Pynchon on the Larroquette show

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So, what's the connection to _Lot 49?_

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on 18/12/02 2:49 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5, Episode 523,
> "In the Cards," Stardate 50929.4 (aired 6/09/97) ...
> 
> "As the Dominion threat to the Alpha Quadrant
> intensifies, Jake notices Sisko is growing
> increasingly depressed. Hearing that Quark plans to
> auction off a collection of antiquities that includes
> a vintage Willie Mays baseball card, he decides
> obtaining the card for his father is the perfect way
> to lift his spirits. Jake persuades Nog to use his
> life savings to bid on the collection, but a man named
> Dr. Giger outbids them, taking the card and crushing
> Jake's hopes.
> 
> "Jake and Nog approach Dr. Giger with an offer to buy
> the card, but he refuses.
> 
> [...]
> 
> "After learning that Odo has no record of Giger being
> on the station, Jake and Nog spot Kai Winn on the
> Promemenade, talking with a man who bid against them
> at the auction. Jake assumes they kidnapped Giger and
> confronts Kai. This lands him and Nog in Sisko's
> office where, determined to keep the baseball card a
> secret, Jake tells his father they were drunk. Sisko
> confines them to quarters, but on their way they are
> suddenly transported to a Jem'Hadar interrogation
> room.
> 
> "Jake and Nog explain their quest to obtain the
> baseball card from Giger, who is being held captive,
> but Weyoun believes they are plotting against him.
> Desperate, Jake makes up a story about working for
> Starfleet Intelligence. The tale is so preposterous
> Weyoun decides he belives the first story. In fact, he
> is actually interested in Giger's work! Weyoun lets
> the boys take the baseball card, which, as Jake
> predicted, succeeds in improving his father's mood."
> 
> http://www.psiphi.org/DS9/ep/523.html
> 
> It's available on video ...
> 
> --- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Star Trek Deep Space 9 had an episode that was a
>>> parody of COL49 where the baseball card collection
>>> was a stand in for the stamp collection.
>> 
>> And OW! Consider me bitch-slapped silly!! Or are you
>> serious, God help us...
>