(well, while alex is off doing business with quark amid drinking up his stockpile of shirley temple ingredients while waiting for the meeting to start and shrav is waiting to take off...i don't know what the hell i'm supposed to do)
alex: you can contact me on this comm frequency *he pulls out an isolinear rod and sets it on the counter* just make sure that any other ferengi you get involved keep some of those more...exploitative rules on a tight leash - i'm not your typical customer, and i won't be exploited like one *his eyes narrow and he leans…
alex: i need resources - tritanium, iridium, rodinium, thallium, naquadah, duranium, some others; i have mining operations extracting all those resources, but the demand is far exceeding the supply...if i'm going to assist in fighting this war, i need those resources - lots of them if you can arrange a steady supply, i can…
alex: maybe in the future...how about a business opportunity right now? *he slaps a few more slips on the counter and grabs the glass, taking a drink from it*
alex: it wouldn't help - the hur'q aren't coming through the wormhole like the dominion did...they were already here also...rule 62 *he picks his drink back up and chugs the rest of it* refill?
alex: i'm not a changeling, before you do ask...well, not like odo or the dominion founders, nor am i a chameloid *he says as he grabs the drink and sips on it* i'm a lycanthrope, or in more common parlance, a werewolf - a creature from earth mythology that is basically a human that can shapeshift into an anthropomorphic…
alex: you wouldn't remember me - i wasn't in this form at the time *he grabs the drink and drops the appropriate amount of latinum on the counter to pay for it*
*alex's left eyebrow (the same one over which the clawmark scars are present) arches* quark...i remember you - i met you briefly some 40 years ago just before i transferred to voyager for its badlands S&R trip...missed the entire dominion war because of it don't know yet if that was a good thing or bad...and a shirley…
*alex walks up to the bar and glances up at the ferengi briefly before glancing over the stock...then snaps back to the ferengi* you're...not who you're supposed to be - what happened to hadron?
*and alex heads straight for quark's to see what's in stock that he can actually tolerate, expecting to see the usual ferengi bartender whose name his controller has forgotten*
alex: and thank you for taking your job back...i really didn't like that guy who replaced you - just being near him made me feel like i had to scour myself raw afterwards
alex: so what do we do about the hur'q attacks in the meantime? they're all over the galaxy and we can't be everywhere at once - even I can't be everywhere at once, and only so many worlds are currently protected by planetary shields and defense grids
about time someone does something about that...while you're at it, how about removing the word s.crew from the censor as well...because seriously, it's a COMMON word that happens to also have a vulgar use as slang
alex: of course; they've already attacked my territory, so that's an act of war in my eyes and the eyes of the council...i'd like to know their motives for attacking, though, if they have any...if they're sapient, and therefore capable of reason, or just...a mindless, devouring swarm that needs to be exterminated
alex: i've been a member of section 31 since before there was even a federation...how many of those 'accidents' do you think the organization has pulled off in the past 300+ years? of course my mind went there - i'm used to it and there is - the beacon of kahless in a binary star system just inside the federation's border…
alex: like j'mpok having a little 'accident'? i don't think that would work...first of all, that would probably throw the empire into a massive civil war, especially given recent...developments, and second of all, martok doesn't want the job back anyway, and i don't think my brother wants it either, nor do i think he even…
alex: so, great...aside from martok and any houses allied with him, we can basically count on NO support from the klingons...against their ancient foe methinks gre'thor will be seeing lots of new souls within the next few centuries
(probably something to do with it being the federation's fault they even awoke in such numbers to begin with - and therefore feeling it's a federation problem they don't need to get involved in - and their forces having been so badly depleted in multiple wars and skirmishes...as he's intimated several times in those story…
(does he even have the authority? even as chancellor, he doesn't control the houses - if any of them decide to devote forces, or if an individual member(s) decides to do so with their house leader's blessing, to the fight, he can't really stop them or declare them traitors for it)