Buttadeus: Do they say that anywhere? Or is it just based on Eugene Cordero?

I feel like “darts” is the odd item out in this list of (presumably) Americana. In any case, a gentle reminder that the USA has hundreds of missiles carrying nuclear warheads ready to launch… …and that the President of the United States has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority.

I don't think Quark is naming American things, he's naming Earth things, and all he knows is stuff Bashir, Sisko, and O'Brien have shown him, which includes darts.

the (rather grim) implication of 60s-90s Trek is that the US was the big winner of the Eugenics/Third World War.

(Sulu is from San Francisco. Kim codes Asian-American very hard. Sato is from Japan. We don't see an Asian from Asia as a major character until I think Georgiou on Discovery? One or two South Asian characters.)

Forgot - Rutherford is Filipino! But it seems like something happened to mainland East and South Asia and it wasn't good.

Do they say that anywhere? Or is it just based on Eugene Cordero?

When he builds a hot rod, he calls it 'Sampaguita' - not outright confirmation, but certainly a tell.

not as much of a stretch as my opinion that Worf is all but intended to have grown up in a Litvak household, first on Gault and then on Earth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litvaks

Litvaks - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

a scene, years ago: Hanukkah was never really important in the Rozhenko household before today. "But you saw the boy's face when he read about the Maccabees!" Sergei whispers to his wife happily. Young Worf slept soundly that night - a warrior people indeed!

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