Contract A contract was a formal agreement between two or more entities . It legally binds all parties involved to fulfill their part of the contract . Contracts could be written down or agreed upon verbally . After capturing Lieutenant Commander Data in 2366 and attempting to add him to his collection , Kivas Fajo remarked to the android that , " " You belong in Starfleet about as much as I belong in a verbal contract . " " ( ) The Contract of Ardra was a contract detailing a supposed agreement between the people of Ventax II and Ardra , in which she would grant them a thousand years of peace , after which she would enslave the entire population . In response to the idea of enslavement , an impostor posing as Ardra stated that it was " " just a standard contract with an unusually long term . " " During a discussion of the matter by the staff of the , the possibility was considered that the impostor might be Q , but Captain Jean - Luc Picard noted that Q wouldn ' t be bothered with contracts . He later speculated that the contract was devised by the planet ' s leaders at the time as a means to create a myth that would save their dying planet . ( ) As part of an effort to mediate a family dispute between Lieutenant Worf and his son Alexander Rozhenko in 2368 , Counselor Deanna Troi proposed a ' contract ' in which the two would agree to responsibilities to each other . Lwaxana Troi doubted the efficacy of such an agreement , noting that " " Contracts are usually between people who don ' t really trust one another . " " ( ) In 2375 , Ezri Dax cited the multitude of contracts , invoice s , balance sheet s and shipping order s as the reasons why she never went into her family ' s business . ( ) In 2378 , The Doctor entered into a contract with Broht & Forrester to publish his holo - novel , " Photons Be Free " . After the work was published without The Doctor ' s consent , Lieutenant Commander Tuvok suggested that since Ardon Broht maintained that The Doctor was not a person , it could be argued that the hologram therefore lacked the capacity to enter into the original contract . This option was not exercised , as it would mean conceding that The Doctor was not a person . ( ) The Hazari prided themselves on completing a Bounty hunter contract . ( ) In Ferengi society . In Ferengi society , contracts were often employed to close business deals . They could also be used to trick unsuspecting individuals into agreeing upon things they would normally not do if they failed to read the entire contract . For both reasons , Rule of Acquisition # 17 stated that " A contract is a contract is a contract , " stressing the utmost importance of fulfilling one ' s end of the bargain in Ferengi culture . As another " Rule of Acquisition " stated , " Workers are rungs on the ladder to success . Don ' t be afraid to step on them . " To this end , all Ferengi contracts forbade the worker from taking time off for vacation . ( ) Under Ferengi law , contracts were not final until they were signed . On one occasion , Quark was stuck with a shipment of self - sealing stem bolt s he did not need and was desperate to get rid of them . He found a young woman whose family needed them , but before they signed the contract , Quark let her take her time and give him oo - mox . This delay ended up costing him the deal when Grand Nagus Zek , under the influence of the Bajoran Prophet s , told the woman where her family could buy the stem bolt s at a significantly cheaper price . ( ) Once signed , any Ferengi who broke a contract with another Ferengi lost their business license from the Ferengi Commerce Authority , also known as the FCA . Their assets were then liquidated and they were forbidden from doing business with other Ferengi . However , the authority of the FCA did not reach beyond the limits of the Ferengi Alliance , and someone who had suffered this punishment could do business however they pleased in non - Ferengi parts of the galaxy . ( ) Quark , like many Ferengi , often slipped dubious clauses into contracts . The fine print of the contract one of his dabo girl s had to sign stated on Page 21 , Subsection B , Paragraph 12 that having sex with him was part of the job requirement . He also once claimed that , per the agreement in the contract , anything which went wrong at his bar was his brother Rom ' s fault . Another clause in his contracts specifically stated that " satisfaction [ was ] not guaranteed " . ( ) He not only inserted dubious clauses into his contracts but was also willing to take on dubious deals as long as the price was right . When a visitor to Deep Space 9 who was obsessed with Major Kira Nerys asked him to create a holosuite program for him with a simulation of the Major in it , he agreed - for a substantial price . However , when Kira found out about the ploy , she switched the program so Quark ' s head would be on her body when the client saw her . ( ) Quark was once diagnosed with a fatal disease called Dorek Syndrome and decided to auction off his vacuum - desiccated remains on the Ferengi Futures Exchange . An anonymous bidder offered 500 bars of gold - pressed latinum , and Quark eagerly accepted the offer . However , when he found out he did not have Dorek Syndrome , Brunt ( the bidder ) still wanted to collect on the deal . This was Brunt ' s chance to ruin Quark once and for all , one way or another ; when he finally broke the contract , he was blacklisted by the FCA . ( ) After the incident with the FCA , Quark begged the Grand Nagus , who was dating Quark ' s mother Ishka at the time , to reinstate his business license . However , Zek refused to do so , as Quark had broken a contract after all . ( )