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Quark'due south Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade

Quark's Bar redirects here; for additional meanings of "Quark'south Bar", please see Quark's Bar.

"All gambling on DS9 happens at Quark's or it doesn't happen."

Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming Firm and Holosuite Arcade, or Quark'south Bar and Property Company (ordinarily known simply as Quark'south), was a popular recreational facility located on the space station Deep Space ix.

one Overview
- i.ane Layout
- one.2 Behind the bar
- 1.3 Food and beverage
  - 1.three.one Known foods and beverages available at Quark's
- 1.4 Gaming
- 1.5 Holosuites
- 1.6 Staff
  - 1.half dozen.one Employees of Quark's
2 Patrons
- 2.1 Morn
- 2.2 Notable visitors
three History
- 3.1 Terok Nor
- 3.ii Federation control
- iii.3 Troubled waters
- 3.4 Gatherings and celebrations
- 3.5 The final outpost
4 Appendices
- four.1 Background data
  - 4.i.one Set
  - 4.1.2 Proper name
  - 4.i.iii Outside Star Expedition: Deep Space Ix
- iv.2 Apocrypha
- 4.3 External link

Overview

Looking down at the crowd from the second level

"Come up to Quark's, Quark'due south is fun, come right now, don't walk – run!"

- ad jingle, 2372 (listen here) ^file info (DS9: "The Quickening")

Quark's was the multi-level, vibrant and popular cardinal attraction of Deep Infinite 9's Promenade, drawing crowds of travelers and station inhabitants with its offerings of drink, food, gossip, gaming and fantasy fulfillment. The proprietor of the establishment was Quark, a Ferengi entrepreneur and sometimes petty criminal who was the eternal thorn in the side of the station's Principal of Security, Odo. Despite his alliances on the wrong side of the law, Quark was a capable and amiable host, and the bar was usually one of the most popular places for recreation on the station.

Business in Quark'south was conducted in gold pressed latinum. The bar sometimes featured live music, (DS9: "Emissary", "Sanctuary", "The Send") and occasionally offered cutting-price drinks during happy hour. (DS9: "Apocalypse Rise", "The Reckoning") The ambience dissonance level was typically 65 decibels; when Klingons were in the room, it could get as high as 85 decibels. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior") According to a very pocket-size sign above the main entrance, the establishment was not responsible for the loss of whatsoever personal items. (DS9: "The Forsaken") When Rom offered to buy the bar from Quark in 2375, Quark admitted that 5,000 bars of latinum (and not one slip more than) was a fair price for information technology. (DS9: "The Dogs of War") Every bit proprietor of the bar, Quark was a member of the Promenade Merchants' Association. (DS9: "Call to Arms")

When Quark and Rom left the station to visit Ferenginar in 2371, the main archway to the bar was locked using a tripartite microsealing mechanism devised past Rom, the most convoluted locking device Odo had ever seen. (DS9: "Family Business organization")

Layout

The establishment occupied a central position on the Promenade, extending over three stories with entrances on at to the lowest degree ii. Spiral staircases provided pedestrian access between the unlike levels, and the central portion of flooring of the second and third levels was cut out with railed balconies overlooking the levels beneath. According to the station'due south figurer, Quark'due south was located on Level 7, Section 5. (DS9: "Playing God")

Level 1 – The main entrance to Quark's was on Level 1, together with the bar, various gambling tables and a number of tables and chairs where customers could sit and enjoy their beverages. The main entrance, bar and gambling area were brightly lit, while lighting in the periphery was more subdued so equally to provide a degree of privacy for the business deals and covert exchanges that occurred in that location.

Levels 2 and 3 – The upper levels provided more tables and seating, and housed the holosuite arcade. In that location was also a second-level entrance from the Promenade.

Quark's seemed to be the only role of the Promenade that had a tertiary level, and little of information technology was ever seen on screen. It appeared to contain but a balcony and walkway.

The inside of Quark's was dominated by a large distinctive yellow and red landscape and decorative contumely poles that extended upwardly through the cut out department of all 3 levels. Part of the mural too served equally the bar's logo, and was sometimes displayed on information screens embedded into the walls of two large open up windows looking out over the Promenade on Level one.

A viewscreen placed in front of the mural in 2370

If necessary, a large viewscreen could exist placed in front of the mural then sporting events, like racquetball, could be observed past patrons in the bar. (DS9: "Rivals")

Quark'southward had a store room where stocks of drink and nutrient for the bar were kept. The door was secured with a pulsatel lockseal, and although staff were not supposed to enter without Quark's permission, Rom admitted in 2370 that he had managed to open the door without using the desealer on a number of occasions. There was also a latinum floor vault, in which takings from the 24-hour interval'south business concern were secured; Rom admitted having too cleaved into the floor vault while Quark was away, by using magnasite drops to dissolve through the duranium plating. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")

The locations of the store room and latinum floor vault in relation to the rest of the bar were not revealed. The inside of the store room, however, was seen in "The Dogs of State of war", when Quark went there to take an important call from Grand Nagus Zek.

