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.
Gonna need a few rewrites
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BeardedSingleMalt@startrek.website 11 months ago
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
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.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This man has the lobes for business
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ferengi move pretty fast. Faster than light if in the right kind of ship.
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 11 months ago
They had no idea what they wanted to do with Ferengi in this episode. By the end, they are downright feral. Wearing furs and jumping around screaming like cavemen. After watching them in later episodes, this one just feels really weird to see.
7of9@startrek.website 11 months ago
Every world has the equivalent of Trump supporters, I guess
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
silence
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As I remember they had some phaser whips as weapons.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I forgot that detail lol. Let’s take energy weapon technology that can shoot in a perfectly straight line…and artificially limit its range and utility.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish their neat energy whip came back though.
Odo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It did in Lower Decks’ most recent season. Yet another reason to love that show.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Being a semi-parody allows them to reference the most embarrassing bits of the canon with a protective layer of irony.
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Whips were all the rage, see Indiana Jones.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
fluxion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hell of a twist if that was revealed after all the initial interactions. The ultimate grift to put the Federation off guard.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We don’t talk about it with outsiders
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More like the ultimate friend
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HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
There’s a case to be made for dueling what is essentially a post-scarcity socialist Federation against the embodiment of capitalism-as-cult.
Conversely, the Borg are in a way aspirational-- growing and assimilating knowledge and improvements seems a bit higher of a goal, but their presentation comes off ham-fisted.
I feel like there’s a missing explanation of why “assimilating the diversity” of a civilization needs to be a total stripmine rather than taking a few (potentially willing) representatives and regularly coming back in case anything new evolved, like binge-watching a civilization every few years. The stripmining aspect seems necessary to make them recognizabily villianous-- the enemy of sacred individuality rather than just data hoarders whose homelabs turned into giant cubes.
It does feel like Latinum is very much a MacGuffin for undermining a huge amount of “we have virtually infinite free energy and can replicate anything we need” worldbuilding; they needed a way to make 24th century capitalism seem remotely plausible.
7of9@startrek.website 11 months ago
The Borg became a metaphor for colonialism, I think, with assimilation being an “improvement” for it’s victims.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I never though of it that way. You are completely right.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I almost feeling like you’re describing the Trill or the Tokra regarding willing assimilation.
Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’ve always assumed that the Borg were once a truly egalitarian faction. One that seeks out other points of view in order to invite them into a collective where every voice has a share in the overall direction of the whole. I could see such a collective evolving into the current Star Trek Borg if things like fascism take root. A rabid xenophobia of thought that seeks to destroy any ‘wrong-think’ within the hive mind. It would explain a lot of the problems that the Borg seem to have. Why they never seem to learn from their mistakes despite their adaptability, why they all share one mind despite their quest for distinctiveness, why they have a single load-bearing queen despite their usual priority of hyper redundancy in all things.