The Pearls That Were His Eye

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Quotation

"With only two parents and a handful of siblings, is it any wonder that humans are so obsessed with finding love?* Fragment of a Than-Thre-Kull anthropology text
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Season One
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1x10 - All Great Neptune's Ocean
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1x12 - The Mathematics of Tears

Episode 011 (1x11)

Synopsis

Beka Valentine receives an old distress call from her Uncle Sid, a former business partner of her father.

Continuity

This is the first time that Beka uses the nanobots in her hair to change its color.
The effects of Beka's flash addiction reappear in It Makes A Lovely Light (1x21)

References

Title

The Pearls That Were His Eye can be found in

William Shakespeare's "The Tempest":

[ARIEL sings]
"Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
[Burden: Ding-dong.]
Hark! now I hear them—ding-dong, bell." (Akt 1; Szene ii)

"The Wasteland" by T.S.Eliot

In the first part: "The Burial of the Dead":

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations. [...]

In the second part: "A Game of Chess"

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent
'What shall I do now? What shall I do?'
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
'What shall we ever do?'

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Trivia

Trance's "Watch the tail!" line was not part of the original script. It was, technically, a blooper, but it worked so well that they left it in. (Eldorado Drift)
John De Lancie played Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: DS9