Gaila ( Ferengi ) Gaila was a male Ferengi and arms dealer of the Ferengi Alliance in the 24th century . He was successful enough to buy his own moon . Odo noted that he knew Gaila to be a more devious Ferengi than Quark , his cousin . ( ) Gaila began his career in the weapons business in 2333 . ( ) In 2362 , Quark loaned Gaila the latinum to start a munitions consortium , and in return , Gaila promised to buy Quark a ship if he became successful . ( ) In 2372 , during a discussion between Quark and Garak over Quark ' s surplus of kanar in storage due to the lack of Cardassian customers , Quark regretfully remarks that he should have listened to his cousin Gaila in entering the arms market with him . In retrospect , Quark admits that no one ever went broke selling weapons , but nonetheless didn ' t listen to Gaila ' s advice because he was a " people person " ; that he enjoyed interacting with his customers as opposed to the impersonal nature of arms customers . ( ) Gaila hatched a plot in 2372 to kill Quark while seemingly honoring his debt to him with a ship . He sent Quark a Ferengi shuttle , which Quark designated " Quark ' s Treasure " . The shuttle was later found to have been sabotage d . ( ) Later that year , Quark planned to use the money generated from the sale of his vacuum desiccated remains to pay back Gaila . After he learned he did not have Dorek Syndrome , Quark tried to rescind the debt payments . ( ) In 2373 , Gaila and his business partner Hagath approached Quark to make use of his holosuite s for use in their business endeavors . Though Gaila and Hagath had no qualms about selling weapons that would be used to kill millions of people , Quark began to have a crisis of conscience , particularly after learning the Regent of Palamar intended to buy biogenic weapon s that would be used to that effect . Quark eventually double - crossed Gaila and Hagath by arranging for the Regent ' s enemy , General Nassuc to come to the station and " accidentally " run into them . Following the ensuing firefight , Gaila and Hagath fled the station with the Palamarian Freedom Brigade ' s purification squad s in pursuit . ( ) Gaila managed to evade the purification squads but soon fell on hard times . In 2374 , Gaila was arrested on Thalos VI for vagrancy . He had a fine levied against him , but was unable to pay it and ended up in prison . Initially swearing revenge against Quark , his vengeance soon gave way to greed after learning about an offer to earn latinum by joining Quark ' s team to rescue his mother Ishka , who had been captured by the Dominion . He accepted the offer when he learned that Quark paid his fine . Gaila insistance that he was " a weapons dealer , not a soldier " proved to be all too true as he jeopardized the mission more than once . First , he nearly allowed Keevan , the Vorta prisoner to be exchanged for Ishka , to escape when he fell asleep while guarding him . Later , after discovering that Quark intended to keep most of the reward money for himself , Gaila attempted to shoot him but shot and killed Keevan instead . Despite the daunting setback , the Ferengi managed to rescue Ishka and take Yelgrun , another Vorta , prisoner . ( ) Gaila was one of the people that Rom tried to contact several months later , but was unable to , due to a communications blackout on Ferenginar . ( ) Appendicies . Background information . According to the for and the for , Gaila was pronounced as " GAY - luh " . Apocrypha . Gaila makes an appearance in the novel " Demons of Air and Darkness " . He and his cousin , Quark , are on the opposite side of a negotiating table involving supposed Iconian s and the Orion Syndicate . He also appears in the " Worlds of Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , Volume Three ] ] " novel " Satisfaction is not Guaranteed " .