Behind the bar

A large number of drinks and brightly colored drinking spectacles were stored backside the bar, forth with 2 replicators, a computer admission last, and a selection of isolinear rods containing programs for utilize in the holosuites upstairs.

Quark as well kept a number of (presumably stolen) security rods behind the bar, which he used to tap into secure information in the station's calculator; he had managed to acquire even college clearance level access than Odo. (DS9: "Civil Defense force")

Occasionally, a computer display backside the bar and directly above the drinks replicator would display the English word "QUARK'Southward". The discussion would scroll from left to right across the screen. A similar screen was sometimes seen on the wall to the left of the chief entrance on level 1. (DS9: "Resurrection")

Food and drink

A range of foods and beverages was served at Quark'south. Most of the food was replicated, while the drinks were either replicated or came fresh from bottles kept backside the bar. Quark likewise kept a individual stock of drinks, which included Maraltian Seev-ale and Aldebaran whiskey. (DS9: "Duet", "Prophet Motive")

When the replicators broke downwards in 2369, Quark managed to sustain his business organisation past breaking into a crew quarters and using the replicator there to produce food and potable for his customers. Unfortunately, the replicator had been booby-trapped to spread the Aphasia virus, and his efforts inadvertently atomic number 82 to the spread of the virus through the station's population. (DS9: "Boom-boom")

Quark was often hired to cater events and meetings on the station, specially in the wardroom, where he provided food and drinks together with a waiter service; he charged by the head for such events. (DS9: "The Antagonist", "Crossfire", "Business organisation as Usual") He also indulged in culinary experimentation from time to time, resulting in creations of varying success: Chief Miles O'Brien branded the short-lived "Quarktajino" (a decaffeinated version of famous Klingon coffee, raktajino) "poisonous substance", while the "Kai Winn" chocolate soufflé was very popular. (DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Stiff", "Life Back up")

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Known foods and beverages bachelor at Quark's

Foods:
- Altair sandwich
- Alterian chowder
- Azna
- Bacon
- Bajoran shrimp
- 'Kai Winn' chocolate soufflé
- Corned beef hash
- Couscous
- Eggs
- Fondue
- Gramilian sand peas
- Groatcakes
- Haligian natural language sauce
- Hasperat
- I'danian spice pudding
- Jumbo Romulan mollusks
- Jumbo Vulcan mollusks
- Kohlanese stew
- Linguine
- Lokar beans
- Lorvan crackers
- Mapa bread
- Puree of beetle
- Rhombolian butter
- Steak
- Syrup of squill
- Tube grubs
- Uttaberry crêpes
- Vak clover soup
- Yamok sauce
Beverages:
- Aldebaran whiskey
- Alvanian brandy
- Andolian brandy
- Andorian ale
- Bajoran ale
- Beer
- Black hole
- Bloodwine
- Brandy
- Breshtanti ale
- Cardassian ale
- Deka tea
- Eelwasser
- Enyak'south milk
- Fanalian toddy
- Gamzian wine
- Kanar
- Kandora champagne
- Karvino juice
- Kava juice
- Langour
- Maparian ale
- Maraltian Seev-ale
- Modela aperitif
- Prosecco
- Prune juice
- Quarktajino (discontinued)
- Raktajino
- Romulan ale
- Root beer
- Samarian dusk
- Saurian brandy
- Silken sunrise
- Silven surprise
- Slug-o-Cola
- Snail juice
- Springwine
- Stardrifter
- Starduster
- Supernova
- Synthale
- Synthehol
- Takarian mead
- Til'amin froth
- Tranya
- Trixian bubble juice
- Voodai
- Vulcan port
- Warp cadre breach
- Whelan Bitters
- Yridian ale

Because Quark's was fitted with replicators, it could be causeless that most foods or beverages that could exist ordered at any other replicator on the station could also be ordered at Quark's.

Gaming

Dabo: a popular (and financially unsafe) game of take a chance and skill

Quark's too operated every bit a casino, which accepted both gold-pressed latinum and gambling tokens as gaming tender; in rare occasions, Quark was known to issue credit vouchers. (TNG: "Firstborn"; DS9: "Defiant")

A number of gaming tables were located on Level one, the most prominent of which was dabo. The spinning of the dabo wheel and cries of "Dabo!" were familiar background noises in Quark's. In 2373, an conflicting visitor was caught manipulating the dabo wheel using a graviton emitter hidden in a ring on his hand to allow his associate to win the game. (DS9: "A Simple Investigation")

Games of tongo were occasionally played, (DS9: "Top", "Business as Usual", "Change of Heart", "Rules of Conquering") and a dartboard was installed at the insistence of Miles O'Brien. (DS9: "Visionary") Other alien games were also brought to the bar from time to time, like chula (DS9: "Move Forth Habitation"), and Quark was warned on several occasions against attempting to stage illegal Cardassian vole fights. (DS9: "Visionary", "Through the Looking Drinking glass") Dabo girl Leeta suggested in 2373 that if she was in accuse, Quark's would have three dom-jot tables and ii Prayko alleys. (DS9: "Doc Bashir, I Presume")

