Business as Usual (DS9 episode)
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| Star Trek: DS9 episode | |
| "Business as Usual" | |
 Quark meets a weapons smuggler |
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| Episode no. | 116 |
|---|---|
| Prod. code | 516 |
| Airdate | April 7, 1997 |
| Writer(s) | Bradley Thompson David Weddle |
| Director | Siddig El Fadil |
| Guest star(s) | Lawrence Tierney as Regent Steven Berkoff as Hagath Josh Pais as Gaila Tim Halligan as Farrakk |
| Year | 2373 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "A Simple Investigation" |
| Next | "Ties of Blood and Water" |
"Business as Usual" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the eighteenth episode of the fifth season.
[edit] Plot summary
Quark and Jadzia Dax are playing Tongo in the bar, but the Ferengi's heart isn't in it. His debts are mounting and will soon have to sell his establishment. Quark's cousin Gaila enters the bar and offers to help him out of his predicament. Quark knows immediately what the enterprise is - selling weapons. Gaila tells him that no weapons will be brought to Deep Space Nine, as Odo would stop them. Instead, Quark will use his skills with customers to display holographic versions of the weapons in the holosuites. Gaila claims the money will help him pay off his debt, help renew his business license and would be able to buy his moon.
Soon Quark realizes his new clients will kill him if he messes up and also want to buy many weapons which will kill millions of innocent people.
Quark realizes he must find a way to escape with his life and not be part of a genocide program. On his own, too, for he has alienated all his friends on the station.
[edit] Trivia
- The characters make reference to a powerful Breen weapon called the 'CRM-114'. The CRM-114 is the nomenclature of the Strategic Air Command encryption/decryption device aboard the B-52 Stratofortress in the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove.
[edit] External links
- Business as Usual article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- Business as Usual article at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
