 Quick Facts:
- Mother to Rom and Quark, and
widow to Keldar
- Lead the Ferengi women's
rights movement, which gave women the right to earn profit
and wear clothes
- Fell in love with Grand
Nagus Zek
Complete Bios:
FROM
STARTREK.COM
Perhaps the most pivotal female
in Ferengi history — not because she is Quark and Rom's widowed
mother, but because of her impact on feminist reforms on
Ferenginar via Grand Nagus Zek, her lover since 2373. Whether
earning profit or wearing clothes, her push for gender equality
came out in the open with a charge of illegal profit-making by
the FCA in 2371, later waived with confession (and a secret
stash still earning income). Her son Quark had been cited for
improper supervision, since she'd built a fortune in investments
from his monthly three-bar stipend of gold-pressed latinum.
She and Zek first met when she
helped him recover his game at the Global Tongo Championships,
and it set the tone for her secret support of his lagging
financial acumen that helped ignite the modern Ferengi financial
boom. She was briefly kidnapped by the Dominion in 2374 while
returning from a lobelift on Vulcan and then freed in a prisoner
exchange engineered by her sons. Later that year she received an
artificial replacement heart from Dr. Bashir on DS9, following
her coronary collapse during Zek's brief removal as nagus by the
FCA over the feminist reforms she had finally seen enacted.
The daughter of Adred, Ishka was always closer to her younger
son Rom, who called her "Moogie." She was estranged from Quark
for years after the death of her husband and their father,
Keldar, due to Quark's perception that her behavior put him in
the grave too soon and held him back. But she loved Keldar
despite outclassing him in business, and the FCA encounter
allowed her and Quark to reach an understanding.
First
Seen: "Family Business"
Last Seen: "The Dogs of War"
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