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Ergo A multi-eyed little blob that was Quark's pet, paralleling Pinback and the Alien from the movie Dark Star.Appeared only in the pilot but is mentioned in at least one later episode. The perfect example of a communications bureaucrat, she is more concerned about correct charges for lasergrams than about saving the Galaxy. Interface ( Misty Rowe) A four-armed alien woman who functioned as an operator for all interstellar calls.His trademark sign-off is 'The galaxy, ad infinitum!' He is detached from day-to-day events, has a low tolerance for failure, and a tendency to come up with bizarre tasks for Quark to accomplishВ - usually at the worst possible time. He is usually seen as a disembodied head with an enormous cranium. The Head ( Alan Caillou) is the being to whom Palindrome answers.There is another member of his species on Perma 1 called Dook whose masses of long hair resemble brown and red wool. He often provides a foil for Palindrome's concerns about his job and about Quark, both of whom he comes to for dating advice. His voice is a xylophone-like electronic warble. Dink is a diminutive and very hairy alien aide to Palindrome who resembles a curly blond version of Cousin Itt.His first name, 'Otto', is a palindrome, as is his middle name, 'Bob.' Palindrome seems to take a special delight in making Quark's life miserable, although deep down he does seem to have a certain well-hidden affection for Adam. He is a stereotypical bureaucrat who gives new definition to the word 'petty'В - a nightmare tyrant to his underlings and a quivering toady towards his superiors. Otto Bob Palindrome ( Conrad Janis) is in charge of Perma One, and gives Commander Quark his assignments.Andy ( Bobby Porter) is a not-at-all-human-looking robot, made from spare parts, with a cowardly and neurotic personality.

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Kelton died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning on November 27, 1978, only seven months after the series was cancelled. He frequently finds the behavior of the rest of the crew difficult to understand, his curiosity leading him to have philosophical debates about the human condition with Quark, usually at the most inopportune moments. While he is extremely intelligent, observant and always calmly rational, he is incapable of any sort of human emotion, including both fear and tact. He is of completely human appearance although he tends to shrivel up when he gets dehydrated. Ficus Pandorata ( Richard Kelton) is Quark's Spock-like science officer and is a 'Vegeton', a member of a race of sentient plant life ( Ficus pandorata or pandurata is better known as Ficus lyrata, the fiddle-leaf fig).He/she will frequently switch personalities with no warning, and usually at the worst possible time. The gender confusion manifests in a split personality-when Gene's macho male side is in control, he is gung-ho, angry and violent with a pathological hatred of the Klingon-like 'Gorgons', while the much more mild-mannered Jean personality is stereotypically feminine and demure, pacifistic and a bit of a coward. Gene/Jean ( Tim Thomerson) is a 'transmute', a humanoid being with a complete set of both male and female chromosomes.Quark, when describing his crew, explains that he is in love with Betty, but he is not sure which one. They have a tendency to speak in perfect unison and have exactly the same thought at exactly the same time. One of them is a clone of the other, but each claims the other one is the clone. They are completely identical, with identical red-hot passions for Quark. The Bettys (Cyb and Patricia Barnstable) are the navigators and pilots of the ship. He is skilled and competent, but extraordinarily unlucky. Adam Quark ( Richard Benjamin) is a Commander who longs for a glamorous, important assignment and ends up collecting trash instead.Three of the episodes were direct parodies of Star Trek episodes.

In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost in Space, Buck Rogers, and Flash Gordon. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting 'space baggies' with his trusted and highly unusual crew. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226.