Changes: Quark

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This page details Quark in the primary universe; for the Quark in the mirror universe see Quark (mirror); for the Quark in the First Splinter timeline ended by the Devidian temporal apocalypse, see Quark (1ST); for the Quark in all other alternate universes see Quark (alternates).

This character is a member of Quark's family.

Quark was a Ferengi male and the longtime owner and bartender of Quark's Bar, Grill, Embassy, Gaming House, and Holosuite Arcade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quark Enterprises, Inc., aboard the space station known as Terok Nor and, later, Starbase Deep Space 9.

In late 2376, his brother, Grand Nagus Rom, appointed Quark the Ambassador to Bajor, with Quark's bar serving as Ferengi Embassy. Quark also served a brief term as Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance when it was believed that Grand Nagus Zek had died; he was removed from office and Zek restored when it was revealed that this was a ruse by Zek to test his son.

Biography

Early life

As a youngster, Quark attended Hopawup Academy for Young Lobelings, and later Haryalevard Academy of Business Management. (DS9 reference: Legends of the Ferengi)

Quark left his home on Ferenginar in the year 2351, as soon as he reached his age of ascension. ^{[citation needed]}

At one point, Quark served as an apprentice to a Ferengi district sub-nagus, until a dalliance with the sub-nagus' sister (in which Quark forgot the 112th Rule of Acquisition) put Quark on the run from his former boss. (DS9 episode: "Playing God")

Terok Nor

Afterwards, feeling the need to put some distance between himself and Ferenginar, Quark served on a Ferengi freighter as ship's cook under Daimon Gart. Quark served under Gart until 2360, when his vessel made a delivery to the Cardassian ore-processing center on the space station Terok Nor in the Bajoran system. Quark, seeing the opportunity for profit by selling food (at reduced cost) to the Bajoran laborers and providing a place for the Cardassian soldiers stationed there to relax and unwind when off-duty, decided to stay.

After bribing the station's commander, Gul Skrain Dukat, with a brick of gold-pressed latinum in order to be allowed to stay, Quark opened Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade aboard the station. The establishment quickly grew from a little gambling post in one of the storefronts, to the largest and most successful business on the station's promenade.

By 2363, Quark's brother Rom and nephew Nog had moved to the station after Rom's ex-father-in-law, Dav, swindled Rom out of everything he owned leaving him only his son and the clothes on his back. Quark gave them both jobs at the bar. (TLE - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles)

In 2366, Quark, Rom and Nog were all exposed to a variation of the Double Helix virus, and were quarantined on the station until a cure was found. (TNG - Double Helix novel: Vectors)

Deep Space 9

In early 2369, the Cardassians withdrew from the Bajor sector. The Bajoran Provisional Government requested relief aid from the United Federation of Planets, and they took over the running of the station, renaming it Deep Space Nine. Quark, fearing that business was about to dry up on the station, prepared to leave. The station's new Federation commander, Benjamin Sisko, 'negotiated' a deal with Quark that convinced him to stay, much to the amusement of Quark's nemesis, station Chief of security Odo. (DS9 episode: "Emissary")

During the changeover from a Cardassian to Federation administration, Quark assumed that the Bajorans must have bribed the Federation in some way to get them to take control of Deep Space 9. He was deeply disgusted when he later learned that the Federation was there out of the goodness of their hearts. (DS9 novel: The Siege)

Quark was tricked by a Romulan officer, Katann, into testing a personal cloak device in the early 2370s. The device was only somewhat successful, and the Romulans gathered data on the side effects of the technology, pronouncing it unusable by members of their species due to dangerous radiation. Quark, in particular, was expected to be afflicted with severe diarrhea from his limited exposure. (DS9 comic: "Memoirs of an Invisible Ferengi")

In 2371, Quark bought a glerint of Self-sealing stembolts from a Ferengi named Flem. Quark arranged for the transport of the bolts to Starbase 201, but the bolts didn't arrive as scheduled. (DS9 - Strange New Worlds VII short story: "Infinite Bureaucracy")

In 2372, when war was briefly declared between Ferenginar and Bajor, Quark and Rom were interned at the Gallitep labor camp, where they endured hideous treatment at the hands of the camp's insane warden, Colonel Mitra.