Quark regularly ran betting pools, including taking bets on a fight between Benjamin Sisko and Q, (DS9: "Q-Less") springball and darts matches between Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien, (DS9: "Rivals", "Shakaar") the outcomes of Odo's security investigations, (DS9: "Crossfire") the time of render of Worf and Ezri Dax to the station afterward they were kidnapped past the Breen, (DS9: "The Changing Face up of Evil") and Bajoran elections for the new Kai. When she took control of the station in 2375, Colonel Kira Nerys made all betting pools illegal. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")

Holosuites

The upper levels of Quark'due south housed an arcade of at least six holosuites since 2363. (DS9: "Profit and Loss", "Dramatis Personae") Credit for use of the holosuites could exist purchased at the bar, as could a number of enticing holographic programs.

The holosuites were ofttimes used by visitors to Quark's for programs of an developed (sensual, and fifty-fifty sexual) nature, while residents of the station and members of its crew used them for more benign recreations. Main Miles O'Brien regularly went kayaking in the holosuites (sometimes accompanied by Odo), (DS9: "Heart of Stone" et al.) while Medico Julian Bashir enjoyed playing the atomic number 82 in a series of holonovels about a British secret agent. (DS9: "Our Man Bashir", et al.) O'Brien and Bashir eventually combined their love of holoprograms and spent hours together in the holosuites recreating old Earth battles such as the Boxing of Britain and the Boxing of the Alamo. (DS9: "Homefront", "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Nighttime", et al.) In an effort to do Major Kira'due south under-adult imagination, Jadzia Dax took her to the holosuites several times, where they recreated the Hoobishan Baths on Trill and Camelot from Earth mythology. Worf and Jadzia shared a number of Klingon exercise programs and historical recreations. (DS9: "The Fashion of the Warrior", et al.) Program Bashir 62, Vic'southward lounge featuring Vic Fontaine, was very pop with the station'southward control coiffure throughout belatedly 2374 and 2375. (DS9: "His Way", et al.) In 2369, a murder took place in holosuite 4, the murder of Ibudan. (DS9: "A Man Alone") Kor oftentimes visited the holosuite to play the Boxing of Klach D'kel Brakt, a battle in which he had been victorious over the Romulans in 2271. 1 time, Kor was playing this battle but Odo arrested him for being drunk in public, and he and Quark sent him off to the boozer tank to sleep it off. (DS9: "Claret Oath")

For a full list of holosuite programs used on Deep Space 9, meet holographic programs.

Quark claimed that the only person on the station who could keep his holosuites in working order was his brother Rom. Considering Quark did not let him to buy new components, Rom found it necessary to patch the holosuites' circuitry using components salvaged from all over the station, including such diverse items every bit cooking utensils and Starfleet LCARS interface panels. Rom's expertise with the holosuites turned out to exist instrumental in the rescue of the senior coiffure in 2372, after their transporter patterns were dumped into 1 of Bashir'southward secret agent programs. (DS9: "Our Human Bashir") After Rom left Quark's utilise and started to piece of work on the station'southward engineering science crew, maintenance of the holosuites suffered due to Rom'southward decorated schedule. Captain Sisko was injured by a plasma flare-up in ane of the holosuites in 2373, due to its poor country of repair. (DS9: "Rapture")

Staff

The staff of Quark's fell into 2 groups: waiters and dabo girls. The waiters were by and large Ferengi, while the dabo girls were hired mainly for their alluring physical appearance, useful in distracting punters at the dabo bike.

Quark believed in Rule of Acquisition #211 – "Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them". The staff of Quark's were strictly forbidden to leave the premises during working hours, and were given no ill days, no vacations, and no paid overtime. (DS9: "Bar Clan") The dabo girls were required to give Quark twenty percent of their tips, and he as well expected sexual favors from them. (DS9: "The Dogs of War", "Profit and Lace")

The staff became so disgruntled with the way they were treated that in 2372, under the leadership of Rom, they broke Ferengi law and formed a matrimony to demand ameliorate employment terms. The union, known equally the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees, staged a strike, forcing Quark to replace the staff with temperamental holographic waiters. The marriage was disbanded afterward Quark eventually agreed to meet their demands. (DS9: "Bar Association")

Employees of Quark's

Meet: Quark's personnel

Rom worked as a waiter and also occasionally as a pit boss on the gambling tables. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Manager of Policy and Clientele in mid-2369, and after left Quark's to join the station'south engineering coiffure following the strike action of 2372. He returned to this position in 2373 after the Rule took command of the station post-obit the Second Battle of Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Emissary", "The Nagus", "Bar Association", "Call to Artillery") Nog worked as a waiter simply left in early 2372 to attend Starfleet University, determined to make a meliorate life for himself. (DS9: "Eye of Rock", "Trivial Green Men") Rom and dabo girl Leeta grew attracted to one some other and eventually married. (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", "Call to Arms")

Waiter Broik and dabo girl G'Pella were oftentimes seen during the seven-year run of Deep Space Nine, simply were never credited nor given lines until "The Dogs of War", the show'south penultimate episode and the terminal one to prominently feature the Ferengi ensemble and the bar.

