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Hanok was a male Karemma who served as a commerce minister in the 2370s .

In 2372 , Hanok traveled to a remote Gamma Quadrant star system in a Karemma ship to meet with Benjamin Sisko and Quark aboard the USS Defiant .

He wished to discuss a trade dispute that had arisen between the Karemma and the Federation over taxes and fees imposed by the Ferengi Alliance , the intermediary between the two. Hanok told Sisko of the Ferengi charges including those for inspecting cargo for Founders and a tariff to help Tarkalean sheep herders – Ferengi-imposed taxes that had escaped the notice of the Federation Council .

The meeting between Hanok and the Defiant crew was detected by two Jem'Hadar warships that attacked Hanok's ship, which fled into the atmosphere of a nearby class-J gas giant . They did not respond to Hanok transmitting a request that they not flee.

After the Defiant entered the planet 's atmosphere to help the Karemma, Hanok was escorted to the mess hall , where Quark told him that the trade dispute was Rom 's fault. Hanok was unconvinced and told Quark, " If we survive this, I'll see to it that you never do business in the Gamma Quadrant again. "

Later, a Jem'Hadar torpedo impacted into the mess hall near Hanok and Quark, but did not detonate. The two later worked together and successfully defused it, aided in part by Hanok's knowledge of the design; Hanok himself had sold the weapons to the Dominion . When Quark accused him of lying when he claimed to "never sell sub-standard merchandise", Hanok ironically responded that he should probably offer the Jem'Hadar a refund.

After the Defiant destroyed the Jem'Hadar ships and rescued the Karemma crew, Hanok was brought to Deep Space 9 to await transportation back to Karemma . As he had promised, Quark introduced Hanok to dabo . Hanok later won a substantial amount of money , much to Quark's surprise. ( DS9 : " Starship Down ")

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Hanok was played by actor James Cromwell in his third of four Star Trek appearances.

Hanok was originally to have been a female Karemma. In the first draft script of "Starship Down", she held the title "negotiator" instead of "commerce minister" and was initially described thus; " She is exceptionally pretty – as Karemma go. "

The final draft script for "Starship Down" stated the pronunciation of Hanok's name as " HUN-ock ". It also described him and his people thus; " Tall, thin and elegant in bearing. Although the Karemma are mercantilist by nature, they're classy about it: think fine gem appraiser, not used car salesman. " [1]

James Cromwell had difficulties filming in the heavy prosthetics required for the role of Hanok. As he explained, " The makeup was pretty dominating. I don't know how an alien feels about any particular thing, so I just played him as a Human character and tried to handle the makeup. " ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion  (p. 284))

Robert Hewitt Wolfe described Hanok as "a great performance by James Cromwell" and "a great person for Quark to play against." ( Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages , p. 109)

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The Pocket TNG novel Q&A states Hanok was elected chief overseer for the Karemma Commercial Authority twice.

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Starship Down

• Episode aired Nov 13, 1995

A damaged Defiant must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with two Jem'Hadar ships inside a gas giant. A damaged Defiant must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with two Jem'Hadar ships inside a gas giant. A damaged Defiant must play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with two Jem'Hadar ships inside a gas giant.

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• Trivia This episode was one of the first Star Trek episodes to make extensive use of CGI. The Defiant, the Jem'Hadar fighter, the atmospheric probe and the clouds were all created in a computer.
• Goofs At 37:16 Quark removes the firing diode and the torpedo powers down and light goes out, but at 40:32 the torpedo is shown lit again.

[a blind torpedo has gone halfway through the Defiant's hull, sticking through the bulkhead]

Hanok : We sell these torpedoes to the Jem'Hadar.

Quark : I thought you said you never sold substandard merchandise.

[Hanok gives him a quizzical look]

Quark : This was supposed to explode on impact, wasn't it?

Hanok : ...Maybe I should offer them a refund.

[Hanok and Quark burst out laughing]

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The Defiant is meeting with a vessel from the Gamma Quadrant-based Karemma Commerce Ministry regarding a trade dispute with the Federation. It turns out Quark, who was serving as a middleman to avoid drawing attention from the Dominion, has been defrauding the Karemma by levying bogus taxes against them. Their representative, Hanok, has an impressive list to present to Sisko.

