So Quark makes his brother a counter-offer: instead of expensive iron pills, what if Quark sold Rom some much, much more affordable gear wheel shaped iron ingots instead? Rom is excited and agrees. Quark goes to the storage and pilfers the gear wheels, handing them to Rom in exchange of an affordable compensation in gold-pressed latinum. Rom takes the gear wheels home to his son, who begins chewing and sucking on them, improving his dietary iron intake and averting a bad case on anemia.
Months pass. Cousin Kono returns to the station, having finally found a buyer. Going to inspect his stol…