and more excited and your wants may change quickly. A 20 gallon is a fun size, however, it will be more difficult than a larger tank, and you will be a lot more limited on what animals you can keep because of the size of the tank. In 20 gallon freshwater, you could average about 5 - 10 small fish, in saltwater... about 3 - 4 SMALL fish at very most. 20 gallons is considered a nano tank, so I will suggest doing some reading about nano tanks/setups. For basic equipment, I would consider these to get you started: tank/cover/stand (I would work with a glass cover instead of plastic) lighting (type will depend on what you wish to put into the tank) hydrometer test kits for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, KH, and calcium marine salt live sand (aragonite) instead of crushed coral 15 - 25 lbs of live rock filter (also dependent on what animals you decide to keep) heater (submersible) thermometer These are the basic needs for saltwater... but again, it is safer, cheaper, and easier to choose your animals first, and then set up accordingly. Do you have any ideas yet? If you post some names it will give us somewhere to start in helping you. We can either give you the thumbs up or down, and explain why, and make other suggestions based on your apparent likes and dislikes, and based on compatibility in a tank of that size. Merry Christmas and welcome aboard! |
New guy, since we've been through all that in a previous thread I'll give it my go. I'd say to plan for a reef tank. You say you want a little more then fish and rocks. That sounds great. Keep in mind that it will be cheaper to set up the tank for what you want in the end instead of starting with one tank and converting it to another. You have a few options. I'd recommend checking out http://www.nanotuners.com/ it'll make your head swim. There are some really great set ups turn key available there. My 20g home build. 20g tank stand 600gph overflow box. 20g sump/fuge in the stand ASM miniG skimmer http://www.thatpetplace.com/MainPro/...49BB+0578+0023 These can be had a little cheaper and can be added a few months down the road. Lighting. 150-250w metal halide 12-15K with PC or T5 supplemental lighting in 20K http://cgi.ebay.com/30-inch-250-HQI-...QQcmdZViewItem My friend bought 4 lights from this guy and has loved the quality and results. Much cheaper than anything you can get in the LFS. Thei light will meet ALL of your demands as your tank grows into it. Can also be moved up to a 50g if you ever upsize. I realize this is very expensive but lighting is the single most important part of reef keeping besides clean water. Again you can begin cycling the water without a light and get this a few weeks before you are ready to establish the tank. I think he offered a 150w with some PC bulbs for about $300 if you call him. My friend Kyle ordered the 15K bulbs he sells and loves them. Return pump from sump, Eheim 1048 (marine depot or Big al's have great prices) This is only to lift the water back to the tank. Not to add flow. Seio M620 for internal flow. 20 lbs Carib sea dry aragonite or oolite. 5 lbs of good live aragonite from LFS (generally $2 a lb) to seed the tank. 15-25lbs of quality live rock. the weight is only a guide line. As I pointed out in your other thread some live rock is very porous and light. What you are after is that kind. Surface area is the important thing with live rock. 20%-50% of the volume of the tank filled with rock is more then adequate as bio filtration. I use a lot, 240lbs in a 75g, because I like the look and don't have many fish. Seachem reef salt B Ionic supplements. For the sump/fuge I'd make it as simple as possible. Use a 20g tank, silicone in a piece of glass that fits the inside of the tank. Have it cut so it's about 9" tall. Silicone it in place so that your fuge is about 2/3 the length of the tank, or 20". This will still leave 10" for your skimmer and return pump. Just have the overflow fall into the fuge part of the tank. Over the fuge I'd recommend a Lights of America cheap Fluorex 42W flood light. They are very cheap and come in the perfect spectrum for growing algaes. That is a great place to start for about the most trouble free tank. So what is a fuge? A refugium is a place for "unwanted" algaes and macro algaes to grow. By allowing the perfect place for algae to grow under the tank, your display will be devoid of algae. The algaes in the fuge will use up the available nutrients so that it cannot thrive in the display. By "harvesting", thinning back and throwing away, clumps of the algae you permanently remove unwanted excess nutrients from the tank. It also becomes an area for critters to thrive in unharmed by fish. Copepods, decapods, and amphipods will thrive. These will overflow into the return pump and end up in the display tank. Your fish and corals will quickly eat them up. A tank like this will grow most any coral you could ever want. After about a year you won't really need to feed the tank as it will become it's own ecosystem. This is a lot of equipment and commitment, I understand that. The thing to keep in mind is that you can have much simpler set ups but when problems arise they can be devastating. I prefer to build "trouble free" and less maintenance tanks. You have several routes you can take. I recommend searching you local area for a reef club, chances are there is one. You could get most of this equipment used for a lot less money. If time and money are a factor those custom nano cubes are working great ffor many of my friends. They are somewhat limiting on what you can keep in them but will provide access to about 3/4 of what is available to the reef enthusiast. Stay in touch. |
