Ferengi episodes in Enterprise:
Guys, I’m m only on season 3 of DS9. Can you give me some time before interesting me in other flavors of Trek?
Strap in, shit’s about to get REAL
Bold move starting with DS9
Ferengi in DISCO:
Ferengi in TOS:
He would.
And now I want to watch a spinoff series set on Ferenginar.
A spy series full of corporate deception and intrigue?
A sitcom?
🤔
A pro-capitalism parody of Star Trek that criticizes the US, and is canonically a show produced and shown by Ferengi.
Even just a feranginar news show or something would be aces.
I’m not really a fan of how DS9 just turned them in to Flanderized comic relief.
The joke isn’t Quark, it’s his scheming. Rom ends up getting the girl, the respect and the throne, and Nog goes on a helluva narrative of teen idiocy, rejecting your societal values, driving for something more, survivng war, lifelong injury and PTSD
They were already too goofy to be taken as a serious enemy. They were meant to be the big bad instead of the Borg, originally.
Exactly, TNG made them one dimensional and unintentionally laughable. DS9 took that foundation and let their civilization be a joke, while still allowing characters to be properly fleshed out.
I would have personally preferred a more grounded and nuanced society for them, but that’s true of a lot of Star Trek’s world building. They’ve always had a preference for making everything a planet of hats.
The first TNG episode with them ends with them literally jumping around on all fours while wearing furs and howling like cavemen.
The overhead on a war with Starfleet is overshadowed by the potential profits of simply cheating them out of their resources. Plus, they can call on their assistance as muscle… if they have a good enough excuse.
I still find it odd that in TNG they were known to the federation only by rumor. Yet by DS9 they’re a long running cornerstone of finance and commerce in the alpha quadrant.