Then, without warning, two Jem'Hadar warships appear, no doubt angry to find the Karemma talking with Starfleet. The panicked Karemma crew take their ship into a nearby gas giant. The Jem'Hadar follow, pursued in turn by the Defiant , which begins a game of cat and mouse as the ships attempt to hunt each other in the hostile atmosphere where sensors barely function.

Hanok leaves things to the professionals and has a chat with his erstwhile business partner. Failing a transparent attempt to pin the blame on his brother, Quark is told in no uncertain terms that he is a liar and a cheat who will never be allowed to do business in the Gamma Quadrant again.

The Defiant searches the area using an improvised form of sonar, but an ambush by the Jem'Hadar leaves the ship badly damaged and sinking into the crushing atmosphere. Dax manages to get the engines back online, but she's hit with fluorine gas and can't make it to safety in time, so Bashir closes the bulkhead behind him to rescue her and drags her to a tiny compartment, where they're safe, for the moment.

Phasers are offline, so Sisko orders engineering to refit the ship's two atmospheric probes with torpedo warheads. At their next encounter, one of the probes succeeds in destroying an enemy ship, but not before it inflicts even more damage. The bridge is damaged beyond repair and Sisko receives a severe concussion, so Worf takes command in engineering.

Kira stays behind to care for Sisko, but without Bashir, all she can do is talk to him to keep him from falling comatose. She realizes, after a time, that all she can talk about are boring shift schedules, since they have no relationship outside of work. She admits that his religious significance makes him hard to be comfortable around, though she is clearly pleased when Sisko then asks her to tell him a story.

In the mess hall, Quark has wasted no time trying to sweet talk his way back into Hanok's good graces, contrasting the challenge and excitement of his adversarial business methods against the Karemma's fair but boring approach. Their debate is interrupted when a would-be fatal torpedo suddenly strikes the hull... but miraculously fails to detonate . It hums angrily, jutting out of the wall.

The pair decide they must disarm the torpedo. Recognizing the torpedo as a model sold by his people, Hanok remembers that one of two diodes inside can be removed to defuse it... but he doesn't remember which one . Quark urges him to use his instincts and pick one, but when Hanok hesitates too long, Quark simply snatches one at random. Hanok gasps in horror, but the torpedo is disarmed. Hanok is forced to admit that Quark's outlook holds a certain excitement. He allows himself to be persuaded to get back into business with the Ferengi.

Bashir and Dax are trapped in the supply closet and huddle together for warmth. Bashir chuckles and notes that this predicament is oddly similar to a fantasy he used to have about spending some alone time with Dax while marooned on a runabout. Dax tells him that he came on too strong when they first met. Bashir promises her that he's abandoned such thoughts, but he quickly deduces that she actually misses being pursued.

In Engineering, Worf is riding the engineering staff hard as he struggles to get back into the fight. O'Brien takes him aside and advises him that the NCOs work best when they're given problems to solve rather than strict orders. Worf takes his advice to heart and asks for the engineers to come up with an Improvised Weapon as part of a trap he's devising. The engineers leap at the challenge and jury-rig the deflector into a one-shot phaser emitter. Worf's plan works, and they destroy the Jem'Hadar ship. With no more threats to evade, the crew are free to rescue each group of stranded passengers from their predicament.

Back on the station, Worf receives a repair report from an engineer and allows him to go about it as he sees fit, though O'Brien cuts the man's estimated repair time down to manageable levels, saying "You can give them a little slack, but you can't take your hands off the reins." Dax finds Bashir trapped in conversation with Morn and "rescues" him, declaring that they're now even, which provokes a surprised reaction from the doctor. Hanok takes a spin at dabo and wins a big jackpot, causing Quark to remark with unease that the man is a quick study. With the work day coming to a close, the newly recovered Sisko decides to invite Kira to a baseball game on the holosuite , which she happily accepts.