After their escape from Gallitep, Quark and Rom traveled to Ferenginar with Captain Sisko aboard the USS Defiant, and successfully aided him in defusing the tense situation between the two worlds. (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule)

In 2376, after the Dominion War, Quark found himself developing an attraction to the station's new security chief Ro Laren. In April the station was attacked by a group of Jem'Hadar and Ro injured, falling from the stairs in his bar. Quark took the opportunity to play the hero and took her to the infirmary. He later sent Ro a bunch of Argelian flowers. (DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One)

Later that year Quark represented the Orion Syndicate in negotiations with the race claiming to be the ancient Iconians during the Gateways Crisis. Unbeknownst to the Orions, Quark was actually working with Bajoran security officer, Ro Laren, who succeeded in taking down the organization of the Orion criminal, Malic. Quark and Ro freed an Orion slave girl named Treir from servitude to Malic and she accepted Quark's offer of a job as a dabo girl. (DS9 - Gateways novel: Demons of Air and Darkness)

Ambassador Quark

In September of 2376, as Bajor prepared to join the United Federation of Planets, Quark was once again preparing to leave, as the Federation's economy was nominally money-less, leaving Quark with few options to obtain profit in the Bajoran system.

Quark had been pursuing a romantic relationship with Ro Laren, who also didn't feel as if she had any future in the Federation, and hoped that she would join him in whatever future endeavors came his way. This ceased to be an option when Starfleet took Ro back despite her checkered past.

Luckily for Quark, his brother Rom was the new Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. Rom opened diplomatic relations with Bajoran First Minister Asarem, and appointed Quark to be Ferenginar's Ambassador to Bajor, with his bar being sovereign Ferengi territory, allowing him to continue his business. (DS9 novel: Unity)

He returned to Ferenginar soon after to attend the birth of his niece, Bena, daughter of Rom and his Bajoran wife, Leeta. While he was there, he helped Rom fight off an attempt to have him removed from his Nagus-hood by Ferengi congressman, former FCA agent, Brunt. (DS9 - Worlds of DS9 - Volume Three novella: Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed)

Quark was still aboard Deep Space 9 in 2382 and was still an ambassador. He was in a romantic relationship with Captain Ro. (ST - Typhon Pact novels: Zero Sum Game, Rough Beasts of Empire)

When the station was destroyed in 2383, he managed to successfully evacuate. Later on during the construction of the new Deep Space 9, Quark indicated that he had every intent of reopening his bar, which also stood as the Ferengi Embassy to Bajor. Nog told construction teams to add in an extra holosuite or two for Quark. (DS9 novels: Plagues of Night, Raise the Dawn)

After the original Quark's was lost in the Destruction of Deep Space 9 in 2383, Quark relocated his business to Aljuli on Bajor, near to Bajoran Space Central. Once construction of the new Deep Space 9 was complete, Quark opened a new establishment there, and left the profitable Aljuli Quark's under former dabo girl Treir's management. The new Quark's opened for business a few days before the starbase was officially opened. (ST - The Fall novel: Revelation and Dust)

In 2385, Quark and Shmenge traveled to Wrigley's Pleasure Planet to speak to Ardon Broht about a new sequel to Vulcan Love Slave. (DS9 eBook: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found))

Alternate realities and timelines

In an alternate reality, Quark likewise ran a bar on Deep Space 9. In 2371, Federation and Dominion delegations met on DS9 to negotiate a treaty in response to the Dominion's peace overtures in 2371. However, during the talks, Odo was murdered with a phaser. Consequently, the negotiations broke down and the Dominion launched an attack on DS9. Although the Federation forces were eventually able to push the Jem'Hadar back through the Bajoran wormhole.