Thanks again, to both of you, for your insight and help. I appreciate your passion and knowledge. You've both mentioned the importance of patience, and I am in no rush. I look forward to getting the basics set up and putting the live rock in (I probably won't even do that for a couple of weeks). I don't mind waiting 4-6 weeks for the tank to cycle. The more time I have to plan and think things through the better. I'll be thinking though my last thread, this one, as well as reading others to try to gain more insight and really nail things down. I'm not sure exactly what I want in the tank. This whole thing started over a clown fish, so that's one definite :wink: I will keep in touch and will be sure to post my progress and any more questions. If you ever think of anything else you'd like to share regarding my situation, please feel free to add them to either thread...I'll be checking back here often and I do take the time to research and re-read what you've suggested. Enjoy the day. |
If clownfish are what you desire, I would limit myself to ocellaris clowns in that size of a tank, and remember, there's not much room for "fish" in a tank of that size. Ocellaris are the smallest of the clowns, and usually the easiest to find, also. Also, if planning a clown, I'd also decide early on if an anemone is important to you, because many many corals will simply not work in that small of a tank with an anemone, and each clown has specific anemones it will take to. Also, a tank raised clown may not understand the use of an anemone, where a wild caught clown will. I hope this helps a little more. |
Well if you want a clownfish it shouls do fine in your tank with out an anemone. Most would get to big for that size tank anyway. And if you eventually want corals you shouldnt get an anemone anyway. The clownfish can do fine without one. Aldo, the are many nice corals you could add to your tank in the future if your lighting is right. I hope we can help you out with whatever else you may need. |
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Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (episode)
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(written from a Production point of view)
When holographic mobsters assume control of Vic Fontaine's lounge, Bashir, O'Brien, and others plot to run Vic's rival out of business and restore the program to normal.
Summary Edit
While in Vic Fontaine's holosuite club, Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir try to convince Vic to join them in their Alamo program. Vic declines, and instead offers to sing a tune to get them into a "Texas state of mind." In the middle of Vic's Alamo rendition, however, there is a flash in the program and he is suddenly booed off the stage, as a new, raunchy act emerges from behind the curtain, stealing Vic's show. Confused and in a state of disbelief, Vic gets shuffled by the crowd; when the crowd parts, he is confronted by Frankie Eyes, a gangster with an axe to grind against Vic. Frankie abruptly informs Vic that he has recently purchased the hotel, casino, and lounge. Vic, who is no longer welcome in the club, is being replaced with a new act.
O'Brien requests that the computer remove the two new, offending characters from the program, but nothing happens. So he tries to freeze the entire holosuite program, again to no avail. Frankie is accompanied by a thug, Tony Cicci, who begins to get physical with Vic, as Frankie demands Vic leave the premises. To defuse the situation, Vic agrees to leave peacefully, while Frankie checks out his new casino. Bashir and O'Brien discuss how to fix the errant program, and one solution is to completely reset it but this would also reset Vic and wipe out his memory. They agree to find another, less destructive way to save their holographic friend.
Act OneEdit
Back in Ops, the crew members debate the true value of a holodeck "friend," with Worf arguing that Vic is merely a hologram, and should be treated as such, even if he is a talented entertainer. O'Brien, Nog, and Kira all argue that Vic is "more than just a program." Bashir soon learns that the new adversarial holosuite character has been implanted purposely by Felix, the designer of the program, as a jack-in-the-box, a character buried very deeply within the program storyline designed to shake things up (in order to keep Bashir's interest), and not easily removed. Felix warns Bashir that the jack-in-the-box is also period-specific, meaning that it must be beaten with 1962 means and methods. In other words, Frankie would need to be shot with a period weapon and not a phaser. However simply killing the gangster is not an option as the mob could retaliate against Vic, and if Vic were to die his pattern would be wiped from the simulation. Captain Benjamin Sisko emerges from his office and asks what everyone is talking about. The crew explain what's happened to Vic, but are surprised when Sisko isn't interested and orders them all back to work. Nog promises his help, since Vic's counsel helped him deal with losing his leg and saved his career. Kira also promises her support, as well as Odo's, since they both owe Vic for his help in finally bringing them together.
Later, Sisko and Kasidy are enjoying a quiet, romantic dinner, when Kasidy broaches the subject of Vic's dilemma. Sisko is surprised to find Kasidy coming to Vic's defense insisting that Vic is more friend than program, and asks her to change the subject. Kasidy asks Ben why he's never been to Vic's, but he isn't willing to discuss the issue, and Kasidy decides to drop it. Back on the holosuite, O'Brien and Bashir go to room 107, Vic's room in the hotel, only to find Vic beaten and bruised, and still shaky on his feet.
Act TwoEdit
With three bruised ribs and a sprained wrist, Vic explains how he was roughed up as a warning message to speed his departure. Frankie is a childhood rival from Vic's youth, whom Vic used to beat mercilessly in street stickball, playing as children. O'Brien and Bashir promise Vic they will hatch a plan to end the jack-in-the-box threat.
