( DS9: ' Family Business') His father advised him against leaving Ferenginar, noting that he could make a profit at home, but Quark ignored his advice, opting instead to follow the 75th Rule of Acquisition – ' Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum' – and left Ferenginar. Quark left his home quickly upon achieving the Age of Ascension in 2351, while Rom stayed on for ten more years. Ishka later recalled that when Quark was a lobeling, he used to be ' such a miserable child.' ( DS9: ' Profit and Lace') Quark complained once that while Rom got a latinum tooth sharpener, he had to make do with wooden chew sticks. Quark grew to resent his mother, while his brother Rom, always a more compassionate sort, tended to take her side and always seemed in her good graces. Quark himself grew up being teased by other children because his mother did not behave like other Ferengi females and, for example, wouldn't chew his food for him and she talked to strangers. Like all good Ferengi children, Quark idolized his father who tended to blame all his financial failures on his domineering wife.

And if there's anything I can't stand, it's listening to you mumble.' ( DS9: ' Prophet Motive') And,' Rom recalled years later to his brother, ' when you think, you mumble. How's that for adding something that can be discussed? It's even cross DS9/PIC.Quark was born on Ferenginar to Keldar and Ishka he had one younger brother, Rom.Īs children, Quark and Rom roomed together, much to his own and Rom's annoyance, particularly because, Quark used to ' stay up late every night, plotting and scheming. He's probably living on the 24th/25th Century version of Mar-a-Lago or whatever. And in 2399, he probably has the Business Chain he always dreamed of. Then you'd start to see Quark's bars popping up all over the place. So no one probably cared about the wormhole or the station after the war, business might've looked like it was going down, Quark was without his frenemy/nemesis (Odo), and he just decided it was time to move on. With a peace treaty, it was probably agreed that ships from the Alpha Quadrant stay out of the Gamma Quadrant, and DS9 lost its strategic importance after the war.

And then there's the wormhole leading into the Gamma Quadrant going into Dominion Space. After he got over the shock of Rom being Nagus, he probably exploited that to its maximum advantage. I don't think he stayed on DS9 too long either. Edited to avoid anything potentially spoilery. I guess I might as well repost something I shared with my brother elsewhere while were talking about Quark franchising his business after DS9.

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