While posing as his murdered counterpart, the Odo of the primary universe told Quark that not even death could keep him from getting the goods on him. When Curzon Dax expressed doubt that Quark could have been complicity in his counterpart's murder, Odo acknowledged that this was probably true but that he enjoyed giving Quark the shock of his "misspent life" in any reality. Odo later determined that the alternate Major Kira Nerys was responsible for killing the other Odo as she feared the consequences for Bajor if the Federation and Bajor were to form an alliance. (DS9 comic: "The Looking Glass War")

In an alternate timeline in which the Cardassian Union did not withdraw from Bajor in 2369 and discovered the Bajoran wormhole, Quark was one of several Ferengi entrepreneurs who were allowed by the Cardassians to travel to the Gamma Quadrant in exchange for a small fee. In the process, he became the first Alpha Quadrant resident to make contact with the Dominion. The Detapa Council paid him off to keep both the discovery of the wormhole and the existence of the Dominion a secret. Consequently, Quark was able to achieve his long held ambition of buying a moon. He sold the bar on Terok Nor to his brother Rom.

In 2373, his peaceful existence was disturbed when a starhopper piloted by the Bajoran resistance fighter Kira Nerys, an acquaintance of his from Terok Nor, crash-landed on his moon. She requested his help and the two of them traveled to the Federation-Cardassian border aboard his private yacht, a trip which took several months. After the yacht was destroyed by the Cardassian warship the CDS Sladok, Kira and Quark were rescued by the USS Enterprise-E. The Enterprise crew was initially skeptical of their claims that high-ranking officials in the Federation, the Cardassian Union, the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire had been replaced by shapechangers from the Gamma Quadrant. However, Commander Worf came to believe that Quark was telling the truth as he saw genuine fear in his eyes.

Several days after that, Quark was present in the Palais de la Concorde when Federation President Jaresh-Inyo was exposed as a Changeling. He was later invited to participate in the USS Defiant's covert mission to infiltrate Romulus and expose Koval as a Changeling. However, he declined the offer, citing his desire to keep breathing and return to his moon. Although Captain Jean-Luc Picard believed that the latter would be difficult, Quark assured him that anything was possible with a large sum of latinum and that he had considerably more than a large sum. (TNG - Myriad Universes novel: A Gutted World)

