Morn Morn was a male Lurian courier of the 24th century . He owned a shipping business that specialized in the transport of various mundane cargos . Morn gained a reputation while living on Deep Space 9 of being social , highly talkative , and enjoyed a wide variety of alcohol ic beverage s as a frequent patron of Quark ' s and his best customer . ( ) Lissepian Mother ' s Day Heist . Morn was one of five thieves who stole 1 , 000 bricks of gold - pressed latinum from the Central Bank of Lissepia in the Lissepian Mother ' s Day Heist of 2365 . Morn somehow extracted the latinum from the bricks , then deposited the gold in the Bank of Bolias and stored the liquid latinum in his second stomach , causing most of his hair to fall out . ( ) Life on Deep Space 9 . The first time Morn walked into Quark ' s was around 2364 , a time when he still had his hair . Quark thought he was just another customer passing through , when he sat down in what would soon be known as " his stool " . Little did Quark know he would become such an important figure in his life , and to his bar . ( ) After the Cardassians retreated from Bajor in 2369 , Morn remained on Deep Space 9 , which was then under Federation control . Morn spent most of his time at Quark ' s , becoming his most reliable customer and occasional business partner ( notably in an attempt to setup an illegal Cardassian Vole fighting ring ; he was discovered painting numbers on the voles , and the operation was stopped ) . ( ) Morn , while walking on the upper level of the Promende in 2369 viewed Lursa and B ' Etor arriving on Deep Space 9 . ( ) In 2370 , with his freighter rendered inoperable during a warp core retrofit , Morn was seen evacuating the station on the last available runabout , the , during the short - lived Bajoran coup . ( ) In 2371 , Morn sat near Tom Paris in Quark ' s and watched as Quark tried to scam Ensign Harry Kim into buying worthless Lobi crystal s , which Quark said he got from a strange creature called a " Morn " . ( ) Odo saved Morn from becoming a victim of illegal search and seizure by a belligerent Klingon posse on the Promenade , who asked Morn " . . . what he was doing so far away from the Ionite Nebula " . ( ) Quark even let Morn run the bar temporarily while he was on a trip to Earth in 2372 . ( ) In the weeks leading up to the Dominion War , Morn went berserk after hearing Quark ' s prediction of the coming doom . He hit Quark with a barstool , and ran out of the bar and through the Promenade , screaming " " We ' re all doomed ! " " He then ran into the Bajoran shrine , stark naked , and began crying to the Prophet s for protection . ( ) During the Dominion ' s control of Terok Nor , Morn took a trip to see his mother on her birthday , and brought an encoded message to Captain Benjamin Sisko from the resistance forces on the station , containing vital information about the Cardassian s ' timetable for disabling the minefield blocking the Bajoran wormhole from the Dominion ' s forces in the Gamma Quadrant . When Admiral Ross questioned whether the message was reliable , Sisko responded that he had known Morn for five years , and trusted him . Morn ' s actions spurred the Federation to launch Operation Return , thereby saving the Alpha Quadrant . ( ) Morn attended the pre - wedding party thrown by Jadzia Dax in her quarters . He almost got into a fight with a Bolian , but the two managed to work things out . He eventually passed out behind the couch , leaving the following morning with an obvious hangover . ( ) In mid - 2374 , Morn went away on a business trip , leaving a shipment of Livanian beet s in Cargo Bay 3 . The previous time Morn went away , Quark ' s sales dropped almost five percent . So , while he was gone , Quark created a hologram of the Lurian because his bar was incomplete without him . People loved Morn , and he felt that he was a mascot – everyone who came into the bar expected to see him , and if they didn ' t it didn ' t feel like home – which wasn ' t good for Quark ' s business . After a period of over two weeks , the beets Morn had left in the cargo bay began to rot , causing Odo to seek him out in Quark ' s and ask that he remove them from the cargo bay . At the time , however , Morn was gone , and Quark had placed the hologram of the Lurian at " his stool " , temporarily fooling Odo , to Quark ' s delight . Moments later , Quark got word that Morn ' s cargo ship had been caught in an ion storm , where he had died . Following Morn ' s memorial , Quark learned from Benjamin Sisko , who unsealed Morn ' s will , that everything of Morn ' s was left to Quark : four cargo containers of beets , a mud bath " bed " , a painting of a matador , and one - thousand bricks of gold - pressed latinum ( in assay office locker 137 ) . It was later determined that Morn faked his own death , after the statute of limitations ran out against the Lissepian Mother ' s Day Heist , in order to throw his fellow thieves off his trail . In return for Quark ' s assistance in getting the four other thieves off of his back , he offered Quark a quantity of the latinum that he had hidden in his second stomach . ( ) " In an alternate future he attended the memorial service for Benjamin Sisko on the promenade . He also ran Quark ' s in 2405 , with the station under Klingon control . In 2422 he still runs the bar , which was named Morn ' s . Julian Bashir mentioned that Dax , Nog , and Jake Sisko could visit Morn ' s for a drink . " ( ) Personal life . Morn had seventeen brothers and sisters . ( ) Although he owned his own ship , Morn kept his quarters aboard Deep Space 9 . His quarters were exceptionally spartan , containing a ' hot tub ' of mud , where he slept , and a painting of a matador . ( ) Morn was quite the ladies ' man , and was often seen with a beautiful woman by his side . Morn once asked out Starfleet officer Jadzia Dax , who declined . She did say she thought he was cute , ( ) and , prior to 2372 later admitted that she used to have a little crush on him . As she explained it , however , " he " wasn ' t interested . ( ) Morn was also attracted to several other females aboard the station and was frequently seen flirting with some such as a Bajoran woman who received a hand kiss from him ( ) as well as a female Kobheerian . ( ) He also enjoyed playing dabo , but couldn ' t get the hang of darts . ( ) He and Worf frequently sparred , having weekly combat in the holosuite . Worf thought that he was an excellent sparring partner . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Morn was played by actor Mark Allen Shepherd . However , Ira Steven Behr once joked , " " Actually , I play Morn . Marc Shephard is just an actor I ' ve hired to confuse the fans at conventions . . . but don ' t tell anyone . . . It ' s a secret . . . " " Behr also referred to the character as " our favorite barfly . " Mark Allen Shepherd made his first appearance as Morn in DS9 series premiere . In the episode , Shepherd , without the Morn makeup , briefly appeared as the Bajoran customer whom Quark asks to fill Morn ' s seat . Morn was first identified by name in ( although his name had previously been used in the scripts for and ) and by species in " Who Mourns for Morn ? " . " Morn " is an anagram for , the barfly played by in the TV show . ( ) The manner in which Dax shouts his name upon seeing the hologram at Quark ' s is reminiscent of the greeting Norm would usually receive as soon as he walked into Cheers . It is possible that Morn was androgynous since Odo , while making an announcement to passers - by on the Promenade of Deep Space 9 , said " " Ladies and gentlemen " ( notices Morn walking by ) " . . . and all androgynous species . . . " " It is reasonable to assume Odo was making a joke at Morn ' s expense , though given the gravity of the situation , he could have been serious . The former seems to be true since Morn was referred to as he / him in subsequent episodes . Before the series was aired , Morn was simply known by staff as " the Grinch " . Mark Shepherd almost did not become Morn . Despite being hired for the role , the production crew accidentally left him off the calling list when they began filming " Emissary " . By what Shepherd claims was intuition , he decided one day to wander onto the Paramount lot and see what was going on . Coincidentally that very day , Morn was to be filmed . Shepherd ' s contribution impressed the producers so much , he was made a recurring character . ( " " ) Aside from Mark Allen Shepherd , Dennis Madalone is the only stunt performer or actor to have portrayed Morn . In , there is one stunt scene in which Morn is thrown from his bar stool by Worf . According to Mark Shepherd , over the years a number of episodes were written during which Morn spoke various snippets of dialogue , but his lines were always removed by the time the script was being shot . In one particular example , Morn was to come down the spiral staircase in Quark ' s wearing a tuxedo , having been in the holosuite using the Julian Bashir , Secret Agent holoprogram . Quark is mixing a drink for Morn at the bar , and Morn looks over at him and says , " . " This scene remained through a number of script rewrites , to the point that Shepherd ( in full Morn makeup ) was actually fitted for a tuxedo , but at the last minute , the scene was removed . ( " Morn Speaks " , DS9 Season 7 DVD , Special Features ) Shepherd also speculated , in a 1996 interview for " Star Trek Monthly " , that Morn would probably speak the last line of the series – but that was ultimately spoken by Quark . A character named Morn owns a pub in the fantasy book series by . According to , the character was named after the Morn from " Deep Space Nine " . Morn never spoke a single word throughout all of " Deep Space Nine " . In the German version of the episode , however , he does speak : he was just about to tell Quark what was troubling him when Quark simply walked away . Resigned , Morn mutters , " " Dann nicht . . . " " ( roughly meaning " " So much for that . . . " " ) . These words are not uttered in the original English version . Along with Quark , Q , and Evek , he is one of only four characters to appear in all three " Star Trek " series based in the 24th century : , and . Morn is one of five characters to appear in two series premieres ( and ) , the others being Quark , Jean - Luc Picard , Broik and Miles O ' Brien . Morn , Julian Bashir , Quark , Gul Evek and Admiral Chekote are the only characters to appear in prior to appearing in . With ninety - two appearances , Morn appeared in more episodes of " Deep Space Nine " than Jake Sisko ( Cirroc Lofton ) , a regular cast member with only seventy - one appearances . The character of Morn was , essentially , something of a gag that the program ' s producers were playing on just about everyone else . Though other characters repeatedly referred to him as being talkative and excitable , Morn was never actually shown doing anything other than imbibing , and quietly at that , at Quark ' s bar . During the fifth season , Ron D . Moore in an AOL chat gave a summary of what was going on in the show , ending by joking that Morn had become President of the Federation . Moore later declined to comment on allegations that Morn had accepted illegal campaign contributions from the Ferengi or the Romulan s , as a special counsel investigation on the matter was underway . Apocrypha . In the short story " Mirror Eyes , " in the anthology " Tales of the Dominion War " , the narrator , a Romulan Tal Shiar agent working undercover aboard DS9 , identifies Morn as the only inhabitant of the station with whom she feels " an intellectual kinship . " In the video game " " , Morn makes several appearances on the Promenade between missions . In " Star Trek Online " , Morn can still be found in Quark ' s bar .