Brunt Brunt was a male Ferengi of the 24th century Ferengi Alliance . He was a liquidator for the Ferengi Commerce Authority . He often wore a bar of gold - pressed latinum on a chain around his neck . Career . Brunt was given the task of dealing with Ishka , Quark ' s mother , in 2371 after she was found to have illegally earned profit . He used the threat of selling Ishka into indentured servitude to persuade Quark to get her to confess to her crimes . ( ) Brunt later returned to Deep Space 9 to investigate the worker strike at Quark ' s by Ferengi who had formed a union . After these two encounters with Quark , Brunt grew to hate him . ( ) Brunt had the joy of revoking Quark ' s business license in 2372 , after Quark broke a contract with him . Quark had sold Brunt the vacuum - desiccated remains of himself for 500 bars of latinum , but later found out that he was not going to die . Brunt seized Quark ' s assets and expelled him from the Ferengi business world . However , the generosity of the staff and residents of DS9 helped mitigate this punishment to Quark and allowed him to continue his bar business in defiance of Brunt ' s intentions . ( ) In 2373 , Brunt concocted a scheme to install himself as the new Grand Nagus , by exposing Grand Nagus Zek ' s failing business mind . His plan was foiled by Quark , who helped Zek reunite with Quark ' s business - minded mother . ( ) Following his betrayal , Brunt was fired from the FCA . Brunt later hoped to regain his old job by joining a rescue mission commissioned by Zek and led by Quark to rescue Ishka , who had been taken prisoner by the Dominion . Quark and the other team members initially did not welcome Brunt ' s efforts to join the group until he revealed his ownership of a shuttle . While the team was showing a notable lack of success in simulated engagements with Jem ' Hadar soldiers on in the holosuite , Brunt suggesting starting off with something easier like ambushing Bolian s . Team member , Nog , angrily retorted that Brunt couldn ' t ambush a Bolian if the Bolian was blindfolded and tied to a tree . Once it became clear that the team was not qualified to engage in a rescue mission , the instead arranged a prisoner exchange on Empok Nor . Brunt , along with Leck and Gaila were infuriated when they discovered Quark and Rom were going to cheat them out of most of the reward money . Their problems grew much more serious , however , when the resulting argument led to Gaila accidentally shooting and killing their own Vorta prisoner Keevan . With some creative use of some neural stimulator s , however , they were able to revive Keevan ' s body long enough distract the Dominion party , allowing Quark to rescue Ishka , while Rom and Brunt shot and killed a Jem ' Hadar soldier and took another Vorta , Yelgrun , prisoner . Brunt finally maneuvered his way to the throne by 2374 , becoming Acting Nagus after Zek was deposed by the Ferengi Commerce Authority . Zek had enacted a set of reform s to give Ferengi women equal rights . With the help of Quark , Zek regained the support of enough commissioners of the Ferengi Commerce Authority to return to his position . Brunt returned to his job as a liquidator . ( ) When Zek returned to Deep Space 9 in 2375 to install the next Grand Nagus , Brunt believed Quark was to take the throne . Ever the opportunist , he wasted no time in lavishing praise on his former enemy and offered his services as financial adviser . However , it was in fact Quark ' s brother , Rom , who was installed as Nagus . Brunt later made the same offer to Rom , though Nog did not appreciate the offer and escorted him away . It remains unclear if the new Nagus accepted . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Jeffrey Combs commented on the character of Brunt : " " I think he ' s a completely right - wing devout Ferengi . I mean , on top of being a Ferengi through - and - through , I think he is also inflexible in allowing any deviation from what he thinks are his high standards . Now , maybe that ' s the Ferengi way as well , but I don ' t see that from Quark and Rom . They ' re Ferengi through - and - through , but they seem to have a basic goodness about them . Brunt sees that as a weakness . That ' s not being a true Ferengi . They ' ve been around the Humans too long . Anyone who sets themselves up to be as self - righteous as Brunt does , always has a chink somewhere . There ' s always a weakness " " . ( " " , issue 14 ) Combs also said of Brunt , " " He was the IRS guy from hell . He ' s the guy who just kept coming back to make your life miserable , audit after audit after audit . I can imagine that that would be pretty awful . He also typified to me the inflexibility of someone who thinks their way is the right way " . " ( Hidden File 02 , DS9 Season 7 DVD special features ) On wearing Ferengi makeup Combs stated , " " Wearing makeup was never horrific because I was thankful for coming to this beautiful lot . But the Ferengi makeup was much more uncomfortable . You can ' t hear , so it ' s very difficult to modulate your voice , and as the day went on my head would start to ring . Also , you release a lot of heat from your scalp , and when you ' re wearing this big rubber thing it just gets suffocated after awhile . " " ( , p . 19 ) Apocrypha . Brunt appeared in the novel " Satisfaction Is Not Guaranteed " in " " and in the related short story " Reservoir Ferengi " in " Seven Deadly Sins " . Brunt later appears in " Rules of Accusation " .