But they did build the coolest ships around. I love their designs.. I would choose a ferengi runabout as my personal ship

@@joshythehand2960 Ferengi ingenuity!

I can only imagine the price negotiations.

Fair

I see your point, but greed is more of a feeling or drive , possibly goal but far fetched to call it a goal. The Borg is way different.

@@cvasirocket1401 I get that you're trying to inject nuance, but I don't see the nuance mentioned. Not saying it's not there, just not seeing it as you've described it

Jews are

​@@ThommyofThennand their progress is all due to moogie's scheming

Eat the bugs!

TNG: The Price and VOY: False Profits!

"the crew of Voyager encounters them", you mean "a rogue federation captain attempting to enforce federation law on non federation members well outside of federation territory against the best interest of her crew". I know Voyager gets a bad rep, but I actually think it gets too much hate. However this episode just boils my piss!

@@sabin97 It's billions, as a Muslim we celebrate the penultimate prophet as well as Muhammad.

@@sabin97 Islam is the worship of the Sumerian Moon God NANNAR SIN who was a son of ENLIL, the tyrannical individual who became known as Yahweh that the jews specifically worshipped after they moved on from their worship of the child sacrifice god Baal.

@@sabin97 Sorry, when you went immediately racial on me I lost interest in the rest of what you had to say. I have no patience with racists and detest them. However I did read what you wrote but you have a lot of it wrong. I can see you are writing from an elitist muslim/arabist point of view but your immediate racism has put me off discussing things further with you. I’ll leave it there.

Nog was great. You're right about the expansion of the definition of profit for him. Very smart, very tenacious, great hearing, great combination. Be made a lot of early Jake scenes much better, I think that's why they expanded his role.

today we even have to struggle against revisionist history for many reasons. Could be something similar

Well if we get into technicality (which makes sense for ferengi) quark wasn't the one commiting genocide he was just enabling it

@@ethanwall2443 Pretty much this. Their own species doesn't commit genocides. But if other species are committing it and there's profit in it for the Ferengi, they may disagree with how the merchandise will be used, but if the profit for them is big enough, they won't care too much. What the buyers do with their merchandise once they have it is none of the Ferengi's concern. If profit was made, then their goal has been achieved. The more reprehensible the act, the bigger the profit would need to be for them to justify it, but if the paycheck is big enough, they'll do it. To further go into this, there is a conversation between Quark and... I think it was Nog, where Nog (or whoever it was) mentions that the humans used to irradiate their own planet, which seemingly horrifies both Quark and Nog. This would imply that the Ferengi may be a backstabbing, underhanded and selfserving species, but they do have limits to how cruel they are willing to be, particularly to their own kind. It's also possible that they realize that there is no long term profit to be made from people who are about to die of radiation poisoning and if it's bad enough to affect their entire planet and potentially wipe out their entire species, well... you can't make profit if you're dead is one of their rules of acquisition, if I'm not mistaken. The Ferengi do seem to disdain murder on a massive scale, most likely because you can't do business with people that are dead.

They have good PR

Nog too said it, so it's probably true.

People keep saying TNG did the Ferengi dirty, but I disagree. In TNG it was how the Ferengi were seen, in DS9 it was how they really were. Had TNG done a better job with them DS9 would have been slightly more constricted in what they could do. The Ferengi was almost a blank slate, which was great.

@@Oonagh72 Agree

@@Oonagh72 There are some cringe moments especially in episodes with Quark's mom. Overall though the Ferengi on DS9 were handled expectionally well. Brunt was always fun. Quark & Odo were fantastic. Rom & Nog has great character arcs. And getting Wallace Shawn as Zek is a treat.

why?

He had some weird ideas all right. But all we're getting without him is bad war fanfiction

Star Trek has only gotten worse without him and he made the damn thing. You loco?

Oh my God, it had to have been A LOT 😂. Just like when he wanted Troi to have three breasts.

@@OrangeRiver Roddenberry is not alone. Even today we now have the two dicked klingon.

why?

Ah-nold, baby! total recall

Thank you Clint!

He’s very good!!!

Totally agree fantastic channel.

@@retiredguy7273 RIGHT?! I was stunned to see he has videos going back for years. Like dude is awesome, why hadn't KZfaq suggested his channel to me years ago?

Thank you! I always try to uncover what makes a species biologically and historically unique.

