Why was Quark on the mission? It doesn't make sense, he's a civilian.
The Siege of AR-558 and Quark
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Yeah it's nonsense. They try to make it a case of Grand Nagus Zek wanting to know what was going on on the front line. Which was trash.
Like a) the Grand Nagus would be interested in war machinations of the Federation - and not high level strategic stuff, actual on the ground tactics. and b) he'd send a fucking bar man.
The contrivance to get Quark into the Gamma Quadrant - that he was there to look after Zek's businesses interests, keep things sweet with the Karemma made more sense back in an earlier season.
In terms of why the writers did it, they said they wanted some one who wasn't Starfleet to provide an outside voice/viewpoint.
Like a) the Grand Nagus would be interested in war machinations of the Federation - and not high level strategic stuff, actual on the ground tactics. and b) he'd send a fucking bar man.
The contrivance to get Quark into the Gamma Quadrant - that he was there to look after Zek's businesses interests, keep things sweet with the Karemma made more sense back in an earlier season.
In terms of why the writers did it, they said they wanted some one who wasn't Starfleet to provide an outside voice/viewpoint.
Starfleet planned their mission at AR-558 to just be taking them some supplies and then heading off again. Easy-peasy. If they'd known they were going to be reinforcing the exhausted staff for any length of time, I'm sure they wouldn't have taken Quark, even to do a favor for the Nagus.
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