• Actually Pretty Funny : Hanok is insulted by Quark's suggestion that the Karemma would ever deliver substandard merchandise. Then a torpedo hits the lounge and fails to detonate, and Hanok explains while examining it that it's Karemma-made. Quark: I thought you said you never sold substandard merchandise. ( Beat ) This was supposed to explode on impact, wasn't it? Hanok: Maybe I should offer them a refund. (they both burst out laughing)
• Arms Dealer : In addition to being the Dominion's foremost leader in trade and commerce, the Karemma are also a weapons supplier for the Jem'Hadar.
• Artistic License – Biology : Unless Trill have some truly bizarre alien biology, Jadzia should be in far worse shape after breathing in "a few lung-fulls of fluorine." Bashir and a nearby Red Shirt probably breathed in some fluorine as well, which wouldn't have been good for their lungs either.
• Artistic License – Economics : According to Hanok, the Karemma subscribe to a common mistaken belief about market economics: that businesses generally have a profit target they want to hit, and derive their prices by adding this predetermined profit margin to production and shipping expenses. This is sometimes used as a counterargument to minimum wage increases: the argument goes that if wages go up, companies will have to charge more. While contracting does sometimes work this way, the reality is that in the normal consumer economy, businesses actually usually subscribe to Quark's view: charge whatever you can get the customer to pay. In some cases, businesses will intentionally price products at a loss with the expectation of making up the difference elsewhere: new car dealerships typically get bonuses from the manufacturer for getting a certain number of vehicles per month out the door, and Microsoft and Sony price their game consoles below cost while expecting to make their profits on game sales.
• Badass Boast : Hanok asks how Quark is going to open the torpedo casing, to which the Ferengi replies "there's no lock that can't be picked."
• Big "WHAT?!" : Sisko's reaction to Hanok telling him about the taxes the Ferengi have been levying.
• Blatant Lies : Quark tries to shift blame onto both Rom and Federation commerce laws to appease Hanok. Hanok sees right through it and is insulted by Quark's refusal to own up to scamming him.
• Brick Joke : While trying to keep Sisko conscious, Kira suggests switching DS9 to a four-shift rotation. At the end of the episode, Sisko brings up the four-shift rotation as if it were his idea. Kira plays along with it. (Sisko was probably joking, and she probably knew it.)
• O'Brien cuts tension in the engine room by telling of the action from the "Improbable Cause" / "The Die Is Cast" two parter. He apparently tells it a lot.
• At the end of the episode, Sisko dons the baseball cap that Kasidy gave him in the season premiere .
• Casual Danger Dialogue : Not only do Quark and Hanok indulge in this during their Wire Dilemma , they laugh their asses off. Hanok: We sell these torpedoes to the Jem'Hadar! Quark: I thought you said you never sold "sub-standard merchandise." This was supposed to explode on impact, wasn't it? Hanok: [beat] Maybe I should offer them a refund. [the two break out laughing]
• Worf experiences some growing pains in his new role as a command division officer, coming off as kind of a hardass, but with O'Brien's help, he learns some new management skills: Ease up, but not too much.
• Kira is forced to confront the fact that she has trouble relating to Sisko on a personal level because of his role as the Emissary and her superior officer, but having to look after him helps the two bond as friends, not just co-workers.
• The Coats Are Off : Quark removes his coat before working on the Jem'Hadar torpedo.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory! : An engineer takes the initiative to reconfigure a control panel due to the technical limitations they're under, but Worf wants it set back to standard rather than adapt. He eventually learns to trust more in the engineers' judgment.
• Don't Think, Feel : Quark telling Hanok to not overthink the Wire Dilemma , but just choose one of the diodes. Thankfully, he makes the right choice.
• Fire-Forged Friends : The episode starts with Hanok ready to gut Quark like a fish. It ends with them enjoying a spin at the dabo wheel.