In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Quark hired a former Orion slave girl, Treir ( β ), to replace Leeta as his new dabo daughter. Treir later hired the bar'southward first dabo boy: Hetik ( β ), a Bajoran male.

Patrons

Morning

A tribute to Morn, the best customer Quark'southward e'er had

"When Morn leaves, it's all over."

- unofficial Dominion of Acquisition #286, suggested past Quark in 2371 (DS9: "The House of Quark")

Of all the visitors and customers ever to patronize Quark's, one stood (or rather, sat) proudly as the most loyal, most pop, and biggest spender of them all – resident barfly Morn. He was almost e'er to be found perched at the bar and became such a mascot of Quark's that when he left on business in 2374, Quark was forced to install a holographic version of him to keep the other customers happy. Morn paid his bar beak at the end of every month, which – according to Quark – was a substantial amount of money. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Forenoon?")

It was a recurring joke in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that while many of the customers of Quark'southward would mutter about Morn beingness an insatiable chatterbox, he was never seen or heard to utter a discussion on screen.

Morn faked his own death in 2374 equally part of a scam to rid himself of a number of unsavory claimants to his estate, namely his accomplices from the Lissepian Female parent's Twenty-four hours Heist. Quark was unwittingly drawn into the ruse, and a memorial service was held in Quark's to which many of the station's inhabitants brought gifts for the departed, a Lurian tradition. In an endeavour to compensate for the loss of the bar'south mascot, Quark started the tradition of "keeping Morn'south seat warm", in which customers were urged to ensure that Morn's favorite bar stool was never unoccupied. Forenoon later returned to the bar after Quark, at considerable peril, managed to escape the clutches of Morn'south assembly and they were arrested. (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?")

The kickoff person to keep Forenoon'due south seat warm was played by Marking Allen Shepherd, the actor ordinarily inside Morn's extensive make-up.

In an alternate future created when Benjamin Sisko was killed aboard the USS Defiant in 2372, Quark eventually left Deep Space 9 and Morning time took over the bar, which was rechristened "Morn'due south". This timeline was erased from existence by the actions of the hereafter Jake Sisko. (DS9: "The Visitor")

Notable visitors

Notable visitors to Quark'due south included:

Harry Kim and Tom Paris – crew members of the USS Voyager visited Quark's in 2371 while the starship was docked at the station shortly before its disappearance in the Badlands. Kim almost vicious victim to Quark's persuasive sales technique, but was rescued by Paris. (VOY: "Caretaker")

Kor, Koloth and Kang – three of the Klingon Empire'due south well-nigh notable warriors came to Quark's in 2370 to rendezvous with their old friend Dax and carry out a sworn blood oath. (DS9: "Claret Oath") Kor returned on two further occasions, and liked to recreate legendary Klingon battles in the holosuites. (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless", "Once more Unto the Breach")

Lewis Zimmerman – the famed holo-developer visited Deep Space 9 in 2373 in order to utilise Medico Julian Bashir as the template for a Long-term Medical Holographic program. While visiting Quark'southward, he became enamored with Leeta and afterward asked her to return with him to Jupiter Station. (DS9: "Physician Bashir, I Presume")

Lwaxana Troi – the Betazoid ambassador first visited Quark'south equally part of a delegation of Federation Ambassadors in 2369. While there, her latinum hair brooch was stolen past a Dopterian; Odo intervened, and Lwaxana became infatuated with him. The pair later became close friends, and in 2372 they married equally part of a programme to costless Lwaxana's unborn child from the clutches of its Tavnian begetter; Quark threw a party in the bar for the happy couple and their nuptials guests. (DS9: "The Forsaken", "The Muse")

Natima Lang – the noted professor, one-time flame of Quark's and member of the Cardassian Underground visited the bar in 2370 with several of her students while on the run from the Central Command. (DS9: "Profit and Loss")

Nilva – the Ferengi Commerce Say-so commissioner and Slug-o-Cola chairman dined with Quark in the bar in 2374. Quark was posing as a female, Lumba, at the time, office of a plan to help temporarily deposed Grand Nagus Zek regain his position. (DS9: "Profit and Lace")

Rionoj – a Boslic freighter captain and notorious smuggler, whose feminine wiles and questionable goods got Quark into problem on several occasions. (DS9: "The Homecoming", "The Abandoned")

Tosk – Deep Space ix's first visitor from the Gamma Quadrant spent some fourth dimension in Quark's with Miles O'Brien, where he found Alpha Quadrant species' behavior puzzling. (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")

Vash and Q – the dubious archaeologist partnered with Quark to auction a collection of exotic artifacts brought back from her travels in the Gamma Quadrant when she returned through the wormhole in 2369. She was trailed past Q, who staged some of his usual tricks in the bar and then outbid Quark'due south clients at the auction. (DS9: "Q-Less")

