Having trouble reaching anyone on Ferenginar, Rom goes to Quark and begs him to help find out what is going on. Trying to figure out what to do, a Ferengi ship appears with Grand Nagus Zek and Quark and Rom's mother on board. Landing, they tell the two brothers that Zek amended the Ferengi Bill of Opportunities to allow Ferengi women to wear clothes. The result of the amendment led to worldwide panic in the Ferengi stock market that overloaded all of the communications lines. As a result, Zek was deposed and Brunt is now the Grand Nagus. That is, unless Zek can retake his crown.
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.