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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ferengi episodes in Enterprise:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guys, I’m m only on season 3 of DS9. Can you give me some time before interesting me in other flavors of Trek?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Bold move starting with DS9

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Strap in, shit's about to get REAL

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And now I want to watch a spinoff series set on Ferenginar.

A spy series full of corporate deception and intrigue?

A sitcom?

🤔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A pro-capitalism parody of Star Trek that criticizes the US, and is canonically a show produced and shown by Ferengi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Even just a feranginar news show or something would be aces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not really a fan of how DS9 just turned them in to Flanderized comic relief.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The first TNG episode with them ends with them literally jumping around on all fours while wearing furs and howling like cavemen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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