Appendices

Connections

Starbase Deep Space 9 personnel and residents (original station)
station personnel	K. Adabwe • M. Ahzed • T. Aimatsu • Aleco V. • R. Alfonzo • Alle T. • Altman • Amran • K. Andrews • T. Ane • N. Aponte • J. Ashe • Aylam E. • J. S. Bashir • Battes A. • M. Bilecki • J. Blackmer • Bojja R. • P. Boudreaux • S. Bowers • Brooks • J. Broome • Cardok • Carlton • S. Carson • Cenn D. • J. Chao • J. Chavez • H. Collins • F. Cortez • Costello • Cryan • D. Cziraky • G. Davis • E. Dax • J. Dax • Devro • S. Douglas • M. Eddington • Eddon • Eric • Etana K. • Evik N. • Gaysd T. • Girani S. • Goodman • Gordimer • Greskrendtregk • Guerette • Hage • Hava R. • T. Jast • Jataq'qat • Jattera • S. Jonsson • Kabo • Kahrimanis • Kelly • Kira N. • V. Knezo • J. Kurland • Kurn • T. Kwiatkowski • S. ch'Larn • C. Ling • Marten • P. Matthias • McCormick • McEwian • K. Merimark • Mesk • Monyodin • T. Moore • Moru • I. Muckerheide • Munson • Nalan B. • J. Si Naran • Nedani I. • Nev R. • Nguyen • N'Heydor • Nog • M.E. O'Brien • Occino • Odo • D. Parks • Pertwee • H. Petersen • Phongsit • G. Primmin • Redac • Reis I. • ch'Rellen • K. Richter • Ro L. • Rom • G. Roness • Sanger • Sarish M. • A. Selzner • J. Senkowski • Setrin Y. • R. th'Shant • Shul T. • Shula S. • Simak • B.L. Sisko • Z. Slaine • J. Smith • N. Sthili • W. Stinson • M. Strang • Strek • C. Swannig • Tagana • S. Taran • S. Tarses • A. Taveras • Darl Tavros • Telnorri • P. Tenmei • Terek • T. ch'Thane • Tolland • M. Tomson • Gelia Torly • T'Peyn • Trulli • E. Vaughn • zh'Vesk • Vu K. • Wasa G. • Wayeh S. • D. Wilkens • Worf • Woros K. • Yamaguchi • D. Yarrow • Yevlin M.
station residents	Aluura • A. Wyoss • L. Arlin • Arios • Barys K. • Betenn B. • Betenn C. • Betenn K. • Bokat • Broc • Broik • Byla • Cadara • Capril • Chalan A. • Chon S. • Chram • Conpap • Dalba S. • Drak • Elvim • V. Fontaine • A. Fontana • Freyla • Frool • Gann • E. Garak • Grehm • Grimp • E. Grof • Hadron • Hatram N. • Hetik • Jas-qal • Jhakka • Kaga • Kalaw • Leeta • Londar P. • Maiki • Malor B. • Malor T. • Mardah • Martok • Mireh • Mo'Neke • Morn • M'Pella • Keiko O'Brien • Kirayoshi O'Brien • Molly O'Brien • Quark • Rasmus S. • Rhit • Sarda • S'taass • N. Sardopolous • Shul Aba • J. Sisko • T'Ara • Taran'atar • J. Tharen • Tigart H. • Tir R. • Tora Z. • Treir • Vissh • Kasidy Yates • Yelsi
Starbase Deep Space 9 personnel and residents (second station)
station personnel	Aleco V. • Allasar • E.g. Ansarg • J. Bashir • B. Becerra • V. Bixx • J. Blackmer • P. Boudreaux • J. Candlewood • Cardok • Cenn D. • H. Collins • J. Collins • B. Crusher • A. d'Arnaud • V. deGrom • O. Dellasant • G. Desjardins • Etana K. • S. Douglas • Hava R. • B. Herriot • E. Juarez • V. Knezo • S. ch'Larn • P. Matthias • K. Merimark • E. Minnar • Nog • M.E. O'Brien • D. Phlox • S. Ravid • K. Richter • Ro L. • N. Saygur • Shul T. • Z. Slaine • W. Stinson • T'Lune • P. Tenmei • L. Thorne • Valinar • Verlon • R.K. Viss • P. Walenista • Zhang S.
station residents	Altek D. • Aluura • Broik • Damas H. • Frool • Grimp • Kala M. • M'Pella • Orcam • Quark • Shmenge • Ulu L. • Zirk

Preceded by: Zek	Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance 2369	Succeeded by: Zek
Preceded by: Unspecified	Ferengi Ambassador to the Republic of Bajor (UFP) 2376–present	Succeeded by: incumbent

Grand Nagi of the Ferengi Alliance
Ferengi (primary universe)	Gint • Yost • Drik • Oblatis • Frek • Brolok • Oblat • Smeet • Untz the Invisible • Lifax • Twim • Zind • Zek • Quark • Rom
Ferenginar (mirror universe)	Azark • Narl

Background

Quark was played by Armin Shimerman from 1992 to 1999.

