Actually Shimerman portrayed Quark in the opening episode of Voyager, as well as in a TNG episode.
He also played the part of the first ever ferengi to appear on ST. I think the show was called The last outpost. In the extramaterial of DS9 he begs the forgivness of the audience for that portrayal, and sees the role of Quark as a way to correct the mistakes he did playing that ferengi so horribly badly. Kind of giving the ferengi race a more threedimensional face, not just as some sort of snarling cavemonster which he originally did. The ferengi were supposted to be the next klingons, the great threat to the federation, but no one could take them seriously after the last outpost so they basicly vanished, returned in 2 or 2 shows in TNG, and then of course Quark came along and brought them into the light, which made both Enterprise (even though human supposedly wouldn't meet ferengi until picards days) and voyager (even though they were in the delta quadrant they managed to stumble unto the ferengi! Three adventurers who had been sucked into a wormhole in a TNG episode) have ferengi episodes.
He also played the part of the first ever ferengi to appear on ST. I think the show was called The last outpost. In the extramaterial of DS9 he begs the forgivness of the audience for that portrayal, and sees the role of Quark as a way to correct the mistakes he did playing that ferengi so horribly badly. Kind of giving the ferengi race a more threedimensional face, not just as some sort of snarling cavemonster which he originally did. The ferengi were supposted to be the next klingons, the great threat to the federation, but no one could take them seriously after the last outpost so they basicly vanished, returned in 2 or 2 shows in TNG, and then of course Quark came along and brought them into the light, which made both Enterprise (even though human supposedly wouldn't meet ferengi until picards days) and voyager (even though they were in the delta quadrant they managed to stumble unto the ferengi! Three adventurers who had been sucked into a wormhole in a TNG episode) have ferengi episodes.
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