Family Business
Production Number: 469
Original air week: 5/15/95
Written by: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Directed by: Rene Auberjonois
Guest Stars:
Spellings: "Ferenginar"
Notes:
- FCA: "Ferengi Commerce Authority".
- Captain Kasidy Yates works for the Pitarians (sp?), and uses a Mark
V Transporter, which cannot compensate for unstable biomatter.
- The station, and Starfleet presumably, uses Mark VII Transporters.
- The Ferengi have a lot of bylaws. Sub-section 1027, paragraph 3 deals
with keeping female family members "under control", earning no profit.
- The Runabout "Rubicon" was first mentioned
in this episode. Kira asked Commander Sisko what to name the ship;
apparently, he has the power to name them what he wants.
- Adred is the mother? of Ishka. Ishka and Keldar are the parents of
Quark and Rom. Rom is the father of Nog. Quark has a cousin Stol.
Keldar's name was first mentioned in "The House of
Quark".
- Ferengi females have many rules:
- They are supposed to soften food for males by chewing it.
- They are not allowed to wear clothes.
- They are not allowed to talk to strangers.
- They are not allowed to make profit.
- Rom stayed at 10 years after he reached the Age of Ascention, while
Quark left right away.
- The FCA is on the 41st floor of the building it is in.
The elevator in the building costs 7 strips of Latinum to use.
- Quark and Rom live in adjacent rooms on the station.
- Moogie helped Quark memorize his copy of the Rules
of Acquisition.
- Kasidy's youngest brother is on Cestus III, from whence takes a subspace
message two weeks to get to DS9.
- Ben is a right-handed pitcher in baseball.
- It rains a lot on Ferenginar.
Possible Rules of Acquisition:
- "No one can outsmart the FCA." -- Brunt
- Program Highlights
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: "Family Business" -- Quark returns
to his planet to confront his mother, who has broken the
Ferengi law prohibiting females from earning a profit.
- TV Guide Ad
- FAMILY FEUD!
She's breaking the law... by making a fortune!
Will Quark's mother take him from riches to rags?
- TV Log Listing
- Quark's mother breaks Ferengi law on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE.
- Paramount Web Page Description
- An agent named Brunt from the Ferengi Commerce Authority serves
Quark with a Writ of Accountability because Quark and Rom's mother,
Ishka, is charged with earning a profit--an illegal activity for
Ferengi women. As the family's eldest male, Quark is held
responsible. On Ferenginar, Ishka confirms that she did break
Ferengi law by investing a portion of her monthly stipend from
Quark, but earned only three bars of latinum in the process. Then
Quark discovers that Ishka has actually been conducting business
transactions under dozens of aliases all over the Ferengi Alliance,
making a tremendous profit. Even if Quark sells everything he owns,
he will be unable to pay back what his mother has earned. Quark
must decide whether to turn Ishka over to the FCA, or face total
financial ruin.
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