Body Parts ( episode ) When Quark learns that he is dying , he auctions his vacuum - desiccated body to raise capital . Meanwhile , a shuttle accident prompts Dr . Bashir to transfer Keiko ' s baby into Major Kira . Summary . Teaser . Dax , Chief O ' Brien , and Worf are in Ops discussing the trip that Bashir , Kira , and Keiko are on in the Gamma Quadrant . O ' Brien frets to Worf and Dax on how he didn ' t want Keiko to go to Torad V in the first place " in her condition " . Meanwhile , in his bar , Quark treats Rom to a glass of snail juice uncharacteristically on the house , to celebrate his return from Ferenginar and to announce that he is dying to all of his customers . Act One . Quark declares he has Dorek Syndrome with just six days to live , which he learned of after his annual insurance physical . Rom takes some convincing that there ' s no other recourse , including suggesting talking to Dr . Bashir , but Quark doesn ' t think that will help . Quark soon turns to the significant debt he has and funeral arrangements to make . Rom suggests selling his vacuum - desiccated remains on the Ferengi Futures Exchange . Quark doesn ' t believe that will help , as he believes he is not viewed favorably by other Ferengi , " Starfleet ' s favorite bartender , " a joke . Rom insists he try , so Quark agrees . Shortly afterward in Ops , the emerges from the wormhole with severe damage . Worf reports to Captain Sisko that Dr . Bashir has reported two injuries : Kira and Keiko . O ' Brien rushes to the infirmary and learns from Kira that Keiko is still in surgery . He also learns that Kira is now carrying his son . Act Two . O ' Brien is now with Sisko and Bashir , who is explaining Keiko was injured in the accident with an asteroid in the Gamma Quadrant . She was stabilized , but Bashir had to move the baby to Kira to save its life and , interestingly , that due to the short gestation period of Bajoran s , Kira must carry the baby to term . O ' Brien has to process this . Later , Keiko and Kira soon recover and Kira goes to visit Keiko in her quarters , both feeling the weight of what ' s transpired and Keiko expressing her thanks . Rom goes to visit Quark to hear about the sale . At first , it seems no one but Rom wants to buy a piece of Quark , which he of course finds insulting . He starts to dismay about his life choices in opening a bar on Deep Space 9 , however , Quark is overjoyed to find that an anonymous bidder wants to buy all 52 discs for five hundred bars of latinum . Convinced the anonymous bidder is The Nagus and fearful that the bid will be retracted , Quark accepts the bid and sells his remains . Rom congratulates him . Quark begins to arrange paying off his debts and arranging his funeral when Bashir informs him that his doctor on Ferenginar , Orpax , had made an error and he is not going to die . Quark is excited about the prospect of suing his doctor for malpractice ; the continuation of his life is an afterthought . However , later , Brunt of the FCA arrives at his quarters and explains that he was the anonymous buyer . He condescendingly asks if Quark thought the Nagus placed the bid . The two laugh and agree that it would be a ridiculous idea . Quark explains that he is surprised that Brunt placed the bid and that he is not going to die . Brunt knows this already and has arrived to ensure that his merchandise , 52 discs of vacuum desiccated Quark , will be delivered on time in six days . Act Three . Quark makes it clear that he is not dying , to which Brunt replies that he does not care that Quark isn ' t dying : he wants his merchandise . He intends to defile Quark ' s remains upon receiving them , and will not be talked out of the contract . Quark proceeds to offer Brunt a full refund and progressively larger amounts of latinum to try to convince Brunt to give up the deal . Brunt refuses all offers and tells Quark he will only accept his remains . When Quark asks what Brunt expects him to do , Brunt suggests Quark hire someone to strangle him – that way his body will be unmarked for desiccation . Quark is shocked and says they are not Klingon s . Brunt tells Quark that this is personal . Brunt tells Quark that he considers him a menace to Ferengi society , citing the time he protected Quark ' s mother from an audit and secretly settling a strike at his bar . He loathes Quark for being a philanthropist . He doesn ' t gouge his customers as much as a Ferengi should . Selling medicine to Bajoran refugees has made him a generous humanitarian who has gone " Starfleet " . All of this gives other Ferengi a bad name . Quark begs that he can reform – that he can gouge his customers more and revoke his employee ' s vacation time . Brunt is disgusted by Quark ' s giving his employees vacation time and proceeds to start to leave the room . Quark cuts him off and tries to make another deal with him – surely there is another accommodation that Quark can make besides suicide ? Brunt tells him the only