William and Thomas Riker – Will Riker visited Quark's in 2370. He spent a couple of hours there, and was loaned three strips of latinum past Jadzia Dax when his winning streak at the dabo wheel ended; by the fourth dimension he left he had all of Quark'southward latinum and a engagement with one of the dabo girls. Unable to pay Riker'south dabo winnings, Quark gave him instead credit vouchers redeemable only at his establishment. This event was recalled past Thomas Riker, posing equally Will, when he visited Deep Space 9 in 2371. Thomas met Kira Nerys in Quark'southward during his visit. (DS9: "Defiant", TNG: "Firstborn")

Zek – the Ferengi G Nagus visited Quark's on a number of occasions, virtually notably in 2369 when he pretended to name Quark as his successor, again in 2374 during his temporary disposition equally Nagus, and in 2375 when he returned to the bar again to name his successor (this time for real, and this time information technology was Rom). (DS9: "The Nagus", "Profit and Lace", "The Dogs of War")

History

Terok Nor

A nighttime and smoggy Quark'south during the Cardassian Occupation

The heavily-damaged Promenade following the Cardassian withdrawal in 2369

Although a vibrant, happy and colorful place during Starfleet'southward tenure on the station, the atmosphere in Quark'south wasn't always so affable and lighthearted. Quark opened (or assumed ownership of) the bar some time prior to 2363, during the latter years of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor, when the station was nether Cardassian command and was known as "Terok Nor". Under the command of Gul Dukat, the station operated every bit a refinery for uridium ore, and was populated by Bajorans enslaved in the ore processing center and their arrogant Cardassian overseers. While the Bajorans existed in squalor in a ghetto zone on the Promenade, the Cardassian soldiers laughed, gambled, drank and lauded it up in the bar and holosuites at Quark'due south.

When another bar and gaming facility, Club Martus, opened in 2370, Quark claimed to have had an agreement with the Cardassians stating that all gambling on the station was to take place at Quark's. Commander Sisko, station commander, did non recognize such a monopolistic agreement, stating that a few bribes to the Cardassians did not constitute an agreement. (DS9: "Rivals")

While the station was nether Cardassian supervision, Quark did what he could to earn a turn a profit, only was not blind to the plight of those around him. He sometimes hired Bajorans to perform menial tasks for a few slips of latinum, and sold black market goods to those who could pay. He was known to put a trivial extra into nutrient parcels, and was even described by Vaatrik Pallra (a Bajoran woman who lived on Terok Nor) as kind.

One-time adversaries Quark and Odo outset met in Quark's in 2365. (DS9: "Emissary") Odo questioned Quark most an alibi that he had been paid to provide past Kira Nerys, who was at that time role of the Bajoran Resistance. After failing to tempt Odo into buying a drink or spending some time in the holosuites, Quark – realizing that this was the shapeshifter he had heard nigh from the Cardassians – tried to convince the Constable to perform the Cardassian neck play tricks for the amusement of the bar's patrons. (DS9: "Necessary Evil", "Profit and Loss", "Things By")

Following an blow in 2373, Sisko, Odo, Garak and Dax were drawn into a telepathically mediated version of the Great Link, in which they relived events from Odo's memory of life on Terok Nor in 2366. In the shared vision, Sisko, Odo and Garak spent a day working as low-paid Bajoran cleaners in Quark'south. (DS9: "Things Past")

In 2369, the Cardassians withdrew from Bajor and Terok Nor was ransacked, stripped of anything valuable, and then abandoned. Iv Promenade merchants were killed during the carnage and, fearful that the modify in government on the planet beneath would put them in danger, Quark and his staff packed up their belongings and prepared to leave. (DS9: "Emissary")

Federation control

"How could I possibly operate my establishment nether Starfleet rules of conduct?"

In the aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal, the Bajoran Provisional Government invited Starfleet to have over administration of the station. Badly in need of a way to bind the station'south remaining inhabitants together and transform it from a place of suffering and slavery into one of peace and prosperity, new station commander Benjamin Sisko persuaded Quark to stay and re-open the bar, effectively becoming a customs leader. Sisko had Nog in custody at the fourth dimension for looting on the damaged Promenade, and used the Ferengi tradition of plea bargaining to negotiate co-functioning from Quark in exchange for Nog's release. Quark's duly re-opened and shortly filled the Promenade with the sound of laughter and music; the newly christened "Deep Space 9" had institute its heart. (DS9: "Emissary")

The bar and its proprietor soon became accustomed to life under Starfleet governance, though Quark did sometimes effort to bend the rules. In 2372, he used an encryption program to bypass the admission protocols on the station'south computer monitors so that he could use them to display animated advertisements for the bar, and at the same time he also reprogrammed the replicators on the USS Defiant to produce beverages in "Quark's"-themed mugs, much to Lieutenant Commander Worf'southward vexation. (DS9: "The Quickening")