Appearances and references

Appearances

2360

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles

2363

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles

2365

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles

2366

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles

2367

TNG - Double Helix novel: Vectors

2368

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles

2369

ST - Terok Nor novel: Dawn of the Eagles
DS9 episode & novelization: Emissary (First appearance)
DS9 episode: "A Man Alone"
DS9 episode: "Babel"
DS9 episode: "Captive Pursuit"
DS9 novel: The Siege
DS9 episode: "Q-Less"
DS9 episode: "Dax"
DS9 episode: "The Passenger"
DS9 novel: The Star Ghost
DS9 episode: "Move Along Home"
DS9 episode: "The Nagus"
DS9 episode: "Vortex"
DS9 video game: Crossroads of Time
DS9 novel: Bloodletter
DS9 episode: "The Storyteller"
DS9 episode: "Progress"
DS9 novel: Warped
DS9 episode: "If Wishes Were Horses"
DS9 episode: "The Forsaken"
DS9 novel: Stowaways
DS9 episode: "Dramatis Personae"
DS9 episode: "Duet"
DS9 episode: "In the Hands of the Prophets"

2370

2371

DS9 episode: "The Search, Part I"
DS9 episode: "The Search, Part II"
DS9 novel: The Search
DS9 novel: Proud Helios
DS9 episode: "The House of Quark"
DS9 episode: "Equilibrium"
DS9 episode: "Second Skin"
DS9 episode: "The Abandoned"
DS9 episode: "Civil Defense"
DS9 episode: "Meridian"
DS9 episode: "Defiant"
DS9 episode: "Fascination"
DS9 episode: "Past Tense, Part I"
DS9 episode: "Life Support"
DS9 short story: "The Orb of Opportunity"
DS9 comic: "The Looking Glass War"
DS9 episode: "Heart of Stone"
DS9 episode: "Destiny"
DS9 episode: "Prophet Motive"
DS9 episode: "Visionary"
DS9 episode: "Distant Voices"
DS9 episode: "Through the Looking Glass"
DS9 episode: "Explorers"
DS9 novel: The Laertian Gamble
DS9 episode: "Family Business"
DS9 episode: "Shakaar"
DS9 episode: "Facets"
DS9 novel: The Long Night
DS9 episode: "The Adversary"
DS9 novel: Station Rage
DS9 - Invasion! novel: Time's Enemy
DS9 video game: Harbinger

2372

DS9 novel: Saratoga
DS9 novel: Wrath of the Prophets
DS9 episode: "The Way of the Warrior"
DS9 novel: The Way of the Warrior
DS9 episode: "The Visitor"
DS9 episode: "Hippocratic Oath"
DS9 episode: "Indiscretion"
DS9 novel: The Tempest
DS9 episode: "Rejoined"
DS9 episode: "Starship Down"
DS9 episode: "Little Green Men"
DS9 episode: "The Sword of Kahless"
DS9 episode: "Our Man Bashir"
DS9 short story: "Broken Oaths"
DS9 episode: "Homefront"
TNG - Slings and Arrows eBook: The Oppressor's Wrong
DS9 episode: "Crossfire"
DS9 - Day of Honor novel: Armageddon Sky
DS9 novel: The Heart of the Warrior
DS9 episode: "Sons of Mogh"
DS9 episode: "Bar Association"
DS9 novel: The 34th Rule
DS9 episode: "Accession"
DS9 episode: "Rules of Engagement"
DS9 episode: "Hard Time"
DS9 episode: "Shattered Mirror"
DS9 novel: Trial by Error
DS9 episode: "The Muse"
DS9 episode: "For the Cause"
DS9 episode: "To the Death"
DS9 episode: "The Quickening"
DS9 episode: "Body Parts"
DS9 episode: "Broken Link"

2373

DS9 episode: "Apocalypse Rising"
DS9 episode: "The Ship"
DS9 episode: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places"
DS9 episode: "Nor the Battle to the Strong"
DS9 episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations"
DS9 novel: Vengeance
DS9 episode: "The Ascent"
DS9 episode: "Rapture"
DS9 episode: "The Darkness and the Light"
DS9 episode: "The Begotten"
DS9 novella: The Badlands, Part IV
DS9 episode: "In Purgatory's Shadow"
DS9 episode: "By Inferno's Light"
DS9 novel: The Conquered
DS9 novel: The Courageous
DS9 novel: The Liberated
DS9 episode: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"
DS9 episode: "A Simple Investigation"
DS9 episode: "Business as Usual"
DS9 episode: "Ties of Blood and Water"
DS9 episode: "Ferengi Love Songs"
DS9 short story: "... Loved I Not Honor More"
DS9 episode: "Blaze of Glory"
DS9 episode: "Empok Nor"
DS9 episode: "In the Cards"
DS9 episode: "Call to Arms"
DS9 novel: Call to Arms...

