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Starfleet Career Summary
Civilian Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet Doctor Julian
Bashir, M.D.:
Quark, one of the most influential of modern Ferengi thanks to his
location at Deep Space Nine when the Bajoran wormhole was discovered, owns Quark's Bar 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 sometimes 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, the truth of which 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, 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 he be
aboard the Defiant's first Dominion contact mission. Married temporarily
to Klingon matriarch Grilka, he faced 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 experienced 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.
Even Rom finally began to find some backbone as the 2370s dawned,
standing up to Quark regarding their mother, his biased view of their
parents, and finally Nog's application to Starfleet Academy — the latter
a move Quark actually tried to sabotage. The next year, he nearly
stranded all three in 1947 Earth as lab specimens.
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 turned up
as a Cardassian dissident. He also fell 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 he once chided
O'Brien over his marriage troubles for not following the
submissive-female way of the Ferengis, 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 precepts 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 sources — 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."
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