Leeta Leeta was a Bajoran dabo girl at Quark ' s on the space station Deep Space 9 . She married Rom , who later became the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance . ( ) Life on Deep Space 9 . Leeta became a dabo girl in 2371 , although she was an amateur sociologist . ( ) She quickly formed friendships with many of the station residents , including Doctor Julian Bashir and science officer Jadzia Dax . She was even asked by Dax to take part in her Trill " zhian ' tara " ritual . During the ceremony , the memories of one of Dax ' former hosts , Emony , were temporarily transferred into Leeta . ( ) In 2372 , Leeta joined the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees in response to Quark ' s pay cuts . She helped lead the formation of the union , helping Rom stand up to his brother Quark . ( ) When the Federation retreated from Deep Space 9 after the Second Battle of Deep Space 9 , Leeta returned to Bajor for safety . ( ) When the situation on the station became less dangerous , Leeta returned and helped the resistance cell which had formed against the Dominion . ( ) When Quark temporarily posed as a female in 2374 to help Grand Nagus Zek regain his office , Leeta helped teach Quark how to act like a woman . ( ) In 2375 she participated in a game of baseball in the holosuite with the senior staff of the station against a team of Vulcan s . ( ) Relationships . Soon after moving to Deep Space 9 , Leeta became interested in Julian Bashir and the two began dating . ( ) Their relationship lasted for over a year , but the two decided to break up in 2373 . They traveled to Risa and participated in the Bajoran Rite of Separation . Leeta then admitted to having a crush on Ferengi engineer Rom . ( ) Leeta waited for Rom to ask her out for months , but he never worked up the courage . When Doctor Lewis Zimmerman visited the station to work with Doctor Bashir , he fell in love with Leeta . Knowing that Leeta had always wanted to open her own restaurant , he arranged for her to take control of an establishment on Jupiter Station . He asked her to return there with him and live together . She agreed and arranged to leave the station . Just as she was boarding a ship , Rom stopped her and confessed his love for her . Leeta admitted that she was in love with Rom , too , and Doctor Zimmerman returned home alone . ( ) Rom and Leeta decided to get married quickly . Rom initially asked her to sign a waiver of property and profit , a Ferengi legal document requiring her to give up all claim to his estate should the marriage end , but she refused . Rom eventually donated all of his money to the Bajoran War Orphans Fund to make the issue moot . ( ) They asked the , Captain Benjamin Sisko , to perform the ceremony . He married them on the eve of the Dominion War . The two were temporarily separated when Leeta returned to Bajor while Rom stayed on the station as a Federation spy . ( ) She returned to the station several months later and joined the anti - Dominion resistance cell lead by Major Kira Nerys along with Rom , Quark , Odo , and Jake Sisko . ( ) When Rom was given the role of Grand Nagus by Zek in 2375 , Leeta went with him to Ferenginar to help him carry out his duties . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The character was named after pre - production coordinator Lolita Fatjo . Leeta was played by actress Chase Masterson , who had previously auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of the dabo girl Mardah . Ira Steven Behr said about Masterson , " " We kept her in mind , thinking she could make a fun character . When we cast her as Leeta in , we didn ' t know if we were going to continue her character right away . We just wanted to see how it would work . " " ( " " , p . 238 ) Apocrypha . In the of novels , Leeta became pregnant and ( after a hard pregnancy due in part to the fetus ' half - Bajoran , half - Ferengi biology ) gave birth to a baby girl named , named for the Emissary and the Bajoran word for " joy . " Unfortunately the word " bena " also means " underflooring " in the Ferengi language ( Although Rom defended it by saying that it symbolized how children were always getting underfoot ) . At the time of Bena ' s birth Rom was being challenged for his role of Grand Nagus on the grounds that he had broken his original marriage contract with his first wife . Ro Laren buys the case time by noting that , according to the Rules of Acquisition , " A contract is a contract is a contract , but only between Ferengi " , arguing that since Rom ' s second marriage was to a Bajoran woman in a Bajoran ceremony overseen by the Bajoran Emissary , technically he " didn ' t " violate his original contract as the new one doesn ' t " count " under Ferengi law . With this delay drawing the case out further , Quark was able to find proof that the evidence indicating Rom ' s first marriage had never been dissolved was false and he was in fact divorced . During the novel , Nog pays a brief visit to Prinadora , but departs when she fails to even recognize him , admitting later that Leeta has been more of a " moogie " to him than Prinadora ever was . Leeta was never given a full name in course of the TV series , only ever referred to as Leeta . The novel " Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed " explained that this was because Leeta never knew her family name – she was an orphan brought up without a family during the Bajoran Occupation .