Promenade The Promenade was a wide , multi - level commercial and service area at the center of starbase Deep Space 9 , serving as the hub for the station ' s civilian activities . Structure and functions . Layout . The Promenade comprised a large multi - level public space , with broad circular walkways extending in a full 360 degree ring around the upper levels of the station ' s central core . The upper and lower levels of the Promenade housed shops and station facilities accessible from the public walkways , and the upper level also provided a stunning view of the Bajoran wormhole and surrounding space through a series of tall viewports . Spiral staircases linked the various levels of the Promenade . Decoration was provided by colored banners hung from the ceiling , and the lower thoroughfare featured an aquarium , alien plant life and the skeleton of a strange alien creature ( possibly a Cardassian fish ) . Purpose . As a major thoroughfare , many visitors and station inhabitants progressed through the Promenade on their way from the docking pylon s , docking ring and habitat ring to the central core . Several airlock s provided pedestrian access to the Promenade from the docking and habitat rings , and numerous turbolift s linked the Promenade to all other parts of the station . As young boys , Jake Sisko and Nog often passed time perched on the edge of the Promenade ' s upper level , watching passengers of various ships disembarking at the airlocks below . Before Nog left to attend Starfleet Academy , he joked to Jake that they had spent 2 , 1 47 hours there . ( ) They were often moved on by Security Chief Odo , though he later revealed to Jake that it was Nog ( rather than Jake ) that he was chasing away . ( ) The Promenade also served as the primary public meeting place on Deep Space 9 , offering places to congregate and socialize , sit , eat , drink , play games , worship and shop . A number of essential station facilities were situated on the Promenade , including the security office , the infirmary , the Bajoran temple , and the assay office . ( ) There was also an information kiosk . ( ) Security . Odo ' s security office and the station ' s holding cells were located just off the Promenade , and Odo kept a close eye on the area ' s goings on . He did not allow weapon s on the Promenade , and the airlocks leading to it had built - in weapon detector s . ( ) The station ' s inhabitants were not allowed to sleep on the Promenade , and Odo scolded barfly Morn for doing so on one of the Promenade ' s couches on at least one occasion . ( ) Station regulation 1526 , Paragraph 7 , prohibited fund - raising on the Promenade without a license , under which authority Odo arrested Vedek Solis in 2374 . ( ) Odo took great pleasure in enforcing station regulations upon Quark , no matter how petty . In 2374 , Odo forced Quark to remove a new set of expensive backless bar stools because they infringed Station Regulation 2562 , Paragraph 4 ( " " All furniture intended for use on the Promenade must not pose a danger to public safety " " ) , and he also told Quark that one of his dabo wheels infringed Station Regulation 47 21 . ( ) Commercial facilities . The Promenade was a thriving commercial area . There were numerous retail outlets , including a range of shops and kiosks selling crafts and decorative items , such as Garak ' s Clothiers . The businesses on the Promenade were collectively represented by the Promenade Merchants ' Association , of which Quark was a member . ( ) Quark ' s Bar , Grill , Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade ( commonly known simply as " Quark ' s " ) was one of the largest and most popular attractions on the Promenade , and was centrally located with entryways on all levels . Quark ' s provided commercial holosuite s and various gambling tables , as well as a fully - stocked bar , freshly - made food and several replicator s . A rival bar and gaming establishment , Club Martus , operated briefly in 2370 . ( ) Other dining choices included a Klingon restaurant serving fresh Klingon delicacies , a Bajoran restaurant called the Celestial Cafe , and the Replimat , a quiet area with several tables and food replicators . A Bolian restaurant opened in 2372 , and by that year there also was a Vulcan restaurant . ( ) A kiosk selling Bajoran jumja stick s also operated on the Promenade . Promenade directory . The Promenade featured a free - standing directory that listed the shops and offices located there . The directory was written in six languages : English , Vulcan , Klingon , Ferengi , Bajoran and Cardassian . History . Terok Nor . Prior to the withdrawal of Cardassian forces at the end of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor in 2369 , the Promenade , and indeed the station , was a very different place . Under the name " Terok Nor " , the station served as a refinery for uridium ore , and the Promenade was often strewn with exhausted Bajorans who worked in the station ' s ore processing center , or who had managed to escape to the station seeking refuge from the labor camp s and uridium mines of the planet below . Few could afford private accommodation and most were dirty and hungry . The Promenade was divided by a gated fence that caged the Bajorans into