Kira and Odo begin infiltrating the revamped casino and club, now crawling with gangster clientèle; Vic's band has been replaced by a number of sultry, burlesque dancers and blues musicians. Odo, enchanted by the action on-stage, befriends Cicci and the other gangsters at the bar. Kira, meanwhile, is approached by Frankie, who takes an obvious interest in her. Kira accompanies Frankie to the roulette table to distract him, while Odo endears himself to Cicci by effortlessly stretching his changeling arm, in what appears to be the best bar trick ever concocted. In this way, Odo learns from the henchmen that Frankie is merely a pawn of Carl Zeemo, a big-time gangster who is behind the purchase of the hotel.
Back in Vic's hotel room, the gang (which now includes Kasidy and Ezri Dax) begins planning the fall of Frankie Eyes. Vic explains how Frankie's business works by him paying "skim" money to the big boss every month – so the simplest, most effective way to get rid of the gangster is to steal the casino's holdings, and deny Zeemo his payoff.
Act ThreeEdit
The main stash of mob money is locked in a safe in the casino countroom, guarded by two countmen and a guard.
The gang begins reconnoitering the casino to develop a plan: Frankie shows Kira to the countroom, where large amounts of cash are accumulated and stored in the safe. Kasidy, playing her part as a casino gambler, continually tries to strike up a conversation with the countroom guard, distracting him from his duties. Odo introduces Ezri as someone new in town, whereby Cicci immediately hires her as a cocktail waitress. Vic appears on the casino floor, pleading with Cicci to allow him to see Frankie. Frankie, accompanied by the cool-acting Kira, rebuffs Vic's advances rather insultingly, and leads Kira toward the poker table.
Sisko is upset that Kasidy and the majority of his senior staff are involved in the caper, calling the entire affair "nonsense". Kasidy defends their actions as friends helping out friends in need, and Ben tells her that his discomfort has nothing to do with the fact that Vic Fontaine is a hologram. When pressed, Sisko further explains that he feels uncomfortable with the setting (Las Vegas 1962), because the racial strife of the era meant that people of color were never allowed to be customers at a place like Vic's lounge. Kasidy responds by explaining that Vic's program is not designed to contain any of the racial tensions of 1960s United States of America and neither she or Jake have ever felt uncomfortable there. Ben tells her that's the lie... the 1960s were a hard time for people of color (a life, as Benny Russell, he personally experienced (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")) with the civil rights movement still in the early stages and he doesn't want to pretend that it wasn't. Kasidy defends this and tells Sisko that she believes they can act out how things could, and should, have been, almost in a Utopian-type environment, where one's only limitations are "the ones we impose on ourselves." This has a noticeable effect on the Captain.
In the hotel room, the characters realize that in order to pull off their plan, they need another person helping. With Worf and Quark most likely unwilling to help, the gang begin to worry until, to their surprise, Sisko enters the room promising his support, having been swayed by Kasidy's argument.
Act FourEdit
In Vic's room, the "crew" go over their plan once more:
- Kira keeps Frankie preoccupied; while he is busy flirting with her, he will become oblivious to what happens on the casino floor – and therefore, the countroom;
- Vic and Sisko (in the guise of "high-rollers") will attract a lot of attention at the gaming tables (and therefore draw attention away from the countroom) by throwing around a wad of cash;
- At precisely 11:45 pm, one of the countmen (Al) leaves the room to phone his mother, and is gone for exactly eight minutes, while the other countman (Howard) has a martini brought in. Ezri (as the cocktail waitress) delivers a drink to Bashir (sitting at poker table three), who, with some sleight-of-hand while tipping her, slips a few drops of ipecac into the martini meant for Howard. Ezri then delivers the drink tray with the martini on it to the countroom.
- Once Ezri leaves the countroom, Kasidy runs up to the guard outside the countroom and tells him O'Brien stole her chips. O'Brien plays innocent, and together they create enough of a disturbance to keep the guard away from the door for at least two minutes.
- As soon as Howard takes a sip of his martini, the ipecac will case violent nausea, and Howard will come flying out of the countroom "at warp speed"; with Yates and O'Brien keeping the guard distracted, Nog enters the now-empty countroom, dressed as a maintenance worker. Using his superior Ferengi hearing, Nog will crack the safe.
- As soon as Nog opens the safe, the drink tray Ezri left on the table will shape-shift back into Odo, morphing part of himself into a suitcase. While Odo transfers the contents of the safe to the suitcase, Nog removes his maintenance uniform to reveal a security guard uniform.
- Finally, Nog and Odo will then carry the million dollars out of the casino, (taking care not to draw attention to themselves) and dump the cash into the garbage cans outside.
Without the money, Frankie has no skim money to pay Zeemo his cut, and everything will return to normal.
The entire caper should take, by Sisko's estimate, eight minutes; Bashir unabashedly predicts it will take only five. They will need to carry out their plan the following night, as Frankie's big boss Zeemo will arrive the night after to collect his skim money. The crew spend their remaining time practicing their various grifts to cut their execution time down to minimum.