2374

DS9 episode: "A Time to Stand"
DS9 episode: "Sons and Daughters"
DS9 episode: "Behind the Lines"
DS9 short story: "Three Sides to Every Story"
DS9 episode: "Favor the Bold"
DS9 episode: "Sacrifice of Angels"
DS9 novel: ...Sacrifice of Angels
DS9 episode: "You Are Cordially Invited"
DS9 episode: "Resurrection"
DS9 episode: "Statistical Probabilities"
DS9 episode: "The Magnificent Ferengi"
DS9 episode: "Who Mourns for Morn?"
DS9 episode: "One Little Ship"
DS9 episode: "Honor Among Thieves"
DS9 episode: "Change of Heart"
DS9 episode: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"
DS9 episode: "Inquisition"
DS9 episode: "In the Pale Moonlight"
DS9 novel: Hollow Men
DS9 episode: "His Way"
DS9 episode: "The Reckoning"
DS9 episode: "Valiant"
DS9 episode: "Profit and Lace"
DS9 episode: "Time's Orphan"
DS9 episode: "The Sound of Her Voice"
DS9 video game: The Fallen
DS9 novel: The Fall of Terok Nor
DS9 novel: The War of the Prophets
DS9 episode: "Tears of the Prophets"

2375

DS9 short story: "Foundlings"
DS9 episode: "Image in the Sand"
DS9 episode: "Shadows and Symbols"
DS9 episode: "Afterimage"
DS9 short story: "Chiaroscuro"
DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"
DS9 episode: "Chrysalis"
DS9 episode: "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"
DS9 episode: "Once More Unto the Breach"
DS9 episode: "The Siege of AR-558"
DS9 episode: "Covenant"
DS9 episode: "It's Only a Paper Moon"
DS9 episode: "The Emperor's New Cloak"
DS9 episode: "Field of Fire"
DS9 episode: "Chimera"
DS9 short story: "The Best Defense..."
DS9 episode: "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"
DS9 episode: "Penumbra"
DS9 episode: "'Til Death Do Us Part"
DS9 episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
DS9 episode: "The Changing Face of Evil"
DS9 episode: "When It Rains..."
DS9 episode: "The Dogs of War"
DS9 episode: "What You Leave Behind"
DS9 short story: "Barclay Program Nine"
DS9 comic: "N-Vector"

2376

TNG - Maximum Warp novel: Dead Zone
DS9 novels: Avatar, Book One, Avatar, Book Two
DS9 - Section 31 novel: Abyss
DS9 - Gateways novel: Demons of Air and Darkness
DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Twilight
DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: This Gray Spirit
DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Cathedral
DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Lesser Evil
DS9 novel: Unity
DS9 - Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novella: Bajor: Fragments and Omens
DS9 - Worlds of DS9 - Volume Three novella: Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed
DS9 novel: Warpath

2377

2382

ST - Typhon Pact novel: Plagues of Night
ST - Typhon Pact novel: Zero Sum Game
ST - Typhon Pact novel: Plagues of Night

2383

ST - Typhon Pact novel: Plagues of Night
ST - Typhon Pact novel: Raise the Dawn

2385

ST - The Fall novel: Revelation and Dust
DS9 novel: Sacraments of Fire
ST - The Fall novel: A Ceremony of Losses
DS9 eBook: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found)
DS9 eBook: Rules of Accusation
DS9 novel: The Missing
DS9 novel: Ascendance

References

ST reference: Star Trek Chronology, 1996 edition, pages 188, 203

External link

Quark article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki