Ferengi episodes in Enterprise:
Ferengi in DISCO:
Ferengi in TOS:
He would.
Guys, I’m m only on season 3 of DS9. Can you give me some time before interesting me in other flavors of Trek?
Bold move starting with DS9
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.
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.
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.
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.
