Episode Trivia

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This episode features the first ever mention of the Dominion. In addition, the Karemma are also mentioned (see "The Search".)
   
In the scene where Odo is talking to Rom in the bar, there are a couple of Pakleds sitting at the bar in the background.
   
Many Ferengi Rules of Acquisition quoted here:
#21: "Never place friendship above profit."
#22: "A wise man can hear profit in the wind."
#33: "It never hurts to suck up to the boss."
#48: "The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife."
#59: "Free advice is seldom cheap."
#62: "The riskier the road, the greater the profit."
#103: "Sleep can interfere with your lust for latinum."
   
Tulaberries are a native Gamma Quadrant fruit used to produce Tulaberry wine by both the Dosi and Karemma. The Dosi were incapable of producing 100,000 vats of the wine but claimed the Karemma may be capable of such an order.
   
The Ferengi have 285 Rules of Acquisition.
   
Odo's station rules include "No sleeping on the Promenade." Morn is guilty of this.
   
Jadzia has inherited Curzon Dax's panache for the Ferengi game of Tongo.
   
Ferengi women have smaller lobes than males.
   
Brizene Nitrate is a fertilizer badly needed on Bajor.