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Line 27: \| season_article = Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 3) }} ~~__NOTOC__~~ "'''Prophet Motive'''" is the 62nd episode of the television series ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' and is the sixteenth episode of the [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 3)\|third season]]. In the episode, Grand Nagus Zek comes to the station to present Quark with a revised copy of the Rules of Acquisition, which is now a guide for generosity and benevolence. Line 34 ⟶ 33: ==Plot== [[List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters#Zek\|Grand Nagus Zek]], the ~~financial~~ leader of the [[Ferengi]] race and [[Quark (Star Trek)\|Quark's]] idol, arrives on the station and shows Quark and [[Rom (Star Trek)\|Rom]] his new project: he has rewritten the [[Rules of Acquisition]], the sacred business proverbs by which the Ferengi live. In the new book, Zek encourages Ferengi everywhere to renounce selfishness and greed and become kind and giving. Zek now wants to lead a life of altruism and wants Quark and Rom to run his charitable foundation. This horrifies Quark, because profiteering lies at the heart of Ferengi identity, and the Grand Nagus is supposed to be the paragon. Rom, meanwhile, is at first enthralled by this change of life as he is being upheld in high regard as Zek’s Senior Chairman of the charitable foundation. However, he realizes the disastrous consequences when Quark informs him that the other Ferengi would not take Zek’s change of attitude lightly and will revert to violence to prevent Zek’s from changing the Ferengi way of life. [[Julian Bashir\|Doctor Bashir]] can find no sign of mental or physical illness in Zek, and his uncharacteristic behavior does not appear to be a ruse. Wanting answers, Quark and Rom break into Zek's shuttle and discover an [[Prophet (Star Trek)#Orbs\|Orb of the Prophets]], which Zek is planning to give to the Bajorans. When Quark is exposed to the Orb, he has a vision in which Zek describes the New Rules of Acquisition as a "gift". Quark deduces that Zek visited the wormhole and contacted the [[Prophet (Star Trek)\|Prophets]] so that he could use their knowledge of the future for profit, and that they are responsible for Zek's transformation.

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