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"What I want is not in your catalog."
"Well, tell me what it is and I'll order it for you. It may take some time, but if it exists I'll get it."
"That's just the point, Quark. The program I want doesn't exist. Not yet, anyway."
– Tiron and Quark, 2371 ("Meridian")
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"I've been waiting for you."

Kira Nerys was a custom holoprogram contracted by Tiron, a wealthy business associate of Quark's, devised after becoming obsessed with Major Kira Nerys, who had recently rebuffed him. Tiron offered Quark one bar of gold-pressed latinum and an ornate ring to create the next best thing.

After two failed attempts to capture Kira's likeness – first by trying to lure her into the holosuite, then trying to take images of her with a holo-imager – Quark finally purchased a high-level decryption protocol to illegally access her personnel file, acquiring namely her voiceprint, retinal scan, and psychiatric profile. Quark's plan was detected by Odo, but instead of arresting him, he and Kira decided to turn the tables on Quark by changing the program's character. They placed Quark's head on Kira's body while she was waiting behind the gossamer curtains on the four-poster bed, sending Tiron storming out of Quark's, swearing that he would ruin Quark for his failure. (DS9: "Meridian")

"Kira" was a combined portrayal of body double Leah Burrough, Armin Shimerman's head, and Nana Visitor's voice. Burrough filled in after Visitor panicked when she had to wear the rubber head, which was filled in with Shimerman's head in post production. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 187)
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