DaiMon Goss was a 24th century Ferengi and the commanding officer of a D'Kora-class marauder. In 2366, he demanded the right to negotiate on behalf of the Ferengi for rights to the Barzan wormhole. Though he had not been invited to the proceedings by the Barzans, Premier Bhavani agreed to allow their participation.
Despite Goss' bluster, however, the Ferengi did not have the resources to compete fairly with the bids of the Federation or Chrysalians. In an effort to gain an edge Arridor distilled pyrocytes from Goss' blood which were used to provoke an extreme allergic reaction in the Federation's chief negotiator, Mendoza. When Mendoza fell ill, William T. Riker was forced to take his place. Riker nearly succeeded in winning the rights to the wormhole for the Federation but an alliance between Goss and Devinoni Ral, representing the Chrysalians, gave Ral the upper hand.
Goss and Ral were so eager to obtain the rights to the wormhole that they did not wait until the results of a mission through the wormhole were analyzed. When Goss' consuls Arridor and Kol became trapped in the Delta Quadrant by the shifting terminus of the wormhole its value as a resource disappeared and Goss was left with no profit to show for his work. (TNG: "The Price")
Goss was played by actor Scott Thomson.
In an either omitted or deleted scene that appears in the episode's script was a depiction of the interaction between Ral and Goss that lead to Goss' bluff of destroying the wormhole. In the Scene 65 and 66, immediately following Riker's toast to Ral in Ten Forward, Ral watches as Goss is "at a table trying to pick up a couple of sexy crew women... but as he sits, they exchange a look and leave. Goss is disappointed." Ral joined Goss at the table and explained to the Ferengi that "Federation women have a game they call "playing hard to get"," a game which Goss was all too aware of, and which he "[did] not at all find it amusing." Ral then dangles the fact that "on Chrysalia, the women outnumber the men four to one. They virtually throw themselves at your feet..." ending the scene with the note, "As Goss' interest perks up considerably..." This scene was immediately followed with Goss' ship leaving orbit and moving to the mouth of the wormhole.
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- Goss at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works