Stardate 58456.2: Starfleet sends Captain Freeman to Deep Space 9 for trade negotiations with the Karemma. While Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford are excited to explore the station, they encourage Mariner to spend time on the Cerritos with Jennifer and her friends, one of whom is hosting a salon. On the station, Tendi gets acquainted with Mesk, one of the few other Orions in Starfleet. Much to Tendi's chagrin, Mesk is into pirate stories. He also carries a tool that Tendi knows from Orion pirates. As the Karemma arrive, Colonel Kira and Captain Freeman quickly notice that they are not really interested in trade. When the delegation visits Quark's bar, Freeman attempts to get the bar owner interested in talking business with the Karemma, but her refuses. One of the Karemma angrily pushes over the enormously successful Quark 2000 replicator, which breaks apart and reveals its secret components. The Karemma use a device to shut down power on the whole station, which affects the Cerritos as well. Tendi, Rutherford and Mesk, who are just moving a shipment of Romulan ale into the Karemma ship, witness how the visitors abduct Quark. They are trapped in the cargo bay when the ship undocks and heads for the wormhole. Tendi asks Mesk to use his pirate skills to escape, but he confesses that he was adopted by humans and only knows Orions from holonovels. Tendi then grabs his tool, uses it to break through doors and disable the Karemma. Eventually she manages to block the engines, just as the vessel is about to enter the wormhole. A tractor beam from the station holds the ship in place. On the Cerritos, Mariner is bored at the awkward girls' party. When the power failure strikes and the candles quickly eat up the oxygen, Jennifer encourages her to finally act the way she would like to. Mariner stuns all the girls with a phaser so they would consume less air. With the Karemma and Quark back at the station, it turns out that they actually wanted to arrest him for stealing their technology that he used to build the Quark 2000. In order for everyone to profit from the situation, Freeman arranges a deal in which the Karemma drop the charges against Quark, in exchange for 76% of his profits. Boimler has earned many bars of latinum at the dabo table but agrees to receive just a gift certificate, as he couldn't use the money in Starfleet anyway.

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