The following night, all decked out in 1960s period attire, the eight participants march through the Promenade into a half-empty Quark's into Vic's, turning many an eye in the joint. Quark, who has traditionally viewed Vic as competition, and has never gotten close, remarks, "I'm telling you, Morn... something's going on at Vic's that we don't know about."
Their plan underway, Kira enters to distract Frankie. Julian orders his vodka martini (stirred, not shaken) from Ezri. Vic encourages Benjamin to loosen up the purse-strings, so as to appear the part of high-roller; he reluctantly increases his wager from $100 to $2,000. Kira lures Frankie into a private table in the restaurant, away from the action.
When a rogue customer accidentally spills Ezri's drink tray, Julian saves the moment by grabbing another drink, tainting it, and handing it to Ezri for delivery. Their plans take another turn for the worse when the regular countman is not there, replaced by an acerbic, insulting man. After a brief repartee, Ezri finally persuades the new countman to gulp down the drink, while Sisko and Vic do their thing at the tables. Yates and O'Brien easily distract the guard (perhaps too easily, as O'Brien will soon discover), so Nog slips into the countroom when the countman scrambles to the restroom.
Nog, who was unprepared to find the safe employing an auto-relock tumbler, cannot crack the lock. In the meantime, all the other participants stretch out their parts, so as to give Nog longer to achieve his goal. With Kira slowly nursing her drink, Frankie is surprised to have a guest... the big Mr. Zeemo himself, arriving in town a day early to collect his money – the very money Nog and Odo are trying desperately to get their hands onto in the countroom. Kira, stalling for time, exclaims what an honor it is to meet him, to which Mr. Zeemo replies matter-of-factly, "I know." Nog, still struggling with the safe, is informed by Odo that they've expended their allotted eight minutes.
Act FiveEdit
Bashir, folding a winning full house hand, walks away from the poker tables to intercept the second countman, re-routing him away from the countroom. Vic causes a scene by pretending familiarity with Mr. Zeemo's escort, a young blond beauty, only to be escorted away himself by Cicci. As a last resort, Sisko begins throwing money around – literally. He casts handfuls of cash into the air here and there, causing a sensation (and quite a disruption) on the casino floor.
In the countroom, Nog finally unlocks the door to the safe. Odo begins putting the safe's million dollars into his "briefcase" of an arm, while outside O'Brien, carrying on the act for too long, gets arrested for stealing. Leading O'Brien away to a holding cell, the guard is instructed to perform a strip search on the poor chief. Yates pretends to break down, to keep the other guard's head turned at the last minute, while Odo and Nog flee the countroom, making their escape. Their flight takes them, with the money, past Mr. Zeemo, astounded at seeing all the money floating around the casino floor.
It is a different story in the countroom, however, as there is no money in the safe, much to the shock of Frankie. Not being able to produce the cash, and appearing to have squandered the money like confetti on the casino floor, Frankie is escorted out drearily, past the burlesque show, past the blues band, and right past the co-conspirators, neatly lined up at the bar in order:
- Bashir, the drink-doctorer,
- Nog, the safecracker,
- Dax, the cocktail waitress,
- Odo, the bag-man,
- Kira, the decoy,
- Sisko, the high-roller,
- Yates, the victim,
- and, of course, Vic.
- (O'Brien, the falsely-accused patsy, is not present as he is being strip-searched)
As Frankie is led through the curtains, presumably to meet his doom, the ambiance in Vic's lounge immediately returns to how it was before the Jack-in-the-Box upset everything. Vic offers a glass of the bubbly to each of his co-conspirators (each of his friends) when suddenly O'Brien appears, putting his jacket (and, presumably, clothes) back on after his encounter with the guards. Vic agrees to accompany O'Brien and Bashir on their Alamo program any time they desire – "coonskin cap and all". Vic and Sisko conclude the adventure by together crooning the duet "The Best Is Yet to Come" to the delight of all.
Memorable quotes Edit
"Maybe there's a pointer fault in the holosuite's parameter file."
- - O'Brien, attempting to explain the sudden changes in Vic's
"What's a hollosweets?"
- - Cicci, trying to understand O'Brien's technobabble
"We cannot ignore the truth about the past."
"Going to Vic's won't make us forget who we are or where we came from. It reminds us that we are no longer bound by any limitations. Except the ones we impose on ourselves."
- - Sisko and Kasidy, on historical accuracy
"Miles... You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"That depends on what you're thinking."
- - Bashir and O'Brien
"Mr. Zeemo, it's an honor to meet you."
"I know."
- - Kira and Zeemo
"Robbing casinos isn't part of any Starfleet job description I've ever read."
- - O'Brien
"So, where are you from again?"
"That's in Jersey, right?"
- - Tony Cicci and Odo
"If you guys screw up, I'm the one who gets buried in the desert."
- - Vic Fontaine
"You call this a cheesesteak? I wouldn't feed this to my parole officer."
- - Tony Cicci
"Once he takes a sip of his drink, Howard will come flying out that count room at warp speed."
- - Bashir
"I'm telling you Morn, something going on in Vic's that we don't know about."
