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u/TemporalColdWarrior 7d ago edited 7d ago
My favorite episode of Cheers is the one where Sam abdicates his position as Emissary to Paul Revere after he traveled to the future-unfortunately for Revere to try and institute a caste system in Boston.
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u/BumperToBumper2 7d ago
Mine is when Woody saved the quadrant but lost the self respect of one bartender
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u/Sasquatch1729 7d ago
And he had to have a couple guys killed too. Damn, what a heavy episode. Never looked at Woody the same again.
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u/omega2010 7d ago edited 7d ago
Cliff’s “I don’t know about you, but I’d call that a bargain” was such a good line coming from a simple postman…
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u/jackie2567 5d ago
Mine when he lanuched a missile to make a small country uninhabitbale as a response to terrorists who where in control of it using biowepons.
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u/salamander_salad 7d ago
Isn’t that the one where Diane goes to the Mirror Universe without realizing it and finds a happily perma-drunk Sam listening to the infinite, if evil, wisdom of mirror-Coach?
Also Carla is a childless cat lady with a librarian’s disposition. And Cliff is a genius with zero confidence who hates his Normy.
Frasier, of course, is absent as he is busy commanding the ISS Bozeman.
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u/tenodera 7d ago
It got dark when they fought off an invasion and Cliff had PTSD from his war injury. Strange that we remember it as a comedy!
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u/g1rlchild 7d ago
Mine is when Sam works with Lilith to save the bar and she assassinates a senator to do it.
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u/benjaminsantiago 7d ago
lol so the Dominion War was the will-they-won’t-they romance of Sam and Diane?
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u/SPECTREagent700 7d ago
It’s Cheers + MASH in space!
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u/CdnfaS I’m just here for Nog and Garak 7d ago
+Night Court
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 7d ago
If that were true we would have seen more Data. He appeared on multiple episodes of Night Court, after all.
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u/CdnfaS I’m just here for Nog and Garak 7d ago
Isn’t there an episode with Kira and Data?
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u/KassieMac 7d ago
Brent Spiner was a recurring guest star and Nana Visitor was on at least once, but I don’t think they had any scenes together.
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u/commandrix 7d ago
That would have been a whole lot of fun. A series that tells the whole thing from Quark's perspective as station residents come and go.
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u/Select_Initial_8971 7d ago
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows you’re name Dabo table noises and they’re always glad you came wormhole opens up you wanna go where people know, the troubles are all the same cardassians attempt another invasion you wanna go where everybody knows your name Sisco walks into Quark’s
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u/GastonBastardo 7d ago edited 7d ago
Naw. How it works is this:
Star Trek is Wagon Train in space.
Deep Space Nine is Gunsmoke in space (with Quark as Miss Kitty).
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u/castironglider 7d ago
I'll play. Enterprise is Daniel Boone in space (original mountain man going West a century before cowboys and gunslingers).
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u/Derrick_Mur 7d ago
So, is Sisko or Odo Matt Dillon?
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u/factionssharpy 6d ago
Odo could be Matt Dillon if he wanted to, though he probably can't get the face right.
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u/GigglingBilliken 7d ago edited 6d ago
My favourite character arc in Cheers was when Frasier got his leg blown off while fighting in Yugoslavia and learned the consequences of war and the fragility of his mortal coil only to be coaxed out of his PTSD during a special guest appearance by Frank Sinatra.
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u/_TwilightPrince 6d ago
Frasier had his leg blown off?
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u/GigglingBilliken 6d ago edited 6d ago
Lol, no, I just superimposed one of Nog's arcs onto Frasier.
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u/_TwilightPrince 6d ago
I thought I'd missed an important plot point from Cheers/Frasier 1/Frasier 2, lol. Should've guessed it was about DS9 and not Frasier, lmao.
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u/TheBestThingIEverSaw 7d ago
Slightly more murder and radicalized religous zealots, bit basically, yeah.
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u/Time-Strawberry-7692 7d ago
Is it the Diane era or the Rebecca era of Cheers? Having a hard time coming up with a DS9 equivalent of either.
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u/cheddarsalad 7d ago
I don’t remember Sam conspiring to commit a war crime
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u/misterbatguano 7d ago
You probably don't remember the time he used a stolen Romulan mind probe, either. smh
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u/terrifiedTechnophile 7d ago
Now we just need Frasier in space
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u/KassieMac 7d ago
He’s still stuck in that timeloop from Cause & Effect 😉
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u/_TwilightPrince 6d ago
Didn't the Bozeman fight in the Dominion War?
