(On the Klingon homeworld, on a slightly shabby couch, Quark is hypo'd awake)
QUARK:
What? What happened? Where am I?
TUMEK: (ancient family retainer)
You are on Kronos.
QUARK:
Kronos? The Klingon homeworld.
TUMEK:
You are in the ancestral home
of what used to be known as
The House of Kozak.
QUARK:
What's it called now?
TUMEK:
Kozak died without a male heir.
The House no longer has a name.
QUARK:
What about Kozak's brother, D'Ghor?
TUMEK:
That pahtk's name is not spoken in This House.
He is no brother to Kozak.
His family has been a sworn enemy of this house for seven generations.
QUARK:
But he came to DS Nine.
He told me
TUMEK:
What he told you were lies.
He wanted you to say that Kozak had died in honourable combat
so that no special dispensation would be granted.
QUARK:
I don't understand.
TUMEK:
If Kozak had died in an accident and left no male heir,
the Council might have decided that this was an unusual situation
and granted special dispensation.
That might have allowed Grilka to become head of the family even though she's a woman.
But if Kozak died in an honourable fight,
and was simply defeated by a better opponent,
then no dispensation would have been granted,
and without a male heir the House will fall.
GRILKA:
That hasn't happened yet, Tumek,
and there is still time to prevent it from ever happening.
(She offers a robe to Quark.)
GRILKA:
Put this on.
QUARK:
Why?
GRILKA:
Because if you do not, I will kill you.
TUMEK:
I beg you, consider what you do here, mistress.
GRILKA:
The decision is made.
There is no other choice.
(Quark struggles into the robe and Grilka takes his hand.)
GRILKA:
Go'Eveh lu cha wabeh.
Mo ka re'Chos.
TUMEK:
Repeat my words Go'Eveh lu cha wabeh.
To va re'Luk.
QUARK:
Let me ask just one
(Grilka puts a knife to Quark's throat)
GRILKA:
Repeat the words.
QUARK:
Go'Eveh lu cha wabeh to va re'Luk.
TUMEK:
Ghos ma'lu Kah!
(Grilka kisses Quark, then spits.)
TUMEK:
It is done.
QUARK:
What's done?
TUMEK:
The ceremony is complete.
You are husband and wife.
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