Jealous of the Starfleet soldiers onboard Deep Space Nine using their hero stories to trump his stories of profit, Quark suddenly finds himself in a position to become a hero himself. His mother has been kidnapped by the Dominion and Grand Nagus Zek is paying Quark to rescue his mother. Quark puts together a team of seven Ferengi in order to save the day.
When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine.
The years of Starfleet's nonintervention into Cardassian matters, however, had taken its toll on relations with the Bajorans. Consequently, Starfleet's position was a tenuous one; many Bajorans, suspicious and hostile as a result of decades of Cardassian oppression and brutality, did not greet the Federation's presence with open arms. The Federation's assistance is put to the test as DS9 becomes a center of travel and commerce that stretches into the Gamma Quadrant.