Star Trek meets Duck Tales

American Foreign Policy in a nutshell

"To greedily go where lesser gold pressed latinum seekers have gone before."

I've wished the same thing,many times...There is so much to unpack with the I Ferengi. I always enjoyed the DS9 episodes featuring them the most.

People could barely tolerate 1 or 2 ferengi episodes per season. No way would a ferengi series work

Remember to pay your debts though for the great counter!

Is that a jewish proverb?

In commerce and trade yes!

Hey have you ever made a video about the Binars or the planet Binus? I'd be interested in knowing more about the history of progression of that planet. How they became symbiotic with their supercomputer 🔭

@@matthew944 The Bynars have always interested me as well! Lots of people have wanted me to talk about some of the other cybernetic species in Star Trek besides the Borg--I'll have to do some more research on that.

I imagine that the Ferengi will be like the US after WW2. After WW2, most of the world was digging out of the ashes of the war. But American farms and factories were untouched. As a result, for a good long time, America exported product to the rest of the world which made America rich and an economic superpower. The same can be said of the Ferengi. They stayed out of the Dominion War. After such a draining war, the Alpha Quadrant has to rebuild. Which puts the Ferengi in a unique position to exploit the situation. Like America, they can become an economic superpower.

I stumbled across crude asshats on the Internet commenting that the Ferengi seem to utilize the racist tropes and stereotypes of the Jewish. Never thought of it like that, but after it was pointed out, I kind of hate that I enjoyed the antics so much and I was hoping you could dispel any suspicion that it was an intentional choice.

Are you implying that the sugar plantations founded in the Caribbean during the 17th Century were not Capitalist? Or that Antebellum America was not? If so, I'd love to hear your theory on how they were not. As it stands, your argument echoes Marxists waxing on about how "THAT wasn't Communism!"

Naug, son of Rom made the cultural leap and enlisted in Star Fleet Academy. Bravery earned him the rank of lieutenant.

For profit

Ric is a fantastic creator! I appreciate the support!

those were the true antagonist that Gene hoped for, the ones with the cool looking ships(i love them more than Klingon and Romulan ships). and they weren’t easy to beat, they went toe to toe with the Federation’s best ship and damn near won!

Or simply they have a longer period of space expansion, warp was acquired around the 21st century but the could have been using other means of travel like the bajoran solar ships or sub warp colony ships. That may also explain the relatively small area the alliance covers.

Well originally the ferengi what's said to be yankee traders, so I guess that fits.

You must remember.. although omnivores.. for most of human development out protein intake was insects. If we came across a kill and scavenged it. .. that was great.. but for the first million Years, 99% of our animal protein intake was insects.. which actually have 5 times the protein per pound. It's most likely what supercharged brain growth until we mastered fire and were able to pre digest the meat through cooking and get more.out of it. Bats are actually the most successful mammals in the world as far as diversity, locations, population

This all sounds very interesting but for the life of me, I have no way of verifying if it's remotely true...starting with the fact that "Ethiopian" isn't a language :/

@@OrangeRiver Amharic is the most common one in the country, as it is used by the government and spoken as first or second language by virtually all Ethiopians.

I think it came from a non-canon story that they purchased warp drive from the Breen

Holy crap, this is a well thought out explanation. Well done. We often tend to overlook pre-warp space travel in a lot of Trek societies-- just because humans went from Yuri Gagarin to Zefram Cochrane in just over a century doesn't mean other species would do it that quickly.

@@OrangeRiver Thanks! Yeah, I feel like well-established pre-warp spacefarers are underutilized in the franchise. Could be interesting in fleshing out lore for existing species and yet to be introduced ones, could provide an interesting angle for prime directive episodes.

I think they could be named whatever the sysop wanted, he just happened to name them that :)

The secret of course, is just because they don't use money, doesn't make everything free. Having your own spacecraft for example was really, really rare. You had to be some sort of super scientist to convince the federation to give you a warp-2 shuttlecraft.

I heard one word for rain was "Podrushing". I'm not sure if the correct spelling.

He literally says where it comes from in the video

It is canon! The Great Bird of the Galaxy* decreed it! *(Gene Roddenberry)

I can't remember how much their diet is discussed in other shows (perhaps it is in TNG). DS9's my favorite Trek show, so I hope you enjoy it!

You've watched all but DS9? Honestly that's probably the best way to go about it, it would make the others so much less disappointing.