- - Quark, as both he and Morn watch the station staff along with Kasidy Yates walk by
"Vodka martini. Stirred, not shaken."
- - Bashir, a play on the favored drink of James Bond (who took his drink "shaken, not stirred")
"What do you mean, uh-oh? We don't have time for uh-oh!"
- - Nog and Odo
"Where have you been?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
- - Bashir and O'Brien, after the latter returns from possibly being strip-searched
Background information Edit
Story and scriptEdit
- The working title of this episode was "Buduh-bing Buduh-bang". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library)
- This episode was a pet project for Ira Steven Behr for some time; "I'd wanted to do a caper show for years, but I'd never been able to pull it off. It was now or never – and with Vic Fontaine and a holosuite version of Las Vegas within reach, all the elements seemed to be in place." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- The script borrows from (and parodies) the 1960 Lewis Milestone crooner's film, Ocean's Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and Angie Dickinson. This story, about a similarly convoluted casino heist/inside job, was remade forty-one years later by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García and Julia Roberts. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Ira Behr had wanted Avery Brooks to sing on the show for some time, and after shooting this episode, Behr commented, "It's just jaw-dropping how good he is." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Previously, Brooks had briefly sung in the episodes "Move Along Home", "Far Beyond the Stars" and "His Way".
- Of Benjamin Sisko's controversial racial commentary in this episode, Behr explains, "We didn't want the audience, especially the younger audience, to think that 1962 Las Vegas was a place where you had a lot of black people sitting in the audience at nightclubs, or enjoying themselves at hotels and casinos. That just didn't happen. So by having someone of Sisko's historical understanding questioning that fact, we could clarify before we got him to Vic's that he's well aware that Vegas was very, very, very white." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- By the time this episode aired, Behr was well aware that there had been something of a fan backlash against Vic Fontaine; some fans loved him, but others disliked the concept of the character. Behr specifically wrote Sisko's role to act as a surrogate for the fans who wouldn't accept Vic, with the idea being that if Sisko could be won over, then anyone could be won over. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- The Vic/Sisko duet at the end of the episode, "The Best Is Yet to Come", refers to the nine-part series finale. In the production order, the "Final Chapter" commenced right after "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" with "Penumbra." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 666)
- The final draft for the script was completed on 9 December 1998. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library)
- "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" was filmed before this episode, but this episode was broadcast first. As such, this episode was the last standalone Deep Space Nine episode to be shot. The reason for the switch was that Paramount were very impressed by "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", which also cost a lot to film, and wanted it to air during February sweeps. Ronald D. Moore commented "The studio wanted to do 'Badda-Bing" before 'Inter Arma' in the air date schedule because they spent so much money on 'Badda-Bing'. It became just such a handsome show that they wanted it in the February sweeps". (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, No. 162 #4/5, p. 55)
- For the role of Carl Zeemo, Ira Behr states, "We wanted an actor who would carry the weight of history to any film buffs who were watching the show. Marc did a million film noir gangster movies. And he was perfect as the character." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Robert O'Reilly (better known for his role as Gowron) portrays the replacement accountant. He was credited here as Bobby Reilly to help hide the fact that it was the same actor. O'Reilly commented "Ira Steven Behr and I talked about it and we thought it would make a fun trivia question for the fans if I showed my face once without the Klingon make-up. I was even billed as Bobby Reilly, which is the name I went by in the early sixties when this episode supposedly takes place. Initially, I wanted my billing to be a goodbye name. you know, and Ira said, 'Well we're not sure whether or not this going to be your last episode'. I thought it would be amusing if I used Cy O'Nara, which would have summed up my farewell nicely, but Ira emphasized, 'Don't do that because you'll probably be back as Gowron'. Good thing I listened to him". ("Hail to the Chief", TV Zone special #34) O'Reilly had in fact played a holographic character out of Klingon make-up before in TNG: "Manhunt".
- Art director Randy McIlvain says he studied both Milestone's Ocean's Eleven and the 1964 George Sidney movie Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret, for inspiration in designing the casino. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- The keyboardist of Vic's band plays a Hammond organ instead of the usual piano during the mob's interregnum, lending a notable change of mood to the music.
- The music played when the crew walks into Quark's to get to the holosuite casino is a re-orchestrated version of the Deep Space Nine main theme. Portions of this arrangement can also be heard at various points in the episode. The music played in the casino at the beginning of the episode, after Frankie Eyes takes over, is an arrangement of Night Train.
