116. Business as Usual

Summary

A. Ever since being blackballed by the FCA, Quark has been up to his lobes in debt. Having put his bar up as collateral, he faces losing everything when his investments fail. To the rescue comes his cousin Gaila, who wants Quark to eventually take his place in the arms dealing business, and introduces Quark to his dangerous associate Hagath. Though the Bajoran government lets them operate with impunity, Quark finds himself ostracized by the station's Federation citizens. And he finds himself in a moral dilemma when Hagath makes a deal that will cause the deaths of 28 million people. Quark's ultimate solution is to pretend to sell weapons to both sides--and to let both sides find out about it, causing the deal to fall through rather messily, but enabling Quark to live with himself.

B. With Keiko away, O'Brien has a hard time getting Kirayoshi to sleep.

Summary provided by The DS9 Encyclopedia and Lexicon by kind permission of Tracy Hemenover.