Profit and Loss
A Cardassian ship that is experiencing major problems with it's life support systems arrives at the space station. Natima Lanf, the leader of the three people aboard the space ship, is an old acquaintance of Quark. She explains that her two companions are her students. Quark tries to get close to Natima. She is hostile at first but eventually warms up to the point that she is at least interested in rekindling what they had seven years before.
Garak warns Commander Sisko that it wouldn't be wise to help the three Cardassians as they are wanted by the Cardassian high command. Sisko helps the fugitive Cardassians, despite the warning, until he finds out that the Bejorans government wants to turn them over to the Cardassians as part of a prisoner exchange.
Quark scrambles and with some help first from Odo and later from Garak gets the three Cardassians off the space station just as a Cardassian warship arrives to take custody of the three Cardassians.
Thoughts
This is the third of 32 episodes of this show in which Garak appeared.
It might just be me but there was something about the way this episode was shot, the lighting, even the sound editing that felt off to me. I'm not sure what it was but it was very distracting.
This is not a favorite episode for me. Everything seemed to revolve around that Quark. I didn't find the Quark / Natima romance to be very convincing. Everything about this episode felt very by the numbers. It just didn't speak to me.
Notes
Natima was played by Mary Crosby. This is the only episode of this show in which she appeared.
This episode was written by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. This is the only episode of this show that either of them wrote.
This episode was directed by Robert Wiemer. This is the only episode of this show which he directed. He also directed eight episodes of The Next Generation.
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