Name:
Year of birth : Place of birth: Education : Occupation : Race : Position: Status : |
Quark
2333 Ferenginar -- Owner Quark's Place Ferengi host/Entrepreneur Active duty |
***DS9 STATION RESIDENCE DATABASE FILE.
Quark,
one of the most influential of modern Ferengi thanks to his location at
DS9 when the Bajoran wormhole
was
discovered, owns Quark's Place on DS9's Promenade but hates being called
a "barkeep," preferring "host"
instead
as he fancies himself an empathetic dispenser of advice as well as a goodwill
ambassador and legitimate
entrepreneur
extrordinaire. He also caters formal affairs for the Starfleet crew and
named a new souffle creation
after
Kai Winn when the Bajor-Cardassian peace treaty was signed. In reality
he has the reputation of getting
anything
for a price - with the help of a network of sources who also help him keep
a hand in most illegal or illicit
trade
and deals going on around the station. He has even tried to force sex by
contract from the unwitting Dabo
girls
who work for him; an employee's error is made up from garnished pay. When
Odo calls him "disgusting,"
he
proudly boasts: "Til the day I die!" and says lying is a gift. But he does
sometime show remorse out of guilt
for
even his own actions, and relishes the thrill of gambling, even in business;
otherwise, he has said, the trade
comes
off as simple bartering.
His
only sibling is younger brother Rom, whom he often teased and tortured
as "lobeless": Quark even stole Rom's
naming
day presents from Keldar, replacing the gifts resold at a profit with old
vegetables. His father bought him his
first
copy of the Rules of Acquisition, but it was his mother who helped him
learn them - a repeated pattern whose
truth
he ignored until much later in life, feeling his father had been hounded
by his mother's rebellious independence.
In
2351, upon celebrating his Age of Ascension rites, he left home as soon
as possible despite his father's advice
to
stay close; doing so 10 years ahead of Rom, he missed out on Keldar's ongoing
business failures prior to his
death.
In his 20s, Quark apprenticed with a District Sub-Nagus until he slept
with the boss's sister and lost his
fast-track
standing. He later served on a Ferengi freighter for eight years, where
he learned some engineering and
transporter
skills while serving as its cook.
By
the 2360s he was running a black market from then-Terok Nor for the occupied
Bajorans and illegally sold food
to
them at cost, while earning his exclusive casino franchise by catering
to Gul Dukat and the occupying
Cardassians
with freebies. One Cardassian contact in particular was Glinn Boheeka.
By this time Rom and his
young
son Nog had moved to the station, and Quark has fondly recalled reading
the tyke basic Ferengi stories
Amid
the shambles of Cardassian withdrawal from newly renamed DS9 in 2369, his
plans to leave were changed
when
Starfleet commander Sisko threatened to jail his nephew Nog for a petty
theft if he left - along with
enticements
such as free rent, power and maintenance. It was a fateful change, leading
to contacts with Grand
Nagus
Zek and the Dominion. He even served a week as the Nagus and faced death
threats when Zek faked his
demise
to trick his unfaithful son.
The
next year, after having led a trade mission to contact the Karemma of the
Dominion, he became the first
Ferengi
to meet a Jem'Hadar and Vorta of the Dominion when captured with Sisko
on their Gamma Quadrant
vacation
eight months later. That led to Zek's request in 2371 that be aboard the
Defiant's first Dominion contact
mission.
Married temporarily to Klingon matriarch Grilka, he faces down her rival
D'Ghor before the Klingon High
Council
on Qo'noS to save her house after murdering her husband Kozak in self-defense
in the bar.
Quark
knows at least the worst of human history, and while he speaks out against
superior Terran attitudes he
can
be as racist as anyone. Quark saved his much-cherished Ferengi culture
from the Bajoran Prophets idealism
later
that year when he became only the third known non-Bajoran, after Sisko
and Zek, to experience an orb
vision
and single-handedly restored the Nagus to his previous state. Future cultural
decisions were not so clear-
cut,
though: he was secretly forced to allow his employees to unionize in 2372
despite Ferengi Commerce
Authority
intervention. He finally made up with his mother the year after revisiting
the homeworld for the first time
in
20 years when Ishka refused to renounce her feminist ways, endangering
Quark's livelihood of fines and support.
