okie@ihuxi.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) (01/30/85)
Quark? Ah, yes, I remember it semi-well. I actually kind of sort of enjoyed the show myself. Who could forget the two beautiful cloned sisters and a first officer who is actually a plant and has to "pollenate" every once in a while? I also don't remember who wrote/directed/produced the show, but I remember that Richard Benjamin played Quark. Anybody else out there remember this? Can you answer these questions and add some more details of your own? B.K.Cobb ihnp4!ihuxi!okie
vljohnson@watrose.UUCP (Lee Johnson) (01/31/85)
I only saw the show a couple of times, but I remember the pollination sequence quite well. The first officer (the "Vegeton") and a woman (I don't remember, but she was probably a Vegeton, too) were lying on the floor, side by side, with their arms and legs sticking straight into the air. Both were making beeping or peeping noises. Really quite silly. Gee, and I almost thought the show was a figment of my imagination! Regards, Lee Johnson
dpa@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Allen) (01/31/85)
As I remember, Quark aired about 4 or five years ago and there were only 4 episodes. I enjoyed it while it lasted. Besides Quark, the captain, the second in command was the "plant" being whose name was something like Ficus which is a Latin work having to do with plants. I can't remember the twins names, but I believe they were clones. The other member of the crew was another alien who kept changing gender and was called Gene/Jean. Thier ship was an interplanetary garbage truck and they went around collecting space baggies. Can't seem to remember any of the plots. Probably just as well. -- Dave Allen ihuxo!dpa AT&T Bell Labs Rm: IH 4A-409 Tel:(312) 979-(4378)
schultz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Steven Schultz) (01/31/85)
I remember the guy who played the part of the plant wearing a pressure
guage in his ear to monitor his "turgor pressure." He was also caught
"pollenating" with the daughter of a visiting ship's captain (I think)
and she wound up getting blasted with a gun that changed her into a pillar
of stone (the fateful blast was aimed at the plant-man). It was a good
spoof.
Steve Schultz
bgsuvax!schultzted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) (02/02/85)
Ah, yes - Quark. One of the original postings was titled something like
"spoof or trash", well I'm afraid mostly trash (in more ways than one.)
The basic premise here was that Quark was the commander of an interstellar
garbage truck (ship), although I don't remember his ever making an actual
pickup. He worked out of a chaotic space station called PERMA 1, under
the supervision of Conrad Janis (of Mork & Mindy fame). The whole operation
was overseen by a (disembodied?) head called The Head.
Quark's crew consisted of two beautiful clones, a mostly emotionless humanoid
vegatable first officer and a hermaphordite (which meant not what you would
expect, but that he/she would spend half the time acting super macho and
half the time acting sterotypically gay). In some of the early episodes,
the science officer was a one eyed old man (he put out the other eye by
falling asleep at the microscope). Additionally, there was some sort of
uncontrolable alien pet on board.
Sound interesting? Well, maybe. However, every episode I saw (and they
seemed to be very irregularly scheduled) was horrible except for one.
When I say horrible, I mean in a technical sense as well as the writing,
acting and directing. The laugh track was the worse I can remember on
any show (and if you remember the laugh track of a show at all, that's a
bad sign).
What was the one good episode? It was a one hour special Star Wars parody.
Everyone else was unavaiable so The Head had to send Quark to save the
federation (or whatever it was). With Quark and his crew, the head also
sent an invisible, omnipresent and somewhate klutzy entity called
THE SOURCE. The bad guys were headquartered in a space station that looked
exactly like Darth Vader's mask. I don't know how they did it, but
somehow the jokes in this one were actually funny and the acting competent.
I remember it with great fondness, even though the laugh track did get out
of hand once (when the 2 bettys were denying that they knew each other).
I was hoping that maybe everyone involved had learned something, but when
I tuned in next episode --- same old awful trash.
Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted
SOURCE : Quick quark, follow me.
Quark : Right... Wait a minute, your're everywhere.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------zmh10@udenva.UUCP (zmh10) (02/26/85)
> As I remember, Quark aired about 4 or five years ago and there were > only 4 episodes. I enjoyed it while it lasted. Besides Quark, the > captain, the second in command was the "plant" being whose name was > something like Ficus which is a Latin work having to do with plants. > I can't remember the twins names, but I believe they were clones. > The other member of the crew was another alien who kept changing > gender and was called Gene/Jean. > > Thier ship was an interplanetary garbage truck and they went around > collecting space baggies. Can't seem to remember any of the plots. > Probably just as well. The clones were both named Betty. One plot involved Quark aging premat- urely, one involved the crew meeting their evil doubles, and so on, all spoofing various Star Trek episodes. I forget the robot's name, but he looked a lot like the one from Lost in Space. He often had personal crises and fell in love with other machines. Steven Howard. ex-Quark viewer. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***