the pretext of using the bar to store furniture while portions of the station are under repair. Even though Quark is cut off from Ferengi society (except for his brother Rom), he is back in business and feeling richer than before due to the friends he never imagined he had. Meanwhile, the pregnant Keiko O'Brien is injured in a runabout accident; to save both her and the pregnancy, Dr. Bashir performs emergency surgery to transfer the fetus into Major Kira's body. Kira has no problem with being a surrogate mother, but Keiko and her husband Miles are at first uncomfortable with the thought of another woman carrying their child. They eventually come to terms with it, and ask Kira to move in with them so they can be closer to the child. Production The writers had learned that Nana Visitor was pregnant and were not sure how to work her pregnancy into the show. They had already made Keiko O'Brien pregnant and did not want to have two visibly pregnant characters, but they did not want to limit Kira Nerys either by hiding her behind a desk, as they had done with Gates McFadden's character in Star Trek: The Next Generation during her pregnancy. Ira Behr mentioned this to his wife Laura and she simply suggested they move the baby from Keiko to Kira. Science consultant André Bormanis thought the idea strained credulity, but it was his job to make it at least sound plausible. Bormanis consulted with a pathologist John Glasco who thought it was implausible although maybe not impossible with the help of future technology. "Body Parts" was directed by Avery Brooks, the actor who portrayed Sisko. Reception The episode received a Nielsen rating of 5.1 on its initial airdate. A 2014 retrospective by Keith R. A. DeCandido praised the episode and scored it an 8/10. DeCandido wrote that the acting for the Ferengi characters, in particular Max Grodénchik (Rom), was excellent, and supported an interesting exploration of both how Quark was similar and also differed from Ferengi culture as a whole. While he thought the Kira / Keiko pregnancy subplot was obviously artificial, it was clearly there to service a real-world need, did not take up too much time, and enabled later episodes to use Visitor in an unrestricted fashion without need for tricky camera angles. In 2018, SyFy recommend the episode in an abbreviated watch guide