"The House of Quark" Line-by-Line

[May 20]

Hello, Welcome!

We recently completed Clues Line-by-Line- thread in the TNG forum!

For any unfamiliar with our "game," you are asked to post only a single line (defined as one character speaking without interruption by another character) per message. You can post as often as you like, but someone else must post a line in between your posts.

Our "rule" is that if the episode has a "To Be Continued..." on the end, it is done in a single thread, but if it's just an arc of related episodes (like the Dominion Occupation Arc on DS9 or the Xindi Arc on ENT), each episode is a separate thread.

Get ready for a story, here we go!

 

[May 20]

[Quark's]

(A lady laughs, Morn gives a thumbs up and they both leave. There are no customers left.)
QUARK: Now I know we're doomed.

(http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/449.htm -- here's a link to a transcript for those who want to use it.)

 

[Athena28]

ROM: Why, brother?

 

[mattman8907]

QUARK: Rule of Acquisition two eighty six. When Morn leaves, it's all over.

 

[May 20]

ROM: There is no such rule.

 

[sekundant]

QUARK: There should be.

 

[May 20]

ROM: I know business is bad, but that's no reason

 

[mattman8907]

QUARK: Bad? Bad? It's twenty-one hundred hours, the bar's open, there's a sale on synthehol, and there's no one here!

 

[May 20]

(Correction, there's a drunken Klingon at a corner table.)
KOZAK: You! Ferengi! Another blood wine! Now!

 

[mattman8907]

ROM: At least someone is still here.

 

[sekundant]

QUARK: How many has he had?

 

[mattman8907]

ROM: A dozen.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

QUARK: I should've gone into insurance. Better hours, more money, less scruples. It's all Sisko's fault.

 

[sekundant]

ROM: Sisko?

 

[mattman8907]

QUARK: That's right. If he'd handled things better with the Dominion, none of this would've happened. They want a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant? Cut a deal, make a few arrangements, give them a little something for their trouble.

 

[May 20]

ROM: Brother...

 

[sekundant]

QUARK: But no, he had to play it tough, so now everyone's afraid of the Dominion.

 

[May 20]

ROM: Yes, but brother....

 

[mattman8907]

QUARK: And that means fewer people on the station, which means fewer people at Quark's, which means I am out of business.

 

[May 20]

KOZAK: Where's my wine, you cowering little Ferengi slug?