- Despite the fact that the crew would not have been in any actual danger in attempting the caper, the 30-second promotional spot suggested that they would be "history" if they failed. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library)
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- Ira Steven Behr commented "It didn't matter to us that the regular characters weren't in jeopardy. None of us wanted to do the old 'Holosuite-is-malfunctioning-and-we're-all-gonna-die' thing. We just wanted to do a show about helping this hologram." In fact, Behr saw the story as something of a commentary on how invested Star Trek fans can become in the characters; "In the same way that viewers have invested in the artifice of Star Trek and care about characters who aren't real, we decided to do a show about our characters caring about Vic." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Behr also commented "I don't think the fans of Star Trek realize just how difficult a show like "His Way" or "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" is. They think that "Far Beyond the Stars", "The Visitor", a very socially conscious show or a show of a very sensitive drama, those are the shows that are the toughest to do. But in a series like this, to do light, successful humor, romance, is incredibly hard on every level. Not just the writing, but just production-wise and everything. I think part of the reason that we love them so much is because we know just what kind of sweat and blood went into them, to make them seem so fluffy, and so light and clever, whenever they are working, those qualities". (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, No. 162 #4/5, p. 55)
- Nana Visitor was a big fan of this show, as she felt that although Kira was acting in a somewhat unusual manner, the role was very much in keeping with Kira's backstory; "She must have done it with so many Cardassians when she was doing terrorist work. I mean, as a terrorist, a woman would have to get used to the fact that using her sexuality to charm men and to trick her way in was one of her strengths. That's a reality." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) This would seem to recall the second season episode "The Homecoming", where she flirts with a Cardassian guard, causing him to lower his defenses and allowing her to knock him out.
- James Darren enjoyed the episode, particularly working with Avery Brooks. Darren commented "Avery's so hip. He's a killer actor and terrific singer and he plays the piano like you wouldn't believe. Avery's a neat guy and singing that duet with him in that episode was such a blast. Every time I had something to do on Deep Space Nine, whether it was a single scene or a full episode about Vic, it was a treat. I was hungry for more to do on the series only because I loved it so much". ("Class Act", TV Zone special #34)
- This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series.
- Isiah Lavender III wrote about the scene where Sisko discusses his issues with the Vic Fontaine program: "The situation is remarkable not only as a scene in Star Trek but also in the world of commercial television. Sisko is not explaining himself to a white outsider, human or alien, but to a woman from his own background. He includes her in his historical concerns through his use of the possessive pronoun our. And Yates responds in kind, putting forth a different perspective from within their shared community of concern. Rank and gender introduce complicating dynamics, but the communal rhetoric renders the debate as internal, indicative of how black people position themselves both in the productive reality of the show and in the fictive future of its narrative. Crucially, these black characters are allowed to remember and to speak in a way that was unavailable to Uhura and Sulu two decades earlier. The production environment for racial representation has changed that much at least". (Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction)
- Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode, although his character is mentioned.
- The comment that Frankie makes to Kira about the fact that there isn't a statue of Bugsy Siegel in Vegas is the same as the comment that Hyman Roth makes to Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II about Moe Greene (the fictional "Siegel").
- Bashir orders a vodka martini "stirred, not shaken", for his part of the plan. This is a James Bond joke, in keeping with the tradition of making a joke of this nature during holodeck based episodes in which he appears.(citation needed • edit)
- O'Brien's role as the innocent patsy, getting strip searched, is another example of O'Brien must suffer.
- Unlike the other songs Vic sings on the show, the "Alamo" song he sings near the beginning of this episode is not an old standard; it was written specifically for the show.
Production history Edit
- Final draft script: 9 December 1998
- Premiere airdate: 24 February 1999
Video and DVD releases Edit
- This volume uses the production order for this and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"; this episode was broadcast first but filmed second. It appears second on the video release.
- Star Trek - Music Box VHS collection
- As part of the DS9 Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Rene Auberjonois as Odo
- Nicole de Boer as Counselor Ezri Dax
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf
- Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Alexander Siddig as Doctor Julian Bashir
- Nana Visitor as Colonel Kira Nerys
Guest stars Edit
- Penny Johnson as Kasidy Yates
- Marc Lawrence as Mr. Zeemo
- Mike Starr as Tony Cicci
- Robert Miano as Frankie Eyes
- Aron Eisenberg as Nog
- Bobby Reilly as Replacement Accountant
- Chip Mayer as Ryan
- James Wellington as Al
Special guest star Edit
Co-stars Edit
- Andrea Robinson as Blonde
- Sammy Micco as Croupier
- Jacqueline Case as a Dancer
- Kelly Cooper as a Dancer
- Michelle Johnston as a Dancer
- Michelle Rudy as a Dancer
- Kelly Sheerin as a Dancer
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Paige Brooks as a Casino patron
- George Colucci as Henry
- Brian Demonbreun as a Human science division officer
- Leslie Hoffman as a Casino patron
- Luther Hughes as Vic's bass player
- David B. Levinson as Broik
- Linda Madalone as a Casino patron
- Dan McGee as an Human operations division lieutenant
- Mark Riccardi as a Casino patron
- Chuck Shanks as a Human operations division officer
- Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn
- Unknown performers as
References Edit
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External links Edit
- "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" at Wikipedia
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An eligible person for whom the applicable premium has been received and accepted by the Company. The maximum age of an eligible person is 70 years (not yet attained their 71st birthday).
