And that eventually led to his performing the role of 'Quark' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Shimerman ended up being one of the first four Ferengi. Because of the role's makeup, they didn't have that problem on The Next Generation. When actors first do a role, most shows will make them wait a minimum of four years (if they go that long) before they offer them another role. The producers had just worked with Shimerman, and this was the one show that didn't cancel actors out if they had worked on the show before. He told Beauty and the Beast he couldn't make it, and did his one day on The Next Generation on ' Haven.' Two weeks later, the producers were looking for short character actors to play Ferengi on The Next Generation. Shimerman told his agent that he was a big fan of the show and that he really wanted to do Star Trek. Since he was a huge Star Trek fan, he told his agent that he wanted to do the one day on The Next Generation, but his agent was nonplussed, and suggested Shimerman take the Beauty and the Beast gig, because that was his regular paycheck and Star Trek was a one-time situation, or so he thought. Shimerman recalls that there was a conflict between the day he was needed to shoot on The Next Generation and the day they needed him to shoot on Beauty and the Beast. He was offered a very small role on Star Trek: The Next Generation, that of a ' gift box face' in the 'Haven' episode for Marina Sirtis's character, Counselor Troi. In the early 1980s, Shimerman was doing a television show called 'Beauty and the Beast.' The shooting of Star Trek: The Next Generation had just begun at that point. He continued to watch the shows in syndication as he grew older. As a teenager, Shimerman was a fan of the original series when it originally aired, and would sit home on Wednesday nights to see all the episodes.

Quark actor