Who Mourns for Morn?
| "Who Mourns for Morn?" | |
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| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | Victor Lobl |
| Written by | Mark Gehred-O'Connell |
| Featured music | David Bell |
| Production code | 536 |
| Original air date | February 4, 1998 |
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"Who Mourns for Morn?" is the 136th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the 12th episode of the sixth season.
The crew is shocked to learn that Morn (Mark Allen Shepherd) has been killed in an ion storm. True to form, Quark (Armin Shimerman) sees an opportunity for profit and throws a memorial party at his bar. Sisko (Avery Brooks) interrupts with surprising news — Morn has left Quark his entire estate. Although Morn's financial records indicate that he was broke, Quark searches Morn's quarters for hidden assets. Instead, he finds Morn's ex-wife, Larell (Bridget Ann White), who tells Quark about Morn's hidden retirement fund of a thousand bricks of gold-pressed latinum. This episode clarifies for the first time that latinum is a fluid which is customarily "pressed" into gold to make it easier to handle; the gold itself, which, unlike latinum, can easily be replicated, is worthless by 24th-century standards.
Quark offers Larell ten percent to keep her out of his hair, but he is unable to find the loot. He returns to his quarters to find two alien brothers, Krit (Brad Greenquist) and Nahsk (Cyril O'Reilly). Claiming to be Morn's business associates, they tell Quark that Morn owes them all of the latinum. Quark tries to bargain when Nahsk smashes one of Morn's paintings over Quark's head. The two parties finally agree to a figure of fifty percent, and the brothers leave. Moments later, Quark discovers a storage locker claim slip woven into what's left of the painting.
Quark opens the locker, but finds only one brick of latinum inscribed with a message that the rest is in a Bank of Bolias. He hurries home to send for the rest of his inheritance, but another stranger, Hain (Gregory Itzin), emerges from the shadows.
Claiming to be a security officer from Morn's home planet, Hain explains that Morn is a prince, and that his latinum is the property of the royal family. When he learns Larell is on the station, he offers Quark a reward for her capture. Later, Quark finds Larell waiting for him in his quarters. Krit and Nahsk soon show up, followed by Hain. Quark learns that their stories are all lies — the four of them robbed the central bank of Lissepia (aka the Lissepian Mother's Day heist) with Morn, who ran off with all of the money. With the statute of limitations now expired, they came to collect, and now that Quark has sent for the latinum, they no longer need him.
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