• sharpiemarker@feddit.deEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

    Quark got a lot more than that. He also got respect, second base/hand on thigh, and a little bdsm. All in all, a good day.

    • dejected_warp_core@startrek.websiteEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      You forgot:

      • Got Klingon married
      • won survived a duel with a (very angry) Klingon
      • Trounced said Klingon with scathing financial evidence, disgracing him publicly
      • Saved his wife’s house (whole estate with social standing intact)
      • Secured wife’s place on the council
      • Got Klingon divorced

      No idea if he got to keep those furs.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        11 months ago

        An edit to the last point, as well as one more

        • got amicably Klingon divorced (which is no mean feat)
        • still on very good terms with the Klingon ex as far as we know
      • dejected_warp_core@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Ah yes, the ledgers.

        Actuarial acrobatics so foul, that they are still talking of it on Feringinar to this day. The Klingons involved thought they had invented a new martial art by way of mathematics, and their deep fiscal wounds would be the stuff of song and wine in Stovokor. Unfortunately, it was a hilariously naked attempt at simple fraud. No double-books, no accumulation of rounding errors, no plausible line-items for non-existent goods, no money laundering, no elaborate fences, no nameless middlemen that aren’t middlemen, no real subterfuge. Just plain, conventional, bad math and bogus prices. No, the legend persists not because of how brilliant a scam this was, but rather how something so simple almost toppled one of the greatest houses on Kronos; a practical bankruptcy for a Klingon! That is, until Quark came along and explained the deed in plain, simple, Federation Common tongue (ugh) so that even a baby could understand.