A replicated mug with Quark's advertisement

The lease on Quark'due south was held by the Federation, but they did not accuse Quark whatever rent, nor did they ask him to reimburse them for the cost of maintenance or the drain on the station's power supply. During the strike organized by Rom'due south Guild of Eating house and Casino Employees in 2372, Helm Sisko threatened to bill Quark for five years' worth of these outstanding charges unless he agreed to talk to his brother and hammer out an agreement. (DS9: "Bar Association")

Despite the occasional run-ins with authority, Quark'south was an integral and successful office of Deep Space 9. Quark himself even celebrated when Bajor'due south petition to join the Federation was accepted in 2373, and a commemoration was held in the bar. Quark expected Bajor's admittance to the Federation to be good for business, predicting sales of root beer to increase fivefold and the bar to exist "busier than an Alvanian beehive." (DS9: "Rapture")

Troubled waters

"Start information technology was the Cardassians. So it was the Dominion. Now it's the Klingons! How'south a Ferengi supposed to make an honest living in a place similar this?!"

- Quark, 2372 (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")

Navigating the waters of the Great Material Continuum tin can be hard, and Quark'south went through its share of turbulent times.

Concern was disrupted by occasional infestations of voles and tribbles, and by the demand for the station'southward engineering coiffure to make repairs. (DS9: "Ferengi Beloved Songs", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River") More than serious disruptions were experienced in 2370 during mass evacuations triggered by a siege by the Bajoran Brotherhood for Global Unity and later on a violent plasma storm (DS9: "The Siege", "Invasive Procedures"), and in 2372 when the station was attacked by Klingon forces. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")

A rival gambling establishment, Club Martus, was opened past El-Aurian Martus Mazur in 2370, causing Quark's to lose a good number of its customers; Rom even defected to work in the new club. However, the club was shut downward when alien gambling devices existence used at that place wreaked havoc on the station. Subsequently Mazur was arrested for swindling an elderly couple, Quark agreed to pay his bail on status that he leave the station and never render. (DS9: "Rivals")

The Bajoran Time of Cleansing, a month-long ritual of avoidance from worldly pleasures practiced by the Bajoran people, was a especially hard time at Quark's. In 2372, the strain on the bar'southward profits was and so bully that Quark decided to cut the staff's pay. This deed triggered the germination of the Guild of Eating house and Casino Employees, and the ensuing strike caused havoc for Quark (for more information see Staff, above).

The bar, stripped and empty, afterwards liquidation by the FCA

In tardily 2372, Quark broke a contract with Liquidator Brunt and in the process violated Ferengi constabulary. In response, the Ferengi Commerce Authority revoked Quark'southward Ferengi business license, seized all of his assets, and stripped the bar blank. On the brink of ruin, Quark was rescued by the one thing the FCA couldn't accept away from him – his friends on the station. Dax, Bashir, Sisko, Morning time and fifty-fifty Odo donated and loaned glasses, drinks and piece of furniture so that the bar could exist reopened. (DS9: "Body Parts")

Quark was evidently able to use the donations of his friends to rekindle enough business to obtain exact replacements of all of the furniture, fixtures and fittings that had been removed by the FCA, as the bar had returned to its familiar advent by the adjacent fourth dimension it was seen (in season 5'southward "Apocalypse Rising").

Business organisation continued, though Quark was banned from trading or working with any other Ferengi. The waiters were replaced by members of other species including Bolians and Yridians, and FCA notices were displayed past the main archway to inform all visitors of the ban. (DS9: "Apocalypse Ascension", et al.) After months of hard trading under the ban, and when most every asset he possessed had been wiped out, Quark began to work with a weapons dealer named Hagath at the suggestion of his cousin Gaila. Quark displayed holographic recreations of weapons in the bar's holosuites and entertained Hagath's clients, earning enough latinum to repay all of his debts. Nonetheless, business concern in the bar suffered terribly as Quark's customers learnt of what he was doing. Swayed by his conscience, Quark somewhen betrayed Hagath and stepped out of the arms business, afterward which custom at the bar began to return to normal. (DS9: "Business concern as Usual") Quark'south Ferengi business license was eventually reinstated in late 2373, after he assisted Burden in a scheme to go on his female parent, Ishka, abroad from Yard Nagus Zek. (DS9: "Ferengi Beloved Songs")

During the Second Battle of Deep Space 9 at the end of 2373, Starfleet withdrew from the station and it was abandoned to the Rule. (DS9: "Call to Arms") The station reverted to its Cardassian designation of Terok Nor and remained under Cardassian-Dominion occupation for effectually 5 months. Although Quark's was stripped of root beer and stocked up with yamok sauce and kanar, it remained open up and was relatively unaffected by the change in administration. Rom returned to his role of Assistant Director of Policy and Clientele as a comprehend while he committed acts of sabotage confronting the Dominion. Damar became a regular customer at the bar, and Quark plied him with kanar and and so passed information, which he let slip while drunk, to a resistance movement formed by Kira Nerys. The bar was heavily damaged during a massive brawl between Cardassian and Jem'Hadar soldiers, triggered by the machinations of the resistance. Starfleet eventually took back the station in 2374, and erstwhile regulars Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir booked a holosuite almost the minute they set foot back on the station. (DS9: "A Time to Stand"–"Sacrifice of Angels")

Gatherings and celebrations

Quark's busy for Worf and Jadzia's wedding

"We are not getting married in this bar!"

