Por que Rom pôde se levantar para se tornar o líder dos Ferengis, dado que ele foi retratado como um perdedor?

O Nagus nomeia seu sucessor.

ZEK: Shh. A new Ferenginar needs a new kind of Nagus. A kinder, gentler Nagus. And that's you, my boy. It's a great responsibility to stand at the bow of the Ferengi ship of state. A Nagus has to navigate the waters of the Great Material Continuum, avoid the shoals of bankruptcy and seek the strong winds of prosperity.

(Rom takes the staff from Zek.)

ROM: I'll do the best I can.

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QUARK: Did you know this Congress of Economic Meddlers actually passed legislation making monopolies illegal? What's the point of being in business if you can't corner the market and gouge your customers?

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QUARK: You can't even dump industrial waste anymore because it might harm the natural habitat. I'm supposed to start worrying about animals now? Look how they live, wallowing in dirt, sleeping in trees. That's not natural.

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QUARK: I read a report that over forty percent of the population no longer believes that you have to buy your way into the Divine Treasury when you die.

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QUARK: They don't teach children the Rules of Acquisition anymore.

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Fora do universo, o produtor executivo Ira Behr e o ator / diretor René Echevarria falaram sobre as mudanças que a sociedade de Ferengi teve que passar para fazer a história de Rom ser crível.

We had to figure out what would happen to Ferengi society that would enable Rom to become the Nagus. We were in love with the idea, but Rom wasn't up to being the Nagus of the old Ferenginar. They'd eat him alive. But to oversee a new Ferenginar that had a heart and compassion and was trying to be more progressive, well Rom has those qualities."

As René Echevarria elaborates, "To some extent, we'd laid some pipe in that direction with Moogie's influence on the Nagus. The audience had accepted the leap Moogie had accomplished for females, so we figured they'd be able to make this leap too

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Resposta curta: sua mãe de alguma forma convenceu o atual Grand Nagus, que por acaso era seu amante, que Rom era a pessoa certa para o trabalho uma vez que Zek se aposentasse. Zek então nomeou-o o novo Grand Nagus - até onde sabemos, nenhum voto ou confirmação foi necessário.

Zek também teve uma memória ruim, e foi visto várias vezes esquecendo muitas coisas importantes.