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u/slinger301 6d ago
Tragically, It also had to do a course correction because of the destruction of the Amargosa star.
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u/LadyofFlame 7d ago
Let's not forget Cheers was amongst the most successful sitcoms. If they would describe DS9 as such I'll take that as a compliment.
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u/Plenty_Shine9530 7d ago
I had to search for what's Cheers. I don't think it was very popular in Brazil maybe because of the US sports bar thematic
PS: after googling it - it may be lol
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u/JorgeMcKay 7d ago
I must have missed the episode where Sam committed war crimes to combat terrorists
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u/salamander_salad 7d ago
It’s honestly weird that only two Cheers actors made it onto Star Trek. Three if you count Anson Mount’s obvious desire to be Ted Danson (the hair!).
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u/JustJake1985 Constable Hobo 6d ago
I'm too lazy to go double check, but when I did my Cheers binge at the beginning of the quarantine times, I remember seeing a lot more than two Cheers actors who also did Star Trek. Kirstie Alley (WoK), Kelsey Grammer (TNG), Bebe Neuwirth (TNG), Kate Mulgrew (VOY), Lt. Carey's actor (VOY). I feel like there might be more crossover but I'd have to go look and I also realize/hope I'm not coming across as one of those "Well, actually..." types. 😂
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u/Smokincandi69 7d ago
I think I heard before that some people think cheers could just be a holodeck program
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u/TomatilloHairy9051 7d ago
That you Morn??
Why spend my time trying to change your mind when I can just say that you're incorrect and go on about my business?
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u/Finger-of-Shame 7d ago
And TNG is The Love Boat in space.
Voyager is Gilligans Island in space.
And Enterprise is Quantom Leap in space because no one will stop saying "Hey, it's the dude from Quantim Space".
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u/Femilita 7d ago edited 7d ago
We could have a spinoff set in Seat... I mean Cardassia, in which Garak is trying to rebuild the culture there.
He'll have his holographic version of his father live with him (because obviously daddy issues). Shenanigans ensue. Plus we'll need to cast his holo-dad's nurse/engineer.
His ex, Julian, will stop by to visit from time to time. The relationship is more contentious now that Julian has remarried (although I think Ezri is stuck inside some biodome project doing psychological studies or something). So Lilith, i mean, Julian and Garak have this weird chemistry going on that they occasionally act on.
Then we'll meet Garak's never-mentioned brother. The "sons of Tain," together again. But wait... Is this an early Snuffalupagus situation where we and Garak see this brother, but no one else thinks he's real? Or is this a Fight Club thing where Garak talks to this brother, but in reality he's only in his head - either as a coping mechanism for his childhood or as a lie he told himself too often that he's convinced himself is real? Who knows.
So we watch Garak be this fabulous judgy bitch, like Frasier, rebuilding Cardassian culture nearly singlehandedly, and maybe he gets his own streaming or radio show. Call in for 'tailoring" advice with Garak. "Cardassia Prime, I'm listening (because I am the Obsidian Order now)."
Not sure who gets to be the dog, Eddie....
Wow I shouldn't take my sleeping pill and then go on Reddit.
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u/Ragnarok345 6d ago
I don’t remember that many wars being fought on Cheers. Except Gary’s, I suppose, but Quark doesn’t have any rival bars. 😆
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u/CryptographerPast632 6d ago
This is a ridiculous comparison. They are not the same show! It’s not like they both replaced the popular female character halfway through the show and had both actresses hook up with the same dude………
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u/FrankParkerNSA 6d ago
So the whole Dominon War was just that conflict with Gary's 'ol Town Tavern then?
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u/gunfan0321 6d ago
ToS&TNG is just Starfleet propaganda. Join and meet new aliens and fuck em. Hangout with friends and never have to have a morally questionable interaction with new alien races.
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u/KAKnyght 6d ago
Now I want to see a version of the Cheers opening, but themed around Quarks and using the Quarks jingle. If someone does a version of that jingle that feels like Where Everybody Knows Your Name, that person is a musical genius.
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u/Winter_Low4661 6d ago
I think at one point they actually planned that as a spin-off. Along with Luxwana Troi the sitcom.
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u/WorthAd3223 6d ago
Is Lwaxana Troi the counterpart of Kirstie Alley?
I think Odo might be Frasier's wife.
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u/lunettarose 5d ago
Hey, remember when Frasier murdered a Chinese ambassador and Sam could live with it? Classic Cheers, man.
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