• Four Lines, All Waiting : Sisko and Kira on The Bridge , Worf and O'Brien in the engine room, Bashir and Jadzia in the turbolift, and Quark and Hanok in the mess hall. All four plot lines get closure on the station.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus : The baseball cap Sisko tosses to Kira at the end of the episode is a cap for the Homestead Grays, arguably considered the best team of the Negro Leagues in the early 1900s. After the MLB officially recognized the Negro Leagues in 2020, Grays player Josh Gibson suddenly had the home run record. No wonder Sisko was a fan.
• Friendship Moment : The end result of Kira and Sisko's plot is this. While trying to keep Sisko awake, Kira confesses how intimidating it is to work with the Emissary, and admits that this is why she and Sisko have never grown very close over the years. Sisko took note: in the final scene, he has a brief meeting with Kira, and just before she leaves, he invites her to a baseball game on the holodeck, even giving her a ball cap! The smile she gives him in return is a mile wide.
• Gallows Humor : Hanok dryly notes that he should offer the Jem'Hadar a refund after one of the torpedoes they fired at the Karemma and the Defiant failed to explode on impact and gets stuck partway into their compartment. He and Quark both laugh themselves silly over it and are still stuck helplessly breaking into chuckles while they try to defuse the warhead.
• Good Is Boring : The Karemma have a very by-the-book method for establishing fair trade prices, based on the various production costs plus a reasonable profit margin. Quark finds their approach incredibly dull. Though he doesn't succeed in turning Hanok into a sleaze like him, Quark does get him to appreciate the thrill of a good gamble. Quark: You make it sound so antiseptic. Where's the bargaining? Where's the scheming? Where's the greed ?
• Greed Makes You Dumb : Discussed ; Quark complains to Hanok that the Karemma way of doing business is no fun because there's no greed involved. Hanok retorts that "Greed leads to misjudgement, and that can result in a loss of profits." Quark: Yet there's no risk! There's no thrill! Your way is just barter . If you wanna win big, you've gotta be willing to play the odds. It's like gambling! Hanok: Gambling is the last recourse of the desperate. Only a fool would risk losing what he has to chance!
• Hidden Depths : Quark shows that his scheming, gambler's outlook on life has its advantages. Rather than wait and hope to be rescued, he takes a risk and defuses the torpedo himself, saving the ship.
• Hypocrite : Hanok moralizes at Quark about his shady business practices, and seems upstanding until the Jem'hadar lodge one of his own defective torpedos into the ship. He muses that he should offer them a refund, before bursting out laughing.
• Improvised Weapon : Both arming atmospheric probes with torpedo warheads and the deflector dish as mentioned above.
• Intimate Healing : Bashir and Jadzia cuddle up for warmth in the freezing turbolift.
• Irony : The Karemma pride themselves on the quality of their product and sold torpedoes to the Jem'Hadar. Hanok (along with everyone else on the Defiant ) nearly dies when one such torpedo is fired at the ship, but they are spared because it failed to explode on impact. Quark and Hanok have a hearty laugh at the absurd irony.
• It Only Works Once : Muñiz tells Worf that the deflector dish gun will only give one shot. Fortunately, the new-and-improved Worf only needs one shot.
• It's All My Fault : Hanok sees the impending deaths of his people at the hands of the Jem'Hadar as his fault for meeting with Sisko. He even offers to make a Heroic Sacrifice to save his crew.
• Locked in a Room : Bashir and Dax spend most of the episode trapped in a turbolift after the deck is flooded with gas. Bashir even lampshades the trope when he says it used to be an oft-held fantasy of his, as it seemed the only way he could get to know her.
• Mandatory Line : Odo only appears in one scene, advising Hanok to not blow his money at Quark's.
• Massively Numbered Siblings : Morn apparently regales Bashir with a story about his 17 brothers and sisters.
• No OSHA Compliance : Realistic consequences finally bites with one of Star Trek's grievously unsafe bridge designs. Sisko gives himself a potentially fatal concussion falling onto one of the free-standing consoles that flank the captain's chair.
• Quark says this to Hanok after cheating him. After all, cheating people is just what he does .
• Hanok then says this to Quark while disregarding his dabo advice. It turns out to be a good call.
• Oh, Crap! : Quark and Hanok when they see a torpedo protruding into the mess hall.
• Prayer Is a Last Resort : Kira can't think of anything to do for the concussed Sisko except pray that the Prophets will save the Emissary.