a squalid ghetto area , and armed Cardassian officers patrolled the upper and lower levels to maintain order . The atmosphere was smoggy and the lighting poor . Several recognizable Promenade facilities existed during the Occupation , including Quark ' s , the Bajoran temple and the security office . There was also a chemist ' s shop . Quark sometimes hired Bajorans to perform menial tasks , and he sold black market goods to anyone who could pay . The security office was inhabited for part of the Occupation by a Cardassian chief of security named Thrax . He was succeeded by Odo , who was appointed by Gul Dukat to investigate the murder of the proprietor of the chemist ' s shop . Prior to this , Odo had become trusted by the Bajorans on the station to act as an impartial arbitrator in resolving petty disputes . Dukat assigned the Security Office space for him to use . The Cardassians were known to publicly execute Bajorans on the Promenade in order to serve as examples to their fellow countrymen and discourage disobedience . Dukat would often walk the Promenade to make his presence even more oppressively felt , and would choose Bajoran females to serve as comfort women for him and his officers ; there were numerous attempts on his life during such walks , though none succeeded . The Bajoran Resistance operated on the station during the Occupation . One covert method of arranging a meeting with a Resistance operative was to peruse the market stalls in the Bajoran sector of the Promenade and turn over a vase displayed there so that its base was facing upward . This signal was operated for years right under the Cardassians ' noses . ( ) Suspected collaborator Prylar Bek took his own life by hanging himself on the Promenade soon after the Kendra Valley Massacre during the Occupation , his suicide forming part of a political cover - up to protect the then Kai , Opaka . ( ) Transition to Federation control . In 2369 the Cardassians withdrew from Bajor , and Starfleet took over the operation of Terok Nor , rechristening it Deep Space 9 . The departing Cardassian officers ravaged the station before they left , and the Promenade was heavily damaged . Four Bajorans were killed trying to protect their shops . New station commander Benjamin Sisko persuaded Quark to stay on the station and re - open his bar , and soon afterward the Promenade was transformed into a bustling , happy , thriving place , filled with laughter and music . Within weeks , numerous shops and restaurants had opened , and , with the consent of Commander Sisko , Keiko O ' Brien opened a school there for the station ' s children . ( ) Under Federation control , shopowners did not have to pay for rent , maintenance , or power . ( ) Conflict and protest . Unfortunately , the Promenade has played host to numerous scenes of violence and discord over the years , as well as several deaths and suicides . An angry mob protested outside the Security Office in 2369 , demanding that Odo be tried for the murder of a Bajoran man named Ibudan . ( ) Later the same year , survivors of the Bajoran labor camp Gallitep gathered outside the Security Office while Aamin Marritza ( whom they mistakenly believed was the notorious war criminal Gul Darhe ' el ) was being held there . Kainon , a Bajoran petty criminal , later stabbed Marritza to death on the Promenade after he was released . ( ) Weeks later , the schoolroom was destroyed by an explosion after Vedek Winn Adami publicly criticized the secular teachings of Keiko O ' Brien . Neela , a member of the station ' s Bajoran engineering crew , subsequently disabled the weapon detectors on the Promenade and staged a failed attempt to assassinate Vedek Bareil Antos when he came to the destroyed schoolroom to promote understanding and co - operation . ( ) When the Alliance for Global Unity took over the station in early 2370 , the Promenade was one of the locations where Starfleet personnel fought the Alliance to regain control of the station . ( ) Later that year , Odo was lured into a trap formed from force field s on the Promenade so that he could be purged of a gas that had pervaded his body and caused him to lose control . ( ) In 2371 , Elim Garak detonated a micro - explosive device in his shop to blow it up , as a way of dragging Odo into an investigation into the assassination of a number of his former associates from the Obsidian Order . ( ) The shop was subsequently rebuilt . During the First Battle of Deep Space 9 in 2372 , the Promenade was boarded by Klingon troops armed with disruptor s and " bat ' leth s " . Bajoran and Starfleet security officers fought them off . ( ) Later that year , Vedek Porta murdered one of his fellow vedeks , Imutta , on the Promenade by pushing him from the upper level , after the Bajorans briefly returned to a caste system and Imutta refused to return to his family caste . ( ) Jadzia Dax was critically injured by Dukat in the Bajoran temple in 2374 while the latter was under the influence of a Pah - wraith . Jadzia later died in the infirmary , though the was saved . ( ) The Changeling Laas caused considerable disruption in 2375 when he assumed the form of fog and expanded to fill the floor of the Promenade . During a subsequent confrontation with a Klingon 24th provoked officers 001 | Klingon officer ] ] about the incident , Laas formed a long metallic sword to defend himself from attack and killed the Klingon by stabbing him . Quark told Odo that the height of the Dominion War was " " no time for a Changeling pride demonstration on the Promenade . " " ( ) Religious activity . Being at the center of the station ' s civilian activities and the location of the Bajoran temple , the Promenade inevitably became a focus of Bajoran religious activity . The Bajoran Gratitude Festival was celebrated in and around the Promenade on at least two occasions . ( ) The famous Bajoran poet Akorem Laan gave a speech on the Promenade advocating a return to the Bajoran caste system following his emergence from the wormhole and brief claim to be the true Emissary of the Prophets in 2372 . ( ) While experiencing a series of prophetic sacred visions in 2373 , Benjamin Sisko walked through crowds of Bajorans on the Promenade who had come to receive advice from the Emissary . ( ) The following year , Kai Winn Adami flooded the Promenade with chroniton particles in order to drive out a Prophet ( inhabiting the body of Kira Nerys ) and a Pah - wraith ( inhabiting the body of Jake Sisko ) that were locked in a battle there that threatened to destroy the station . Winn believed that her actions would avert the Reckoning , the prophesied Bajoran apocalypse . ( ) The Pah - wraiths re - emerged in 2375 , and following the collapse of the Bajoran wormhole and the disappearance of the Prophets , groups of Bajorans linked to the Cult of the Pah - wraiths began to congregate and chant on the Promenade . ( ) Gatherings and celebrations . The Promenade served as the primary communal social space on the station , and played host to a range of public performances and gatherings . A zero - gravity tumbling performance was staged there in 2373 , ( ) and Quark ' s sometimes featured live music ( ) or one of Quark ' s auctions . ( ) Jadzia Dax and Worf ' s wedding ceremony was performed in Quark ' s in 2374 , ( ) and the " End of the war / Farewell " party was held in Vic Fontaine ' s lounge in one of Quark ' s holosuites in 2375 . ( ) Several important political addresses were made on the Promenade , including a speech given by Li Nalas following his return from the Hutet labor camp in 2370 ( ) , and an appearance by First Minister Shakaar Edon in 2372 . ( ) " In 2372 of an alternate timeline created when Benjamin Sisko was killed aboard the USS " Defiant " , Sisko ' s memorial service was held on the Promenade . This timeline was erased from existence by subsequent action by the alternate Jake Sisko . " ( ) The Promenade was overrun with tribble s in 2373 , after Captain Sisko and his crew accidentally brought at least one of the creatures back from a time - traveling visit to the tribble - infested Deep Space Station K - 7 of 2268 . ( ) Dominion occupation . As Dominion forces flooded into the Alpha Quadrant in late 2373 , the crew of Deep Space 9 laid a field of self - replicating mine s around the entrance to the wormhole to stop any more Dominion ships from coming through . Their actions triggered the Second Battle of Deep Space 9 , during which Starfleet withdrew from the station and abandoned it to the Dominion . ( ) Dukat once again renamed the station Terok Nor , and it remained under Cardassian - Dominion control for around five months . Most civilians were evacuated from the station during this time , and this , combined with the presence of large numbers of Jem ' Hadar soldiers , gave the Promenade a much more militaristic ambiance . However , Quark ' s remained open and most other services on the Promenade were relatively unaffected by the change from Federation to Dominion control . It was certainly a far cry from the Promenade of Terok Nor during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor , so much so that Quark remarked : Odo ' s Bajoran security personnel were taken away , prompting him to reveal that he felt useless and couldn ' t even patrol the Promenade . However , Kira persuaded him to exert his influence over Weyoun to get the Vorta to reinstate his deputies . ( ) Vedek Yassim felt so strongly that Dominion occupation of the station should be opposed that she tied a noose around her own neck and jumped from the upper level of the Promenade , hanging herself in public protest . Yassim ' s suicide prompted Kira to form a resistance movement on the station , and Quark ' s was later the scene of a massive brawl between Cardassian and Jem ' Hadar officers triggered by the covert actions of the resistance . ( ) Empok Nor . The abandoned Cardassian station Empok Nor , essentially a duplicate of Terok Nor , also had a promenade . The promenade on Empok Nor was of similar overall layout and design , with multiple levels and a large central space akin to Quark ' s on Deep Space 9 . There was also an infirmary . Numerous members of Chief O ' Brien ' s work crew were killed and strung up on the promenade on Empok Nor during an engineering expedition in 2373 . A group of Ferengi , including Quark , Rom and Nog , later arranged a prisoner exchange on Empok Nor ' s promenade in order to rescue Ishka from the Dominion . Dukat established a base for the Cult of the Pah - wraiths on Empok Nor ' s promenade in 2375 . ( )