Worse, Quark's nephew Nog joined Starfleet, and Rom likely continued Moogie's controversial reforms that overhauled Ferengi society as Grand Nagus. Quark didn't have a great reputation among the Ferengi since he worked so closely with the United Federation of Planets on Deep Space Nine. When Mariner asked the Ferengi if they've heard of Quark, their marauders' leader angrily replied, "Of course I've heard of Quark!" But these Ferengi don't seem to hold Grand Nagus Rom's brother in high regard. Thankfully, Ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) negotiated their fellow Starfleet Officers' release and convinced the Ferengi that it would be more profitable for them to open a nature preserve for the Mugato that would be open to then public. Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore) of the USS Cerritos. The Ferengi even had no issues kidnapping Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and the resurrected Lt. Lower Decks' Ferengi marauders are energy whip-cracking profiteers who were illicitly harvesting families of Mugato on the planet Freylon IV. However, the Ferengi who popped up in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 4, "Mugato, Gumato," were more in line with the Ferengi seen in the TNG season 1 episode, "The Last Outpost" than Quark and DS9's Ferengi. Related: Star Trek Makes Voyager's Fan Abbreviation Canon (But Only DS9 & Discovery Make Sense) Ferengi episodes were comedic highlights of DS9, especially "Little Green Men," where Quark, Rom, and Nog ended up being the aliens who landed in Roswell, New Mexico, in the 1950s, and "The Magnificent Ferengi," when Quark led a ragtag group of Ferengi to rescue Moogie from the Jem'Hadar. Other prominent Ferengi on DS9 included Quark's nemesis, Liquidator Brunt (Jeffrey Combs), his weapons-dealing cousin Gaila (Josh Pais), and the dangerous Leck (Hamilton Camp). DS9 delved into the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and introduced Grand Nagus Zek, along with Quark and Rom's Moogie (mother), Ishka (Cecily Adams). However, it was Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that thoroughly explored the Ferengi and their culture, thanks to Quark, Rom, and Nog (Aron Eisenberg), who was the first Ferengi to join Starfleet. The galaxy's ultimate capitalists, the greedy and profit-seeking Ferengi were introduced as villains in Star Trek: The Next Generation. At the end of DS9, Quark's brother Rom (Max Grodenchik) succeeded Zek (Wallace Shawn) as the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance, while Quark himself successfully franchised Quark's Bar, but the Ferengi seen on Star Trek: Lower Decks don't reflect the changes Quark and Rom have made in the way their race conducts business in the galaxy. The Ferengi are back in Star Trek: Lower Decks, but the opportunistic profiteers are more in line with Star Trek: The Next Generation's Ferengi instead of Quark (Armin Shimerman) and the Ferengi of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 4 - "Mugato, Gumato".
The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt’s work in the episode “All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms, Part 2”. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting “space baggies” with his trusted and highly unusual crew. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC.