Quark's past sympathy towards Bajoran refugees under the noses of the hard-boiled Cardassians was probably the reason why Major Kira Nerys tolerated his continued presence on DS9 after the Federation took over control of the space station. Accusations of collaboration have never been proved. Fleeing an incident involving a food critic and a disruptor pistol, he opened an establishment called Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade (Quark's Bar) on Terok Nor (the Cardassian name for DS9) during the Cardassian occupation. After a hasty departure from his homeworld, Quark served as chef on a Ferengi freighter.
Quark's predicted golden future in the Ferengi business world was scuppered when he ignored a rule about fraternisation: he slept with a female relative of his boss. He owns a rare first edition copy of Vulcan Love Slave and a Klingon opera recording 1.
Like all Ferengi males, he considers himself quite the ladies' man his extravagant and colourful clothing makes the most of his orange skin and blue-fingernailed large hands. Ferengi ears are their main erogenous zones, and the size of their earlobes is something they brag about. Quark is taller than the average Ferengi male at 5' 6" (1.68m), but is otherwise typical of his kind with an enlarged skull, deeply-grooved nose, sharp pointed teeth and large lobes (ears). The elder son of Keldar and Ishka, Quark left home as soon as he became an adult, following rule #75 'Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum' to the letter. Non-Trekkers who saw him on the street must have thought they were having a close encounter of the fourth kind! Quark
A family emergency call once meant that Shimerman had to leave the film studio in full Ferengi get-up. The Ferengi host was played by human actor Armin Shimerman using a full-head prosthetic appliance.
Quark made his name on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, although he made a concurrent appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation. One particular Ferengi, Quark, is a risk-taking entrepreneuring wheeler-dealer exhibiting an eclectic mix of hard taskmaster and compassionate soft touch - for example he'll cream off 30% of his workers' tips but then he'll sell food (illegally) to refugees at cost. Their sexist culture is dominated by the males who abide by the Rules of Acquisition, the first (and obviously most important) of which is: 'Once you have their money, you never give it back.' They are the second-hand car salesmen of the universe, and their idea of Heaven is the 'Divine Treasury'. The Ferengi, who hail from the planet Ferenginar, are a race whose main aim in life is to make profit. Without them, there wouldn't be much of a show! Some aliens are war-like and permanently angry, like the Klingons others are more peaceful.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ran from 1993-1999 and was the most heavily serialized of the five Star Trek television series to date.The science fiction world of Star Trek features many alien races. But with the discovery of the nearby wormhole-a shortcut through space that leads directly to the uncharted Gamma quadrant-Sisko's mandate has expanded exponentially, as the region becomes the gateway to all manner of visitors, both friendly and extremely hostile.
Initially, Sisko's mandate from Starfleet was to protect Bajor and the station from any hostiles who ventured into the area. The rest of Deep Space 9's inhabitants are civilians, most of whom work in the station's Promenade, a kind of indoor marketplace. Approximately a sixth of the station's 300 permanent residents are Starfleet personnel there is also a sizable Bajoran militia presence. Although Sisko commands Deep Space 9, the station actually belongs to the inhabitants of nearby Bajor, who requested Starfleet's protective presence after Bajoran freedom fighters put an end to the brutal Cardassian occupation of their world. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) focuses on the 24th-century adventures of Captain Benjamin Sisko on space station Deep Space 9, an outpost situated near the mouth of a stable wormhole on the far reaches of explored space.