• Reasonable Authority Figure : Worf learns to give the engineers more room to use their own judgment to overcome problems rather than micromanage them. However, O'Brien still advises him to keep his hands on the reins.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech : Hanok chews Quark out both for lying and for not fessing up to it when caught.
• Recycled Premise : The episode has a similar concept to The Next Generation's "Disaster" . Both episodes jump between groups of crew stuck addressing different crises in different sections of a damaged ship.
• Red Shirt : Two crewmen, Boyce and Peterson (neither of whom got any lines), are both killed in the Jem'Hadar assault.
• Scotty Time : In order to convert the deflector array into a phaser emitter, Muñiz says they can do it in twenty minutes, with Stevens saying it can be done in ten if they bypass the safeties. At the end of the episode, Stevens says they can have the Defiant repaired in sixteen hours, to which O'Brien says they can get it done in twelve.
• Space Is an Ocean : The episode is such a riff on submarine stories like Das Boot that the Defiant actually dives into the atmosphere of a gas giant to make the situation more similar.
• Sub Story : IN SPACE! with the crushing depths of a gas giant used instead of the crushing depths of the ocean.
• That's an Order! : Sisko orders Bashir to seal off Deck 2 during a hull breach, even though that would mean sacrificing Jadzia. Bashir decides to Take a Third Option and seals off the deck while rushing in to save Jadzia.
• Thicker Than Water : Kira's story about three brothers who argue over money ends with the brothers realising that their bond is more important, giving the money away, and going home.
• Thrill Seeker : Quark and Hanok's subplot serves as a nice bit of insight on why Quark is the way he is. He isn't just a sleaze for the sake of sleaziness; he gets a certain thrill out of his wheeling and dealing lifestyle, preferring to cheat, take gambles, and see what he can get away with.
• Unwanted False Faith : Sisko has never been comfortable as the Emissary, but this episode takes a closer look at Kira's perspective. She knows he's just a man , but still finds it hard to be at ease around him. The time they spend together because of his injuries helps to break down those barriers a bit. She starts to see him as more than just her boss or religious icon.
• Whole-Plot Reference : It's basically Das Boot in space, with elements of Crimson Tide .
• Wire Dilemma : The torpedo Quark and Hanok are dealing with has two diodes. Removing one will disarm it, and removing the other will detonate the warhead. Hanok doesn't remember which is which. With a 50/50 shot, Quark throws caution to the wind and yanks one out. He chooses correctly.
• With Due Respect : O'Brien says this to Worf when advising him to cut the engineers a little slack.
• You Are in Command Now : With the bridge systems knocked out, Captain Sisko injured, and Major Kira treating him, Worf takes command of the Defiant from engineering.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks returns to Deep Space Nine and updates fans on what Colonel Kira Nerys, Quark, and the station are up to now.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, Episode 6 - "Hear All, Trust Nothing" The USS Cerritos docking at Deep Space Nine in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3, episode 6, is a long-awaited event that finally gave longtime Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans an update on the space station formerly commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) was assigned to open trade negotiations with the Karemma from the Gamma Quadrant, which meant Freeman and the Cerritos' Lower Deckers got to spend time on Deep Space Nine.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ran for 7 seasons in the 1990s, and it pioneered the serialized storytelling enjoyed by Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard today. Darker and more complex than Star Trek: The Next Generation , DS9 boasted the deepest, most varied, and fascinating company of supporting characters to compliment Captain Sisko and the main cast. The last few seasons of DS9 also comprised the groundbreaking Dominion War storyline, a landmark conflict where the United Federation of Planets, the Klingons, and their allies barely fended off the conquest of the Alpha Quadrant by the Dominion from the Gamma Quadrant. At the end of DS9 , Sisko, who was also part-Prophet and one of Bajor's gods, became a non-linear being and took his place in the wormhole, AKA the Celestial Temple.

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Beyond the occasional Easter egg or fleeting reference, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's characters haven't gotten the same vaunted returns to the franchise as the TNG or Star Trek: Voyager casts have. This is why Star Trek: Lower Decks' DS9 episode is such an event. Lower Decks season 1 showed a flashback of Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) drinking on the station, but the Cerritos arriving at DS9 finally delivered a sight for sore eyes and allowed fans to catch up with just a few familiar faces. Here's what we found out from Lower Decks ' visit to DS9.

The State Of DS9 After The Dominion War

The Dominion War concluded in 2375 and Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3 happens sometime around 2381. In the 6 years since the war ended, Deep Space Nine has enjoyed a period of peace. After the Dominion's defeat, ships are still allowed to travel to and from the Gamma Quadrant via the Wormhole. The station itself is back to its pre-Dominion War times, with a Bajoran and Starfleet presence, and a bustling Promenade full of shops and restaurants servicing every type of alien species in the galaxy.

Kira Is Still Running DS9 (And She Knows Lt. Shax)

Colonel Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) is still the commander of Deep Space Nine and has held the post ever since Captain Sisko became one with the Prophets. Her time as a rebel fighting the Cardassian Occupation long behind her, Kira has settled into her role as station commander. Notably, Sisko's beloved baseball keeps its spot of honor on Kira's desk. Unsurprisingly, Kira also knows Lt. Shax (Fred Tatasciore), the Cerritos' Security Chief, because they fought together (and apparently each other) during the Occupation. Colonel Kira seems comfortable in her administrative role in spite of the regular bouts of chaos that flare up on the station.

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Quark (Armin Shimerman) is still running his bar on the Promenade. Quark's brother, Rom (Max Grodénchik) became the Ferengi Grand Nagus at the end of DS9 , but Quark has become a successful and profitable entrepreneur. Thanks to his Quark 2000 replicator, the popularity of Quark's Synthehol drinks have allowed him to franchise his bar into dozens of worlds. Naturally, Quark's secret that he "borrowed" the technology from Karemma was exposed and the Ferengi was momentarily arrested before he had to turn over most of his profits to the Gamma Quadrant aliens.

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While it was a joy to see (and hear) Colonel Kira, Quark, and Morn again, Star Trek: Lower Decks ' visit to DS9 didn't fulfill all the fans' (lofty) expectations. The Cerritos crew hanging out at DS9 left behind most of the same questions as before. Sadly, there was no mention at all of either Captain Sisko or Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton), or Ben's wife Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson), and their child. Where were Dr. Bashir and Lt. Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) and are they still on the station? Is Vic Fontaine (James Darren) still a popular program in Quark's holosuites? Where is Lt. Nog (Aron Eisenberg)? What is the status of Odo (Rene Auberjonois) and the Founders after the Dominion War? Star Trek: Lower Decks delivered a heartwarming and hilarious half-hour romp on DS9, but perhaps it could never have lived up to everything Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans hoped for.

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They were tall and slender with black or dark brown hair that is combed back. They had a head ridge, like Klingons , but smoother and without edges. The ridge goes down over the nose, making the nose seem large. There was a line in the skin on each side of the nose pointing downwards to the outer sides of their faces.

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The Karemma apparently joined the Dominion peacefully and were not forced to do so. ( DS9 novelization : The Search )

First contact was made between the Karemma and the Ferengi in the year 2370 . The Ferengi struck a trade deal with the Karemma and agreed to purchase tulaberry wine to sell in the Alpha Quadrant . ( DS9 episode : " Rules of Acquisition ")

In 2371 , Federation representatives aboard the USS Defiant approached the Karemma in an effort to contact the Founders. They had to meet up with First Minister Ornithar to do it. ( DS9 episode : " The Search, Part I ")

In 2372 , Karemma representative Hanok came aboard the Defiant to discuss trade disputes with the Federation. His ship and the Defiant were both attacked by Jem'Hadar and forced into the atmosphere of a gas giant . The Defiant eventually destroyed the Jem'Hadar ships and rescued the crew of the Karemman ship. ( DS9 episode : " Starship Down ")

Also in 2372 , the Karemma received thirty-five new transport ships that were built by the Ferengi . ( DS9 novel : The 34th Rule )

A secret code used by the Dominion during the Dominion War was based on the language of a primitive island-dwelling tribe on planet Karemma. ( SCE eBook : War Stories, Book 1 )

Culture [ ]

The Karemma were strict mercantilists, but a controlled form with the individual person meaning little. ( DS9 novelization : The Search )

Karemma individuals [ ]

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Appearances and references [ ], appearances [ ].

• DS9 episode : " The Search, Part I "
• DS9 novelization : The Search
• DS9 episode : " Prophet Motive "
• DS9 episode : " Starship Down "
• DS9 novel : Rising Son
• DS9 novel : Sacraments of Fire
• TNG novel : Q & A
• LD episode : " Hear All, Trust Nothing "

References [ ]

• DS9 novel : The 34th Rule
• DS9 novel : Trial by Error
• TNG short story : " That Sleep of Death "
• SCE short story : " Wildfire, Book 1 "
• SCE short story : " War Stories, Book 1 "

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External link [ ].

