[Kartographer]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8) (1998)

Quark: "Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes."

[GraceG]

I love that quote as it is so very true.

[lentulusgracchus]

Quark: "Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew ....:

I remember that quote very well. I don't even remember the rest of the episode, and I was a DS9 fan. But it was a remarkable statement coming out of Majel Roddenberry's shop, which had been so relentlessly liberal and "proggy" for what, 30 years?

If you also remember the confession of the notorious ex-governor Kolos, who was discovered aboard Captain Kirk's Enterprise, that episode also dealt with huomi savagery; but it was couched very differently, as "some people" (like the Nazis) "can act like that, at times." The 1998 statement is much more sweepingly ascriptive.