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minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-26 days agoWas just about to post the text from the episode before your edit. So it was a bargained extortion. edit: here it is anyway SISKO: Maybe I don’t know much about Ferengi culture but I do know who holds the lease on your bar. QUARK: The Federation. And I couldn’t ask for better landlords. SISKO: That’s because we don’t ask you to pay your rent, or to reimburse us for your maintenance repairs, or the drain on the station’s power supply. QUARK: You’re a very generous people. SISKO: Until today. Let’s see. Five years of back rent, plus power consumption, plus the repairs. Do you know how much latinum that is? QUARK: A lot.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoI mean, in a situation where one party is being extremely generous and the other is operating in bad faith, it’s an appropriate response. Or, through the Federation lens: Sisko simply met Quark on his cultural level.
Was just about to post the text from the episode before your edit. So it was a bargained extortion.
edit: here it is anyway
I mean, in a situation where one party is being extremely generous and the other is operating in bad faith, it’s an appropriate response.
Or, through the Federation lens: Sisko simply met Quark on his cultural level.