Any services or supplies provided for the diagnosis and treatment of a specific Covered Injury or Sickness which are: (a) ordered or recommended by a Physician; and (b) required for the treatment or management of a medical condition or symptom; and (c) the most appropriate supply or level of service which can safely be provided to the Insured Person; and (d) provided in accordance with approved and generally accepted medical or surgical practice; and (e) not for the convenience of the Insured Person, his Physician, or another provider; and (f) not for services or supplies which are experimental or investigational; and (g) furnished in the least intensive type of medical care setting required by the Insured Person's condition. Services and supplies will not automatically be considered Medically Necessary because they were ordered by a Physician.
A person properly licensed to practice medicine in the jurisdiction and/or country where the treatment is provided and includes doctors of medicine, general practitioners, specialists and medical consultants other than the Insured Person and his/her immediate family.
Any injury or sickness, or complications arising there from, which manifests itself, or for which a physician was consulted or for which treatment or medication was prescribed or taken in the 180 days immediately prior to the Period of Insurance.
An amount not to exceed the charge routinely made by providers in the locality where the charge is incurred for similar services or supplies. Consideration will be given to: (a) the Insured Person's condition; and (b) unusual circumstances or complications; and (c) requirements for additional time, skill or experience. The Company will determine the Usual and Customary charge and if it is covered by the Policy.
Any provision of the Policy which, on its effective date, is in conflict with the statutes of the legal jurisdiction of the Insured Person, is hereby amended to conform to the minimum requirements of such statutes.
The Policy, and individual application of the Insured Person constitute the entire contract between the parties. No change in the Policy shall be valid unless approved by an executive officer of the Company and unless such approval be endorsed hereon or attached hereto.
Written notice of claim must be given to the Administrator within 45 days after the occurrence or commencement of any loss covered by the Policy, or as soon thereafter as is reasonably possible. Notice given by or on behalf of the claimant to the Administrator at its offices, or to any authorized agent of the Company, with information sufficient to identify the Insured Person, shall be deemed notice of claim.
Upon receipt of a written notice of claim, the Company or Administrator will furnish to the claimant such forms as are usually furnished for filing Proof of Loss. If such forms are not furnished within 15 days after the giving of such notice, the claimant shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of the Policy as to Proof of Loss upon submitting within the time fixed in the Policy for filing Proofs of Loss.
Written Proof of Loss must be furnished to the Company within 45 days after the date of such loss, or as soon thereafter as reasonably possible. The completed claim form must be accompanied by the original Proofs of Loss such as bills, receipts, etc. for all expenses. Photocopies are not acceptable.
Indemnity for loss of life will be payable in accordance with the beneficiary designation and the provisions respecting such payment which may be prescribed therein and effective at the time of payment.
The beneficiary designation for Insured Persons shall be "ESTATE." An Insured Person may name a beneficiary or change a named beneficiary by written request to the Company. The request takes effect on the date it is executed regardless of whether or not the Insured Person is living when the Company receives it. The Company will be relieved of further responsibility to the extent of any payment made in good faith before receiving said request.
The Policy is not in lieu of and does not affect any requirement for coverage by Workers' Compensation Insurance, or any other occupational benefit plan or public assistance program.
The Company has the right to change the rate at which premiums will be calculated for any time period or Period of Insurance under the Policy. Additional premium may be required to cover certain war risks otherwise excluded. Persons traveling to an area where a state of war exists, that is faced with the threat of war, or is in a state of civil unrest must include that information on the application.
If by reason of an accident covered by the Policy the Insured Person is unavoidably exposed to the elements and as a result suffers (within six months after the accident), a loss attributable to such exposure, the loss will be covered. If the body of an Insured Person has not been found within six months of an accident or disappearance of the aircraft or vessel on which the Insured Person was known to be a passenger, then it shall be deemed (subject to all other terms and conditions of this insurance), that the Insured Person shall have suffered loss of life at the time of the incident.
While a claim is pending, the Company has the right at their expense: (a) to have the Insured Person who has a loss, examined by a Physician when and as often as is reasonably necessary; and (b) in case of death to make an autopsy, unless forbidden by law or local custom.
No legal action may be taken against the Company: (a) before 90 days following the date the fully completed Proof of Loss is sent to the Company; or (b) after three years following the date Proof of Loss is due.
The coverages under the Policy are not generally assignable. However, benefits payable for services received under the Medical Expense Benefits provision may be assigned to the provider of those services in accordance with the Payment of Claims provision of the Policy.
If payment of a premium is not honored by the bank or credit card drawn upon, the insurance is deemed to have not been purchased.
If on the last day of the Period of Insurance, the Insured Person is hospitalized (as an inpatient) outside their Home Country for a Covered Injury or Sickness, the Period of Insurance will be extended until it is medically confirmed that further inpatient hospitalization is no longer necessary, subject to an overall maximum of 30 days beyond the last day of the Period of Insurance
All coverage provided to an Insured Person under the Policy will automatically terminate on the earliest of: (a) the end of the Period of Insurance; (b) the beginning of any period for which any required premium has not been paid; (c) the date the Policy is cancelled; or (d) the date the Insured Person cancels his/her coverage under the Policy. Should the Policy be cancelled by the Policyholder or the Company, the Insured Person's coverage will continue through the end of their Period of Insurance, provided the applicable premium has been received by the Company.
