It is rather odd that in the midst of the series major story arc, the writers would do an episode featuring the character we know the least about. Still it is an amusing episode since it turns into a quark adventure very quickly.Morn dies and eaves everything he owns to Quark. Several criminal associate’s of Morn’s show up to tangle with Quark over a hidden fortune Morn left behind. Quark busts his lobes to recover the money. After he does, he discovers Morn faked his death and enlisted quark to finding the money because he knew the Ferengi would not rest util he did so.
“Who Mourns for Morn?” is a light-hearted, fun episode. It is strange to see another Quark episode so soon after the far superior “The Magnificent Ferengi,” but I cannot complain too much. There is no new ground broken--seriously, how often has Quark gotten involved with shady crooks and come out the good guy?--but there is nothing bad about the episode, either.
A couple points of interest. One, at Morn’s wake, Quark makes a speech that morn’s barstool should never turn cold in his honor and pulls a Bajoran over to sit on it. That Bajoran is played by Mark Allan Shepard, who also plays Morn. Second, Morn makes 92 appearances over seven seasons of DS9, yet never speaks in any episode, including this one.
He dos barf here, though, and that is kind of gross.
Rating: *** (out of 5)
