 Quick Facts:
- Father to Nog, brother to
Quark, and son to Ishka
- Served as a waiter in
Quark's Bar before becoming a Bajoran maintenance and repair
technician on DS9
- Often teased for his
clumsiness, inability to earn profit, and apparent stupidity
- Formed a union for the
workers of Quark's Bar
- Married Leeta in "Call to
Arms"
- Chosen by Zek to replace
him as Grand Nagus
Complete Bios:
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Rom was
often teased by other children, led by Quark, about his
smaller lobes and about supposedly being adopted; the nickname
of "Moogie" for his mother has been a lifelong habit
since an early age. His father's Naming Day presents to him
were swapped for old vegetables by Quark, who resold the gifts
at a profit over what Keldar had paid.
After the
birth of his son Nog ca. 2354, he left home on Ferenginar for
good in 2361 — 10 years after Quark did — but not before
witnessing firsthand his father's lack of business sense as
his brother never had the chance to. Long subservient to Quark
and the target of his public ridicule, Rom could have been a
starship chief engineer, his son later says, if he hadn't
given up a mechanical career to "be a good Ferengi"
and seek profit — the reason Nog wants to avoid such a life
and be in Starfleet; neither one has "the lobes" for
business.
Rom was
living on DS9 by 2369, where he was forced to temporarily give
up his quarters across the hall from Quark's for the Nagus
visit, and allowed Nog to attend Keiko's school on the station
only if it helped his inter-cultural sense for profit-making.
A year
later, he briefly owned a fourth of rival bar Club Martus
across from Quark's; just before, his share of Quark's bar
profits was dropped from one-seventh to one-eighth of the
take. Accused by Odo of a murder attempt on Quark, he later
helped capture the would-be assassin on his second try.
Jealous of Pel's newfound friendship with Quark, he exposed
"him" as a female during a visit by Grand Nagus Zek
in 2370. The next year, he atoned for his involvement with the
transcendent Nagus' attitude by embezzling from his
short-lived Ferengi Benevolent Association.
After
crossing his brother over his treatment of their feminist
rebel mother, he stood up to him even more strongly to support
Nog's historic admission to Starfleet Academy in late 2371;
like any proud Ferengi papa, he ran the sale of Nog's personal
effects in the bar as the teen raised capital to leave home
for the Academy — and claimed his son's pajamas.
His
newfound backbone grew even more by the next year, when he
single-handedly organized a union of Quark's employees, defied
his brother and the Ferengi Commerce Authority, and then
resigned after they secretly won to join the station's
maintenance crews — a show of independence that was perhaps
the biggest shock yet to Quark. His growing renown for
engineering feats grew in 2372, when he performed theoretical
jury-rigging to rescue his family and Odo from a time-trip
back to 1947 Earth, and later saved the DS9 senior staff by
adapting an interface between the holosuites and the Defiant
transporter to restore their beaming patterns. Actually, Rom
had always had the ability — he just had lacked the
confidence.
Rom is far
from an innocent, though: he routinely breaks in to use
furniture, linens, food and drink for the bar and Quark's
personal stores; he denies shaving the latinum there —
mostly. Rom used to live across the hall from Quark and made
his son Nog do all the housecleaning in lieu of his own
messiness; there's no word what it looks like since the teen
left for Starfleet Academy.
Update:
Rom was married to Leeta on stardate 50975. (Perhaps
emboldened by his new Bajoran love, during the Dominion war,
Rom was very active in the Bajoran Resistance to the
Cardassian/Dominion occupation of DS9.) In 2375, Rom was
appointed to succeed Zek as the Ferengi Grand Nagus. Rom's
embracing of Zek's proposed social reforms was key in the
Grand Nagus' decision. Rom's son, Nog, returned to DS9 and, at
one time, roomed with Jake Sisko.
First
Seen: "Emissary, Part I"
Current Status: Grand Nagus of Ferengi Alliance ("The
Dogs of War")
Last Seen: "The Dogs of War"
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