"Body Parts" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 25 episode of the fourth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website.
Quark makes a trip to Ferenginar to get a physical, in order to get his life insurance renewed. The physical reveals that he will die from a rare disease. In the usual Ferengi manner, he auctions off his vacuum-desiccated remains on the Ferengi Futures Exchange, to raise money to p...
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"Body Parts" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 25 episode of the fourth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website.
Quark makes a trip to Ferenginar to get a physical, in order to get his life insurance renewed. The physical reveals that he will die from a rare disease. In the usual Ferengi manner, he auctions off his vacuum-desiccated remains on the Ferengi Futures Exchange, to raise money to pay off his debts.
After being on the market for a while, he gets a buyer at 500 bars of gold-pressed latinum, and sells them. A few hours later, he finds out that his medical exam was in error, and in fact he isn't going to die. He therefore cancels the arrangements he already made to pay his debts.
The next day the buyer of the vacuum-desiccated remains comes to his quarters on the station: it is his old adversary Brunt, from the Ferengi Commerce Authority. Brunt wants what he has already paid for: Quark's desiccated remains, no more, and no...
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