- Worf, overruled, 2374 (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited")

Quark's hosted a number of gatherings over the years. In 2369, the bar was closed temporarily while it played host to an extradition hearing for Jadzia Dax afterward the Dax symbiont was accused of murder; Quark was coerced into surrendering the bar past Odo, who threatened to enforce Bajoran regulations that would hateful moving a wall by five meters, closing the holosuites and moving the bar counter unless Quark complied. (DS9: "Dax") Later the same year, a funeral service was held for Zek in the bar after the Nagus faked his own decease; similarly, a memorial service was likewise held in the bar after Morn faked his own death in 2374. (DS9: "The Nagus", "Who Mourns for Morning time?") Several auctions were held in Quark'south, (DS9: "Q-Less", "In the Cards") and Nog sold his boyhood treasures there prior to his deviation for Starfleet Academy in 2372. (DS9: "Petty Green Men")

Quark threw a party in the bar for Odo and Lwaxana Troi following their spousal relationship of convenience in 2372, (DS9: "The Muse") and a celebratory gathering post-obit the acceptance of Bajor's petition to join the Federation in 2373. (DS9: "Rapture") Worf's bachelor party was staged in the holosuites over four days in 2374, followed by the wedding anniversary of Worf and Jadzia in the bar below. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited") Impromptu baseball game team the Niners historic in Quark's following their match against the Logicians in 2375, (DS9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite") and later that year a party to marker the end of the war and bid bye to several of the senior staff was held in Vic's lounge in the holosuites. (DS9: "What You lot Go out Backside")

The last outpost

"The line has to exist drawn here. This far, and no farther!"

- Quark, 2375 (DS9: "The Dogs of War")

During the time that Quark spent tending the bar, change was rife on Ferenginar. Nether the direction of Ishka, Grand Nagus Zek instituted a raft of reforms that inverse Ferengi society, including progressive income tax, wage subsidies for the poor, retirement benefits for the aged, labor rights, wellness care, rights for females, the outlawing of monopolies, tough environmental regulations, and a Congress of Economic Advisors with about equal ability to the Nagus. Quark was horrified to learn of the changes, and when he mistakenly believed that Zek planned to proper name him the next Nagus in 2375 he decided to turn downwardly the job. When it turned out that Zek would actually exist succeeded by Rom, Quark declared that his blood brother was the perfect Nagus for this new Ferenginar.

Although it was his own family that had instigated (and presided over) the decease of the Ferenginar Quark had known and loved, he refused to play any function in it. Ordering M'Pella to rig the Dabo table and Broik to water down the drinks, Quark proclaimed that his bar would be the last outpost of what fabricated Ferenginar great – the unrelenting lust for profit. (DS9: "The Dogs of War")

By 2381, Quark's had become a franchise, with confined on Qualor Ii and Starbase 25. Some other Quark'south franchise was located in Stardust Metropolis in 2399. (LD: "Nosotros'll Always Take Tom Paris", "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers"; Moving picture: "Stardust City Rag")

Quark's Bars

Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade (Deep Space nine)
Quark's Bar (Qualor II) • Quark'south Bar (Starbase 25) • Quark's Bar (Stardust City)
Quark'south (Terok Nor; mirror universe)

Appendices

Background information

Set

The unfinished Promenade of Season 1, with no second-level entrance to Quark'due south

Quark's was the multi-level centerpiece of the massive Promenade prepare on Paramount Phase 17, a permanent set up that occupied the entire audio stage for all seven years of filming for Star Expedition: Deep Space Nine. In the series production "bible" written by executive producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller during development of the series in 1992, Quark's was described every bit follows: "The interstellar place to meet and drink. A dramatic three-story fix featuring exotic beverages from around the milky way, "honest" gambling, and the infamous sexual holosuites upstairs." The holosuites became so "infamous", in fact, that publicists for the show – concerned most Star Trek's reputation – clamped down on the practise of referring to them as "sexual", instructing writers for the series non to do so. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ^{[page number? • edit]} )

David Livingston explained that the set for Quark's was very different to the 10 Forrard set. "It's a lot more complicated and difficult to shoot in," he said. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 25)

The second-level entrance to Quark's was not seen during the show's beginning season, as it had yet to exist built. That side of the Promenade set's upper level was not finished until the hiatus between the first and 2nd seasons, during which the production team added extra width to the upper level walkways and created the 2d level entrance to Quark's where previously there had been simply a bare gray wall. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 73)) The change was first apparent in the 2nd season episode "Rules of Conquering", in a scene in which G Nagus Zek sabbatum at a table near the 2nd level entrance in a position where, in the first season, in that location had not even been a floor. The bare unfinished wall tin be seen on screen in several first season episodes, nearly prominently in "Babel" and "If Wishes Were Horses".

