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Quark's mom is still wearing clothes and causing trouble
The Jem'Haddar have come through the worm hole in force and the Dominion has forged an alliance with the Cardassians, so it is time once again for another comic relief episode involving Quark, his mother, and those wacky Ferengi. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," Episode 118, "Ferengi Love Songs" (Written by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler, Aired April 21, 1997) finds Quark (Armin Shimerman) so depressed over being blacklisted by the Ferengi Commerce Authority, that he goes home to get some love and sympathy from his mother, Ishka (Cecily Adams, taking over for Andrea Martin). But mom is not happy to see Quark and when he finds the Grand Nagus hiding in the closet of his old bedroom, he learns the shocking truth: Ishka and Zek are having an affair. Zek wants Quark to keep the affair secret, and Quark quickly agrees seeing an opportunity to get his license back.

However, the opportunity actually comes form the FCA, who want him to break up the romance. The bad news is that Quark succeeds, at which point he learns something even more surprising about dear old Mom, which is really the entire point of this episode. But if you do not see the punch line of this one coming from early on then you simply have not been paying attention to the continuing story of Ishka. I mean, the woman is wearing clothes; how much more of a clue do you need? With this comic little contrivance I realize how far the Ferengi have come from the when we first met them on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and they were these mysterious aliens with big ears and whips. Even with the Rules of Acquisition I find it hard to believe the Ferengi ever manage to turn a profit. Of course, there is some fun to be had making up lyrics to a song to go along with the title (using the music of Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs," of course).

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A Ferengi episode!
Quark is upset, earlier he lost his trading licence which prohibits him from doing business with other Ferengi, something he misses. So he decides to head back to Ferenginar to cheer himself up, something I don't know why he does as he hates his mother. Any way, in a quick visit it is revealed that Quark's mother is dating Grand Master Zek!

Brunt arrives shortly after, the guy everyone loves-to-hate who will really start to grow on you in this episode, he offeres Quark a deal: split up the happy couple and he can have his licence back. Quark does but then the whole Ferengi economy begins to fall apart, Quark realises that his mother is the one who has 'the lobes for business' and that she is the one person that is keeping the economy going and that if she dates Zek again her influence on him will make everything all right - again.

But getting the couple to date again may be harder then he thought. A mediocre episode that would be a lot better if Zek had more scenes - that guy is hilarious!