Business as Usual (7 Apr. 1997)

Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.

Director:

Alexander Siddig

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator), Rick Berman (creator),

Stars:

Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Avery Brooks	...	Captain Sisko
Rene Auberjonois	...	Odo
Michael Dorn	...	Lt. Commander Worf
Terry Farrell	...	Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax
Cirroc Lofton	...	Jake Sisko
Colm Meaney	...	Chief O'Brien
Armin Shimerman	...	Quark
Alexander Siddig	...	Doctor Bashir
Nana Visitor	...	Major Kira
Steven Berkoff	...	Hagath
Lawrence Tierney	...	Regent
Josh Pais	...	Gaila
Tim Halligan	...	Farrakk
Eric Cadora	...	Customer

Storyline

Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.

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Plot Keywords:

weapon selling | 24th century | arms dealer | directed by star

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 April 1997 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Quark: Do you think the Regent would be satisfied with only 17 million people killed?

User Reviews

Quark grows a Conscience... eventually

Quark is down to his last strip of Latinum and has no chance of paying off his debts so when his cousin arrives with a business opportunity he accepts even though in the past he has drawn the line at getting involved with the arms trade. Having access to top of the have holosuites means he doesn't need to bring any actual weapons on to DS9 and thus avoid breaking Federation law. Business is brisk and Quark's debts are being paid off but he learns that his boss Hagath is not to be crossed when somebody who displeased him has a fatal 'accident'. Quark may do almost anything for Latinum but when a new client wishes to buy a biological weapon to kill twenty eight million people his conscience gets the better of him and he arranges for the client and his enemy to meet hoping that they will kill each other or at least cause enough trouble for those present to get arrested. In a secondary story Chief O'Brien is finding it impossible to get his new son to stop crying when he is put down for more than a second so is forced to take him everywhere he goes.

This was a good episode, Armin Shimerman was great as Quark and Steven Berkoff is suitably villainous as Hagath. It was good to see Quark's attitude to his new business change as he realised what the consequences would be. The secondary story was okay and inserted some humour to the episode but wasn't particularly memorable.