Deep Space 10 Facilities: Difference between revisions

Also known as the ''Comm Quad'' — or far more informally, the ''Kumquat'' — is the section of the station that most civilian businesses operate from. Despite the dilapidated state of the station, the Comm Quad is relatively picturesque as it encircles the station's central arboretum, offering each of the businesses a lush and verdant view. Although mostly populated by civilians, it falls under the governance of the station's Starfleet administration.

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===Food and Drink===

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!style="background:#343434" colspan="2"|<font color=#ffffff>Burnt Cow House</font>

! style="width:125px;" | Commercial Quadrant

| align="left"| A retro-style hamburger joint found on the Comm Quad, part of a chain run throughout the Alpha quadrant. The burgers taste almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a burger one could get from, say, a {{ma|Burgerland}} fast food restaurant from 21st century [[Earth]], featuring vat-grown food.

===Health and Fitness===

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| align="left"| The Gym is exactly what it claims to be, and is owned and run by Sakic Urdin, an [[Antican]] businessman, with his four members of staff. Located in the Comm Quad, it is open to both Starfleet and civilian personnel, and offers a variety of facilities, including fully-featured changing facilities, cardiovascular and weight-training equipment, and sparring/fighting rings.

| align="left"|Unusually eschewing a location in the Comm Quad, and instead opting for a spot near the docks, The Pit is a rough-and-tumble facility, a bar with a fighting ring as centrepiece. There are multiple pits where contestants descend to face the occupants of a different pit in unarmed physical combat via holographic simulation, to the cheers and jeers of the other patrons.  

While the entire thing is perfectly legal (and surprisingly safe, despite all appearances to the contrary), the ambiance of such goes out of its way to imply that neither is true. The rarely-seen [[Bynar]] owners have even requested that Federation personnel do not attend in uniform, as it sends quite the wrong message to the attendees.

| align="left"|Located near the bottom of one of DSX's less populated sections, Starfleet engineers believe this section was once a large turboshaft that, before the station was abandoned by its original owners, may have served as a cargo lift to a section of the station that was apparently jettisoned. Now sealed off and essentially useless, a Caitian civilian has purchased it and converted it into a climbing gym. Its four walls are covered in different climbing routes, and gravity can be modified on each wall to provide a larger or lesser challenge.

===Transportation and Security===

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!style="background:#343434" colspan="2"|<font color=#ffffff>PLPC</font>

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| align="left"| Operating near the docks, the Perfectly Legitimate Protection Company (PLPC), is run by two Cardassians, [[Deep_Space_10_Personal_NPC_roster|Mara Joset and Nala Delak]], although they hire other species without discrimination. The exact size of their operation is currently unknown, and they provide perfectly legal armed escorts of both ship and individual variety (although not on the station itself, or in the station's immediate vicinity). The rooms they have rented on DSX are purely for sales, relaxation, and recuperation of employees injured while on Perfectly Legitimate Operations.  

Their name in Cardassian roughly translates to "''the gentle touch of your lover who does not yet realize that you know that he has betrayed you''".