The House of Quark (DS9 episode)
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| Star Trek: DS9 episode | |
| "The House of Quark" | |
 Quark stands with his new wife Grilka in "The House of Quark" |
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| Episode no. | 78 |
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| Prod. code | 449 |
| Airdate | October 10, 1994 |
| Writer(s) | Ronald D. Moore (teleplay) Tom Benko (story) |
| Director | Les Landau |
| Guest star(s) | Max Grodenchik as Rom Mary Kay Adams as Grilka Robert O'Reilly as Gowron Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien Carlos Carrasco as D'Ghor Joseph Ruskin as Tumek |
| Year | 2371 |
| Stardate | Unknown |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "The Search Part II" |
| Next | "Equilibrium" |
The House of Quark is an episode in the third season of the long running Star Trek:Deep Space Nine series.
[edit] Synopsis
With business slow in the bar, Quark's only customer, a Klingon, accidentally kills himself when he trips over and stabs himself. Then realizing a business opportunity, Quark claims responsibility that he has killed the Klingon in self defense. A formula for disaster has been concocted, especially when the Klingon's family arrives to settle things with the Ferengi...
[edit] The Plot
Quark's bar is receiving very little business and indeed the only customer in the bar is a klingon named Kozak. Kozak has run out of money and wants to start a line of credit at the bar. Quark refuses and the klingon gets so angry he pulls his knife on Quark. As Quark backs away from the kilingon, Kozak stumbles and falls on his own knife killing himself. Quark sees this as a business opportunity and tells everyone that he killed Kozak in self-defense.
After his widow, Grilka, arrives, she has Quark knocked out and taken back to the Klingon homeworld, where he unkowningly marries Grilka so she can protect the property long enough for Gowron to let her inherit the property due to extenuating circumstances. Quark has to confront Grilka's enemies, leading the temporary "House of Quark". Instead of fighting the late Kozak's brother, he tries to prove that the brother has taken money from Grilka's house for years. When all is resolved, Grilka is grateful to Quark, and he asks for a divorce, which she happily grants in Klingon customary fashion.
This episode is the first Star Trek production to definitively establish the name of the Klingon homeworld as Kronos (possible proper spelling Q'onos); in "Sins of the Father" in 1990, it was only referred to as the "first city of the Klingon empire", rather than a planet, and in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" in 1992, Chancellor Gorkon identified his battle cruiser as "Kronos One". Previous motion pictures and TV episodes never gave a name, while novels prior to 1994 either gave no name or named it "Klinzhai" or such.
[edit] External link
- The House of Quark article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
| Preceded by: "The Search" |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes | Followed by: "Equilibrium" |
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The Federation President in Star Trek VI referred to the Klinon Homeworld as Kronos during the peacetalks at the conclusion of the film. He said: "The total evacuation of Kronos within the fifty Earth-year timespan."