• Karemma article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
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• 3 Totality (Andromeda)

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Below Deck with Lower Decks: Moooorn

The chattiest guest at Quark's this side of the Alpha Quadrant!

SPOILER WARNING: Discussion for Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 6 “Hear All, Trust Nothing” to follow!

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Who doesn’t love an exciting trip to cool, famous, or even historical places? It’s especially neat when your job sends you and there won’t be much for you to do while your captain works. You’re free to enjoy some well-deserved downtime, so of course you find yourself in a whole new batch of trouble.

Welcome to Star Trek: Lower Decks .

This latest episode sees Captain Freeman running point on important trade negotiations with representatives of the Karemma, a race from the Gamma Quadrant. Despite being part of the Dominion, they were willing to negotiate agreements with the Federation and other non-Dominion powers.

“Hear All, Trust Nothing”

In the years after the Dominion War, that willingness to engage other spacefaring civilizations has only increased, and Starfleet has sensed an opportunity to solidify its own diplomatic ties with the Karemma. Since the main route to the Gamma Quadrant is through the stable wormhole located near the planet Bajor, you know what that means? It’s time for the Cerritos to visit Deep Space 9 ! It’s also an opportunity for the Lower Deckers to generate some new bout of shenanigans in which to mire themselves.

And so it goes.

This episode marks the first time the famous space station has appeared on-screen since the series finale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1999. For Ensign Mariner, it represents something of a reunion and trip down Memory Lane, as she was posted to the station earlier in her Starfleet career. It’s also the first chance we get to catch up with characters like Colonel Kira Nerys, Quark—he of Quark’s Bar fame—and, perhaps the station’s most famous resident, Morn.

That’s right, I said it.

"Doctor Bashir, I Presume"

One of DS9’s most popular characters is that adorable barfly, Morn . A member of the Lurian species, Morn was a mainstay at Quark’s, present in 93 episodes across the show’s seven seasons. Of those appearances, the vast majority depicted him sitting on a stool at one end of the establishment’s bar. When the Cerritos arrives at the station and the Lower Deckers begin sampling the wares on its Promenade, they make their way to Quark’s and who do they find?

Say it with me — “MOOOOOOOOORN!”

As far as we’re able to tell, Morn has been sitting there this whole time, drinking and watching Dabo games unfold without uttering anything resembling an audible word.

According to Mark Allen Shepherd, the actor who portrayed Morn throughout the series, several scripts featured dialogue for his character, but his lines were among the first ones cut even before cameras rolled on scenes in which he appears. Despite pretty much never saying anything, Morn became and remains one of DS9’s fan-favorite characters.

For those who might not know, the name “Morn” is an anagram of “Norm.” In this case, it refers to Norm Peterson, one of the local regulars of that little bar in Boston where everybody knows your name, Cheers . In 275 episodes over the course of 11 seasons, Norm sat perched atop a stool at one corner of the Cheers bar. Unlike Morn, Norm is something of a talker, and his entrance to the bar is always heralded with shouts of “Norm!” from the rest of the crowd before he goes on to make some wisecrack in response to a question posed by one of the bartenders.

"Who Mourns for Morn?"

For our Morn, listening to whatever scheme Quark is up to is more than enough social interaction until the next visit. Of course, maybe Mariner got him to talk at some point while she was assigned to the station.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel. The series will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in the UK, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Italy, France, the Caribbean, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and South Korea.

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Lower Decks ' Tribute to Deep Space Nine Is Perfect Beyond Pastiche

"hear all, trust nothing" continues season 3's turnaround with an episode that packs more than just star trek parody..

This week’s Star Trek: Lower Decks opens with a gag about the slow, majestic grandeur of the Deep Space Nine title theme . And if that was all Lower Decks had to offer for an episode set on the iconic show’s titular space station, that might be fine, if disappointing—and in line with the first half of this season . Thankfully, the show’s re-invigoration wants it to be more than that.