The replicators behind the bar were not nowadays in the first few episodes of Season one, making their start appearance in "Boom-boom" – an episode whose storyline specifically required them. They remained in identify for the balance of the series' run, except for when the set was redressed for the Terok Nor flashback sequences of "Necessary Evil" when the replicators were removed and the characteristic mural was replaced with a blackness banner bearing the symbol of the Cardassian Union. For the Terok Nor sequences of "Things Past", the mural was again replaced with the black banner and Cardassian Union symbol merely the replicators were left in place.

The prepare was redressed for its appearances in the mirror universe episodes "Crossover" and "Shattered Mirror". On these occasions, the shelves behind the bar were backlit in light-green and blood-red instead of the usual white and the mural was replaced with a black imprint begetting the symbol of the mirror universe Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.

Star Trek archivist Penny Juday examined some of the props used in Quark's in a special feature entitled "Secrets of Quark's Bar" on the DS9 Season one DVD, including the regularly seen foursquare glasses, which were really candle holders turned upside-down.

The terminal dialogue of the serial, in finale "What Yous Exit Behind", was spoken by Quark to Morning time at the bar, before the closing sequence panning out from the upper level of the Promenade through 1 of the windows into space.

Name

Quark's was referred to as "Quark'south Place" in early development and pre-production material, including in the internal series production "bible". (The Making of Star Expedition: Deep Infinite 9 ^{[page number? • edit]} ) On the Promenade directory set decoration, information technology was listed as "Quark's Bar". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 13)) However, information technology was referred to consistently in the scripts just as "Quark'due south", (Star Expedition: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library) and this exercise was maintained in spoken dialogue on screen. The total championship was originally "Quark's Bar and Holding Company", referred to as such in "Bar Clan", simply by "Profit and Lace" the full title was, as spoken by Quark, "Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade".

A scene in the script but not in the final episode of "The Sound of Her Vox" had a frustrated Quark musing that he should rename the bar "Cursed Quark's".

Exterior Star Expedition: Deep Space Nine

Quark's, rendered for the video game *Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - The Fallen*

As well as regular appearances in Deep Space Ix novels and fan fiction, the bar was seen in the pilot episode of Star Expedition: Voyager, "Caretaker", along with cameo appearances by Armin Shimerman as Quark, Mark Allen Shepherd as Morning time, and David B. Levinson as the waiter Broik.

The Promenade and Quark's were rendered as a detailed, fully three-dimensional surround for the video game Star Trek: Deep Infinite 9 - The Fallen, with the player gratis to run around the get-go and 2d levels of Quark's and the rest of the Promenade every bit seen on the Tv serial. Quark was present and could be interacted with (voiced by Armin Shimerman himself), and Rom (in his Bajoran engineering science crew uniform) and Morn could also be seen (both not-interactive).

Quark's besides provided a natural template for the bar and restaurant at Star Expedition: The Feel at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The restaurant was known as "Quark'south Bar and Restaurant" and served several dishes and drinks named afterward those mentioned on the series before it airtight in September of 2008, including the steaming fishbowl-similar "warp core breach".

Apocrypha

In the Deep Space 9 relaunch novels, Quark faced ruin and the loss of the bar as Bajor prepared to join the Federation and its moneyless gild. Rom, equally Thou Nagus, opened diplomatic relations betwixt Ferenginar and Bajor and made Quark'south the Ferengi embassy. Since this made Quark'south technically Ferengi – rather than Federation – territory, Quark was able to proceed his bar running and go on to charge latinum for the services it provided (although Rom naturally avoided giving Quark diplomatic immunity to ensure that he wouldn't get too far). Later the station is destroyed in Plagues of Night, Quark briefly opens a new establishment on Bajor until the new station is synthetic, leaving the Bajoran bar in the easily of a sometime Dabo girl while relocating to the new DS9, the new bar opening a few days before the official opening of the station.

The Deep Infinite Nine novel trilogy Millennium revealed that the big mural in Quark'south was installed by Gul Dukat during his time as prefect of Terok Nor during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. Dukat was under the impression that it was a painting of a Tholian admiral, but co-ordinate to Rom it actually depicted a Tellarite phallus. Quark and Rom jokingly toasted the landscape and addressed it every bit "admiral".

Quark's can be visited in the game Star Trek Online, complete with a Dabo table (with a holographic Leeta equally the Dabo girl, a product of Quark Enterprises) where players tin can earn latinum to buy cosmetic holographic emitters for both themselves and their ships. The bar was run by a Ferengi named Hadron until the "Victory is Life" expansion released in June 2018, at which point Quark himself returns to the bar. By this time incredibly wealthy and owning his ain moon (much like his cousin Gaila had), Quark mentions maybe opening a franchise, with "a Quark'southward in every quadrant." The advertising jingle from "The Quickening" occasionally plays on a monitor on the outside-facing counter behind the bar.

According to the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Dawn of the Eagles, Quark used the latinum left to him by his father Keldar to open the bar in 2360.

External link

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