This insurance does not cover, nor has premium been charged for losses resulting from:
Subrogation means the Company has the right to request a refund of payments made under the following conditions;
The company will be subrogated to any claim you have against a third party provided:
The company can only seek repayment of the amount of benefits paid.
If you collect any sums for damages from the third party, you will be liable to the Company for the benefits already paid by the Company. If you sue to recover expenses, the Company can join the suit. If you do not sue, the Company can do so in your name.
You are obligated to:
Once settlement has been made and the Company has been reimbursed the amounts of benefits paid, no other benefits are payable for the condition or related condition which gave rise to the claim.
Requests for policy cancellations and refunds must be in writing.
Policies cancelled before the Period of Insurance begins are eligible for a full refund. After the Period of Insurance begins the entire premium is considered fully earned and none will be funded.
NOTE: The Period of Insurance for Trip Cancellation and Curtailment Coverage begins 30 days before the departure date on the application.
Pan-American Life Insurance Company collects nonpublic information about you from the following sources; (a) Information we receive from you in applications or other forms; (b) Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others; and (c) Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
We do not disclose any nonpublic information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.
We restrict access to your non public personal information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.
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Dana Milbank: Schapiro rescued the SEC
In the early days of the Obama administration, I sat in a Capitol Hill hearing room and listened to Harry Markopolos, the whistle-blower in the Bernie Madoff scandal, bemoan the toothless Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC, which ignored his warnings about Madoff, is "captive to the industry it regulates, and it is afraid of bringing big cases against the largest, most powerful firms," he said. "The SEC continues to roar like a mouse and fight like a flea. … I gift-wrapped and delivered the largest Ponzi scheme in history to them, and somehow they couldn't be bothered to conduct a thorough and proper investigation."
But since then, the private investigator has come upon a rather different trail of evidence. "There's a total sea change at the agency," Markopolos told me Tuesday. "They are aggressive. There's no more free passes on Wall Street. They eagerly seek out big cases. … They used to be industry's lapdog and now they're actually an investor's watchdog."
The difference, he said, is Mary Schapiro, who announced Monday that she will step down as SEC chairman after four tumultuous years on the job. It's not a stretch to say she has saved the regulatory body from irrelevance, if not outright extinction, and she has rebuilt it into a powerful presence on Wall Street. When she took over the agency, there were voices inside and outside the administration calling for carving up the agency, which missed the Madoff scandal.
Instead, the SEC wound up gaining authority under the Dodd-Frank financial legislation, and it is now filing more enforcement actions – 734 in fiscal year 2012 and 735 in 2011 – than at any point in its history. It has issued a flurry of new regulations, recovered billions of dollars for investors and taxpayers and gone after top officials and giant firms such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase over their role in the financial crisis. The SEC uncovered one of the largest known insider-trading schemes, at Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon Group.
And how has the financial industry fared under the aggressive new SEC? Well, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up about 60 percent since she took over. Wall Street firms' profits this year are forecast to be $15 billion, double last year's level. It's hard to say banks have suffered.
The turnaround is more significant than one woman's achievement. It shows that tough regulation can be good for everybody – even the industries that reflexively complain about government rules.
Certainly, Schapiro's tenure has not been all triumph. The SEC has implemented only about 30 percent of the regulations it needs to do under Dodd-Frank. The rule-making process has been slowed down by industry (the U.S. Chamber of Commerce got a federal appeals court to invalidate one of its first major efforts, the "proxy access" rule) and by liberal critics, including SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar, who hold out for more aggressive regulations. Aguilar joined this summer with the Republican commissioners to kill an effort by Schapiro to tighten regulation of the mutual-fund industry.
Democratic lawmakers have criticized the SEC for foot-dragging in finalizing the high-visibility Volcker Rule, which restricts banks from gambling with their own money. Schapiro has also drawn complaints that she settled cases with offenders for too little and that she hasn't done enough to restrict the high-speed computer trading that caused the "flash crash" of 2010, when the Dow dropped 600 points in 15 minutes.
But there is no doubt she revived the SEC from its moribund state in 2009, and she substantially strengthened financial regulations. She used her political skill – gained in previous stints as an SEC commissioner and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission – to shake up the bureaucracy at the agency and to protect the SEC's powers. When the Obama administration floated a proposal to break up the agency in 2009, she went public with her objections; the White House backed down.
Inside the agency, she simplified and accelerated enforcement actions and increased the agency's ability to respond to tips – the sort of thing that would have allowed Harry Markopolos to stop Madoff. "If it hadn't been for her, that agency wouldn't exist today," he said. "Now they take on industry and they're not afraid. Investors are a lot safer today because of what she's done."
If they're being honest, the banks will have to admit that the confidence she restored in the SEC has made them better off, too.
Parting Shot — 3.29.17
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