It still gets me that the Ferengi were mostly unknown to the Federation, yet by the time of DS9 they’re almost a widely known cornerstone of economics in the Alpha Quadrant.
Rule of Acquisition #45: Expand or die.
Rule of Acquisition #75: Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum.
Rule of Acquisition #9: Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
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This man has the lobes for business
Ferengi move pretty fast. Faster than light if in the right kind of ship.
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Every world has the equivalent of Trump supporters, I guess
Rent free
As I remember they had some phaser whips as weapons.
I wish their neat energy whip came back though.
It did in Lower Decks. Yet another reason to love that show.
Whips were all the rage, see Indiana Jones.
Hell of a twist if that was revealed after all the initial interactions. The ultimate grift to put the Federation off guard.
We don’t talk about it with outsiders
It’s all in the writing, I guess. It’d be a kind of bungling, stumbling, weird encounter, random, campy, never know what they’re going to do, villian.
*There were a decent villian in “Peak Performance” (the strategema episode). You just need that off species to be a counter.
More like the ultimate friend