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After last week delivered the first episode of Lower Decks ’ first season that felt like it leaned more on the growth of its heroes than it did the Trek pastiche, “Hear All, Trust Nothing” continues that trend while somehow also arguably being the most gleeful, nerdiest fanservice episode of the season. As the Cerritos docks at DS9 when Captain Freeman is hauled in at the last minute as part of tense negotiations between the Federation and the Karemma—a Gamma Quadrant species seen in a few episodes of Deep Space Nine engaging in economic deals with the Federation through Quark and Ferengi contacts—our heroes find themselves with time to spare. As Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler head out to geek out over the famous locale they’re docked at, an anxious Mariner finds herself dealing with an awkward mission of her own: being introduced to her girlfriend’s circle of friends.

Blessedly, Boimler and Mariner’s plots slide effortlessly into the background of the episode. Not because they’re bad or anything, but because they’re the characters that have already had so much of Lower Decks ’ attention so far. Boimler pretty much sits this one out playing Dabo at Quark’s, and while it’s good to actually see Mariner properly interacting with her girlfriend—and growing their relationship past her own anxiety of being perceived as something of an outcast to Jennifer’s snooty, salon-hosting friends—that this takes up the B-plot rather than the A-plot is a welcome relief, allowing us to put the spotlight on two things Lower Decks does best: Trek nonsense and earnest character work.

And both of these things are really, really good this week. The Trek nonsense is, of course, a loving celebration of Deep Space Nine , given the setting of “Hear All, Trust Nothing.” We have wonderful guest stars in the form of Nana Visitor and Armin Shimmerman returning as Kira and Quark, respectively, and we have all the sort of finger-pointing “look, a DS9 thing!” you’d want out of a Lower Decks trip to the wormhole. As Tendi, Boimler, and Rutherford walk down the Promenade— the Promenade!—they giggle over the sorts of tropes that became part of the texture of DS9 across its seven seasons, the shops, the railings young Jake Sisko and Nog would dangle their feet over while hanging out, Quark’s itself (now the hub of a merchandising operation that has branched out into a whole chain of Ferengi franchisees, because of course it has). But it’s beyond that, too. This is an episode of Lower Decks , in the style of Deep Space Nine —travelers cutting deals with each other, no big stakes, the humdrum aftermath of the Dominion War, Kira being very much tired of Quark’s bullshit. This is beyond just homage and reference, it’s a love of Star Trek so sincere that Lower Decks just basically gives us a half-hour, two dimensional episode of Deep Space Nine season eight.

That love extends to Lower Decks taking a page out of Deep Space Nine by giving itself a story that is rooted in the banality of life in Starfleet, and life aboard a station like DS9. Following Tendi and Rutherford as they find themselves roped into carting supplies from the Cerritos to the Karemma ship, they’re joined by another Orion stationed on DS9, one who, much to Tendi’s discomfort, is very into their species’ piratical roots. It provides Lower Decks a chance to not just dive into Tendi’s character—something it frustratingly has not done enough before this—and explore a very Deep Space Nine idea in the view of a “perfect” member of a species, and how people accept and show parts of their culture to the people they trust most.

When things go awry with the Karemma negotiations—because, to the surprise of no one who watched Deep Space Nine , of Quark short-shrifting the Karemma and swiping some of their replicator tech for his bar—it’s up to Tendi, after blowing up at her fellow Orion for pushing their pirate heritage on her and Rutherford, to lean on what she learned before coming to Starfleet to save the day in uncharacteristically aggressive style. It’s great to watch Tendi kick ass and almost single-handedly stop the Karemma from running away with Quark as a hostage, but it’s even better for her to become the momentary star of Lower Decks here, and learn, in her relationship with Rutherford—poetic that he too was subject to some much-needed focus in last week’s great episode—that she shouldn’t hide who she was just because Starfleet needs to see “good” Orions, but accept the totality of who she is, is a great bit of character work.

It’s also something that’s deeply , well, Deep Space Nine . A show that used everyone from Kira and Odo, Quark and Worf, Bashir and Rom, and so many others to explore the dualities of people who serve, and the pressure of being torn between two cultures within the Federation and without it would’ve felt right at home tackling an episode like this, in some wild alternate reality where Tendi wasn’t a Lower Decks character. It’s fitting then its titular setting was indeed rather a literal home for it, rather than a metanarrative one—and no fonder a tribute from Lower Decks to Deep Space Nine could be possible, no matter how many cute gags and references it could throw in.

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