Aside
from his crushes on Dax and Kira, Quark had a surprising one-month fling
in 2363 with Cardassian journalist
Natima
Lang, the love of his life. She didn't turn him in for aiding Bajorans,
but felt betrayed and broke off the affair
when
he used her secret access codes to be paid for bogus goods - a much-regretted
act seven years later, when
she
turns up as a Cardassian dissident. Of odder course was his falling for
Pel, a feminist like his mother whom he
could
not commit to after her revelation as a female cost Quark a cut of all
the Grand Nagus' future Gamma
Quadrant
profits. Despite his tough stance, though, he has always been a sucker
for a pretty face of any species.
When
ho once chided O'Brien over his marriage troubles for not following the
submissive-female way of the Ferengi,
he
was evasive when asked why he's still single.
He
engages Odo in a running battle of wits, but while it gets vicious at times
there is mutual respect and even
affection
present. Despite his pride at escaping detection, he has been caught red-handed
in crime more than once
but
served only petty penalties. He still retains old Cardassian security clearances
through Level 7 - one higher than
Odo
- and knows enough about engineering to install a small cloaking device
in ships not normally made for them.
Lock-picking
of all kinds is another skill.
In
a battle of wits, a rival casino opened by Martus Mazur across the Promenade
almost sunk his bar in 2370 until
Quark
planned a Bashir-O'Brien racquetball rematch to get his customers back.
If he didn't know the sport by then,
he
learned it quickly enough to call the remote play-by-play. He also enjoys
the Ferengi game of Tongo, of course;
Dax
says he scratches his left ear just before Acquiring, a dead giveaway.
Security
File: Report of Odo, Security Chief
SD
49000
Quark,
the Ferengi barkeeper, is a self-important con artist who's nowhere near
as clever as he thinks he is. His
bar
is a center for scams and illegal dealings.
Quark
was a co-indicted in 2362 by the Romulans as the middleman with alien thief
Fallit Kot for hijacking a
Romulan
ale shipment, but testified against Kot and got off - barely escaping with
his life eight years later here at
DS9
when Kot was released.
He
allowed thieves of the Dax symbiont aboard DS9 and became an inadvertent
supplier of arms to the Maquis' first
attack.
Even my first encounter with Quark, in 2365 on then-Terok Nor,saw him backing
up Kira's alibi in the Vaatrik
murder
for a price. That is all.
Civilian
commendation by Capt. B. Sisko, CO DS9
SD
50100
I have
to hand it to Quark. The Federation's thanks go out to him once again for
acting as a trade rep to the
Dominion-fringe
Karemma, and even more so -- if I am to believe these reports -- for keeping
my ship intact when
he
single-handedly diffused an unexploded Jem'Hadar torpedo.
I just wish he would cut out that stunt with the station-wide advertisements in the comm systems and replicators.
Security
File: Report of Odo, Security Chief
SD
50080
This
is to note the recent cooperation of the Ferengi barkeeper in a successful
sting operation against the
Markalian
smuggling ring. That is all.
Security
File: Personal Note:
SD
---
Never
again will I take someone into custody without announced charges. I have
done so with Quark, of all people,
and
it nearly cost he and I both our lives. At least I have learned Quark is
not well-connected and wealthy enough to
join
the Orion Syndicate.
Psycho-Medical
File, Dr. Julian Bashir
SD
50500 Update
Quark
has seen the true heights and depths of life in the past few months. He
has stared down the cherished pre-
cepts
of his culture and come away less conservative after choosing between life
and breaking a Ferengi contract
with
none other than his old adversary, FCA Liquidator Brunt. An overpaid Ferengi
doctor's misdiagnosis of fatal
Dorek
syndrome was bad enough, but to have Brunt demand that Quark follow through
on their signed contract to
sell
his own desiccated remains, per Ferengi custom, was even worse. Despite
his onetime decision to hire Garak
to
kill him a fact I have received through confidential source and the subsequent
loss of his Ferengi business
license,
Quark has survived -- a bit stunned at the support the station has given
him in spite of the many stunts he's
pulled.
We must face it: Quark provides a valuable service and resource on the
station -- even if he still takes 30%
of
his workers' tips and manages their vacation fund himself.
One
the other hand, it's a good thing our resident Ferengi barkeep is a tough
little guy as well. Along with his varied
injuries
and near-fatal mishaps in just the past four years -- including, I suspect,
his actions which saved he and
Odo
on a Class-L ice planet -- are the bruises he picked up upon Grilka's return
to DS9 this year. Actually she
came
back looking for some romance, and I still can't believe Worf tutored him
to do it and survive, especially with
some
virtual reality combat device. I also can't believe his first trip to Risa
came with our group earlier this year --
though
I can believe he owns a first-edition copy of Vulcan Love Slave.