DS9 basically re-invented the Ferengi and the Trekverse is all the better for it.
Armin Shimerman played a Ferengi in their first TNG episode. He felt his responsibility on DS9 was to redeem them from that performance.
And he succeeded.
I recall reading a long while ago that Gene Roddenberry had planned for the Ferengi to be the main antagonists for TNG, but after a couple episodes, market testing showed that people didn’t like them, so they ended up created the Borg instead as a new nemisis.
Looking back to early seasons, I can see that direction and agree with the focus groups lol. A while later in “The Price” they’re a lot more like the Ferengi in DS9 though still kind of skulky.
Hot take: parasites are particularly insidious when they’re stationary. Mosquitoes are the worst, but they’re more analogous to pirates: hit & run buggers. Sessile boys like hydatid cysts, ticks, mites, lice, and fleas learn to subvert the local order and just cheat the system like a macroscopic disease.
… Imagine an alternate timeline, where the borg had not decided the ferengi were unworthy of assimilation… and the combination of the two were the main antagonist. Totalitarian hive mind ruthless capitalist.
Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
(Rules of Acquisition: Rule 9; “The Storyteller” [DS9])
Trill and Bajoran cleaned up too.
Staring Jeffrey Combs as the Ferengi Bullshit instigator
I really wish Lower Decks had done some time travel craziness guest staring Jeffrey Combs as Tiron and Jeffery Combs as Weyouns 4 to 7, Jeffery Combs as Brunt, Jeffery Combs as Penk, Jeffery Combs as Krem, Jeffery Combs as Thy’lek Shran, Jeffery Combs as AGIMUS and introducing Jeffrey Combs as The Borg Q King.
Jeffrey Combs: “So which role do you want me to reprise this time?”
Casting Director: “Yes.”
Eh… DS9 easily takes the cake for peak Ferengi
I agree completely. Just found the meme amusing :)
What about Enterprise
What about Enterprise
What about Enterprise
jk.
Yeah.
It was good how they managed to sneak a Ferengi episode into ENT, and have it not mess up the official first contact timeline, since it wasn’t properly recorded.
… Could have had more energy whips though. ;)
If you take Enterprise as cannon, you’re likely watching Star Trek through the holo diaries of Picard and co.
They hold a strong anti-Ferengi bias, and those chronicles are not to be trusted.
We all know the Star Gazer fired on an unarmed Ferengi ship, and it is federation policy to hide that fact.
Ferengi are too ugly and gross. Their characters evolved well in DS9 but I wish they looked (and sounded) different.
But apparently socially acceptable, because they’re Ferengi.