way out is to break the contract . He wonders if Quark is Ferengi enough to keep the contract and hopes that he will break it . He wants to see Quark ' s assets sold to the lowest bidder , his mother begging on the street , and to have Quark cut off from all contact with his people . Brunt says that Quark is a disease , and that it is his job to cut him off . Miles helps Keiko to a chair in their quarters . Keiko tells Miles that she has invited Kira over for dinner . The two agree that even seeing Kira every day would not be enough time for them to spend with their unborn child . She expresses frustration at having to make appointments to see her own child . Neither of them knows what to do . Quark visits Garak ' s shop . He is busy helping Morn and informs Quark that his pants will not be ready for another week . Quark tells him he is there in order to hire him as an assassin . Garak feigns ignorance and says that before he was a tailor he was a gardener . Quark is not so easily dissuaded and tells him he still wants to hire him . Rom initially believes that Quark will have Brunt assassinated , but Quark reveals that he is the one that is to be killed . Act Four . Rom is upset about Quark ' s intentions to go through with the contract . Quark explains that he is like no one else in their family ; he is a Ferengi businessman . He will go through with the contract . His life is about his business and that means that he follows the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition , and he will not stop following them if they are inconvenient . He is confident that if he continues to follow the Rules that he will find himself in the Divine Treasury after his death . Because he will have died the way he lived : as a Ferengi . He and Garak then leave to discuss the method of his death . Kira visits Keiko and O ' Brien to show them how much the baby is kicking . Kira is concerned but Keiko tells Kira that this is good , and that she thought Molly would kick her way of out . Keiko thanks Kira for sharing this with them . The two discuss the differences between Human and Bajoran pregnancies , and the fact that they do not know what Kira ' s symptoms will be because the baby is Human . Bajorans do not get morning sickness , but instead suffer from uncontrollable sneezing . Miles gets Kira a special pillow for her lower back . They invite her to remain for dinner and initially Kira does not want to impose . But Keiko insists that since Kira is carrying her baby she is now family and that besides dinner , the O ' Briens also want to make a proposal . Quark is eating dinner at the bar . Garak sneaks up behind him and breaks his neck . Quark walks over , and it becomes apparent that the dead Quark is only a hologram . Quark objects to the loud noise his neck makes when it is broken . Garak objects that is was not that loud . They are running out of options because Quark objects to all the methods that Garak has suggested ( he couldn ' t be disintegrated because he needed his body , the disruptor ruined Quark ' s clothing , the knife was too savage , nerve gas smelled bad , hanging took too long , and Quark would not willingly eat poison ed food ) . Garak comments that Quark does not seem to want to die , to which Quark objects that he just doesn ' t want to see it coming . Garak promises that Quark will never know what hit him . A jittery Quark heads to bed while trying to stave off death by yelling he won ' t be surprised before he enters his room . He quickly falls asleep and awakes in what looks like the Divine Treasury . Act Five . The first Grand Nagus , Gint ( who looks suspiciously similar to Quark ' s brother Rom ) , comes to him and Quark realizes that he is dreaming . The Nagus ( or at least Quark ' s conscience ) tells Quark that he must break the contract . Quark asks how he can walk away from the Rules . To this , Gint explains that when he authored the Rules of Acquisition , he called them such as a marketing ploy , and considers them more like " suggestions " . Gint explains that Quark is having this dream because he is looking for permission to break the contract . Quark realizes if Gint came to him in a dream and told him to break the contract , then it would be acceptable . Brunt then appears , and the three of them argue until Brunt begins strangling Quark , who wakes up in his sleep with his own hands around his throat . The next day Quark refuses to honor the contract and Brunt smiles , as Quark has proved himself to be just another failure in a long line of weak - lobed Ferengi . However , Quark threatens that if he ever returns to his bar , he will never leave . Brunt immediately revokes Quark ' s business license , and slaps legal documents on the walls preventing any Ferengi business to continue and seizes all of his assets . Quark is left with no other choice but to close the bar immediately and indefinitely , and is forced to ask his customers to leave . Kira arrives at the O ' Briens ' quarters where she has agreed to live for the duration of the pregnancy . Kira tells Molly that she is her aunt Kira and that Molly is welcome to play in her room anytime . Quark sits in the bare area on the Promenade where his bar used to be , having been left with nothing , not even the shirt on his back which needs to be returned later . Rom tries to cheer him up by offering Quark some of his old clothes , but to no avail . However Julian enters with a crate of drinks , claiming that a patient gave them to him as a gift , and , as he cannot accept them , he is willing to give them to Quark . Then Jadzia arrives with a dozen glasses she was given as a gift by her sister that she claims are too ugly to keep . Captain Sisko arrives and asks Quark if he can store several sets of tables and chairs from structural repair on level 2 of the habitat ring in the area , since it ' s currently free . Quark can scarcely believe what is happening , as the crew and residents start bringing in everything he needs to continue running the bar . Rom reminds his brother that Brunt didn ' t take " all " of his assets away , as Quark has apparently earned the loyalty and respect of many aboard the station . Despite being broke , Quark is left to ponder the thought that " friends " may be the most valuable asset of all . Overwhelmed by his friends showing their support he attempts to thank them , but is literally speechless . Memorable quotes . " " So . . . what you ' re telling me is . . . Major Kira ' s going to have my baby ? " " " " It ' s as if I have to remind her she ' s pregnant ! " " " " Yeah . I guess the extra weight , the morning sickness , the mood swings , the medical examinations . . . they aren ' t reminders enough . " " " " I needed another womb for the baby , and the only two other people on board were Major Kira and me . " " " " I think you made the right choice , doctor . " " " " I ' m dying ! " " " " I have Dorek Syndrome . " " " " But that ' s incurable ! " " " " That ' s right ! Which explains the " dying " part ! " " " " But Dorek Syndrome , it ' s so rare ! " " " " It strikes only one out of every five million Ferengi . I finally beat the odds . " " " " Have Doctor Bashir examine you when he gets back from the Gamma Quadrant ! " " " " Bashir ? How good could he be ? He doesn ' t even charge . " " " " We ' re not Klingons . We ' re businessmen . " " " " I want to hire you . Not as a tailor . As an assassin . " " " " I don ' t know what you ' re talking about . " " " " Oh yes you do . You weren ' t always a tailor . " " " " You ' re right . I used to be a gardener . Now if you have something you want weeded , you let me know . " " " " I don ' t want you to kill Brunt , I want you to kill " me " . " " " " Wait a minute . You can ' t do this . I thought you were going to break the contact . " " " " What are the key words there ? " You thought " . " " " " Garak , let ' s talk about death ! " " " " Snapping vertebrae is out . " " " " We ' re running out of options . . . You don ' t want to be vaporized because you need a body . The disruptor ruined your clothing , the knife was too savage , the nerve gas smelled bad , hanging took too long and poison . . . What was wrong with poison ? " " " " It doesn ' t work ! If I know the food is poisoned , I won ' t eat it . " " " " For a man who wants to kill himself you are strangely determined to live . " " " " I ' m going to die , don ' t you worry about that , I just want to find the right way . " " " " Right way ? " " " " I don ' t want to see it coming . Or hear it or feel it or smell it . I just want to go on with my life and then [ snaps his fingers ] I ' m dead . " " " " Ah , you want to be surprised ! " " " " You have my word . You ' ll never know what hit you . " " " " Would " you " buy a book called " Suggestions of Acquisition " ? " " " " I knew it . You ' re just like the rest of your family : weak - lobed degenerates . Another loser in a long line of failed Ferengis . " " " " Look , I ' ve broken the contract , so do your job : take my assets , revoke my Ferengi business license , do whatever you have to do , then get out . And if I ever see you walk into my bar again . . . " " " " Yes ? " " " " . . . you won ' t walk out . " " " " May I have your attention , please ? Brunt , FCA . As of this moment , no further Ferengi commerce may be conducted in this bar ! No Ferengi may be employed by this bar , no Ferengi may eat or drink in this bar , and no Ferengi . . . " no " Ferengi may do business with " THAT MAN " ! Confiscation of assets will begin immediately . " " " " Ladies and gentlemen , this bar is closed until further notice . Thank you for your patronage . " " " " Look at them , brother . And you thought you had no assets . " " " " Sisko , Dax , Bashir , Morn ? " They ' re " my assets ? " " " " To name a few . " " " " I guess you ' re right . . . I need a drink . " " Links and references . 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