“Who Mourns for Morn” is episode twelve of season six of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
In Quark’s bar, Odo asks Morn to do something about a shipment of his that is rotting in a cargo bay. However, this is not Morn but a hologram. Morn has been away on business for the past two weeks. Quark replaces Morn with a hologram when he’s away, because people expect to see Morn in the bar, and the last time Morn was away on business, Quark’s sales dropped by nearly 5%. When Odo makes a comment about the hologram not talking, Quark makes a comment about the real Morn never shutting up (Morn has never been heard to utter a single word in the entire series), and that he would take him over the real thing any day. Morn has never been heard to utter a single word. Then Dax enters, sees Morn and reacts badly. Sisko follows; Morn’s ship was caught in an ion storm. He’s dead.
A wake is held for Morn; he apparently was a sparring partner for Worf and Dax said she had a crush on Morn. The wake is held at Quark’s, who makes sure he profits from the affair – Morn died before paying the month’s bar tab. To ensure that the bar does not suffer from Morn’s death, he asks that Morn’s chair is never empty. As a tribute to Morn. Morn also left everything to Quark in his will. Except he was broke. Odo suggests that Morn’s assets were tied up in inventory. Which is just overly ripe beets. Morn also didn’t have any real possessions. Except a cheesy Earth picture and a mud bed. Which happens to contain an attractive woman. Morn’s ex-wife, apparently, according to her.
Said ex-wife, Larell, says that Morn wanted Quark to have everything that was once his (including her, by her insinuation). Quark points out that Morn didn’t have much; she mentions that he had a retirement fund – he won 1,000 bricks of gold-pressed latinum in a lottery. Which is a lot of money. Perhaps the ex-wife wants the money, not Quark, but doesn’t know where Morn kept it?
Quark starts looking for the money, and obsessing over it, going into rhapsodies about liquid latinum, but he can’t find it on the station. Dax is suspicious and doesn’t trust Larell; Quark doesn’t trust her either. Quark goes looking for Morn’s assets, but there are others looking for them, former business associates claiming that Morn owed them money.