The Bronta Trade Scout is a common vessel used by influential Ferengi to explore unknown space in search of new, lucrative trade deals to be had with unsuspecting new alien races. Each Bronta scout has only a small crew, most of the ship's internal volume being maximized to carry enough trinkets and baubles to make an initial fortune selling such items to any pre-warp or early interstellar civilization they should come across.

In battles before 2213 replace each pair of light plasmic disruptors with one light plasma cannon each and reduce the size of the ship's reactor by 4 boxes. This was the typical armament before the light plasmic disruptor became widely available.