Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Rom

8. Prinadora! We Don't Adore Her!

Before we rush to judge Rom's first wife, we should remember that Ferengi society holds up a mirror to our own. In the West, marriage has only comparatively recently — and especially for a fee-male — become 'all about love'. A contract is a contract is still a contract between hew-mons. In Rom's case, it was, in Quark's words:

A standard five year marriage contract with Prinadora's father […] to have a child. A simple everyday business deal.

Rom fell in love. The father-in-law "swindled". Prinadora left "for a richer man," probably with humungous lobes. That almost wasn't the end for the ex-contractually obliged cohabitators, however. As detailed in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, the writers had planned for the B-story of the sixth season episode Change of Heart to centre on Rom and Nog, with Nog's mother paying a visit to the Station.

The scenes were cut as producer Ira Steven Behr wasn't a fan of the "basic concept". "It was about Rom being hoodwinked by this woman all over again, but it just did not work," he noted in the Deep Space Nine Companion. Nevertheless, some fans still got to see what might have been between the former spouses.

At 2002's Slanted Fedora Entertainment convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Max Grodénchik, his then fiancée, and Trek production alum, Lolita Fatjo, Chase Masterson, and Aron Eisenberg performed the un-filmed Prinadora plot from Change of Heart as part of 'The Ferengi Family Hour'.