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Louise Fletcher was incredible
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She belongs in a best villains of all time list. Like, kudos to whomever said “let’s cast Nurse Ratched” and have her slowly go mad with supernatural power.
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I love to hate her characters. She’s always plays the deepest, most well formed villains. Brilliant stuff.
I clicked your link. And now I am mad again.
I fucking love that episode where they go to the other station to do the prisoner exchange. And Iggy Pop is so fucking brilliant in that episode! He’s fucking hilarious!
I love the one where they go back in time and They’re literally the Roswell aliens and as soon as Quark can communicate starts trying to scam the humons
We both know that each of these episodes, at their core, are stupid as fuck.
Not everything needs to be measure of a man.
Odo was a dog, your argument is invalid
I know I am in the minority, but Goddamn I can’t stand the Ferengi
Because of your lack of profit?
They probably just need to get some oo-mox
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No Latinum for you then!
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Slightly disgusting, yet very profitable.
Part of the shame of it is too, that Quark could give some pretty darn good advice when asked. But they never used that plot device very much, which I thought was a shame because with his devious wisdom, he really had a unique take on things.
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The first one is one of the best quotes in Trek
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“Do you think they’ll be able to save us?”
What about the House of Quark. Does the presence of Klingons dilute the Ferengi frustration, or amplify it?
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I’m the total opposite. I find the whole Klingon obsession with honor annoying, so watching a Ferengi uncover an entire plot to take down a house because the Klingons couldn’t conceive of something so “dishonorable” is just funny lol
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That’s the thing though. I think people talk about “silly Ferengi crap” and while obviously they are intended as a sort of parody of American capitalism and all that, they are a ruthlessly logical species and culture.
I think the Klingons tolerated Quark because the situation was so strange, and Quark exploited the Klingon’s system of honor. The Klingons were shellshocked from the idea of a Klingon woman marrying a Ferengi to take over her house. I think they were genuinely a bit curious to see how a Ferengi would respect their rules, and it seems Quark demonstrated an adequate understanding of how their honor worked (even though he didn’t agree at all with it) for them to give him a chance. He used two trait which any good entrepreneur would have: the ability to take risky moves, and good social awareness.
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I really tried to like them, mostly because Armin Shimerman was amazing as Quark (and ok, Rahm was kinda lovable in his own stupid way). But Ferengi Love Songs and all the creepy family shit ruined it completely for me. I’d give all my latinum to have nothing to do with Ferenginar.
By any chance, are you German? Because of ‘Rahm’…
Haha. Also, ich lerne tatsächlich seit 3 Jahren Deutschesprache.
But no, I last watched Voyager before that, 5-6 years ago. I just assumed that’s how it was spelled. TIL it’s Rom.
Das ist lustig! Rahm ist ein anderes Wort für Sahne, also cream.
Ja! As I recall he’s kind of a momma’s boy so it sorta fits.
They are way too much one-dimensional.
If you’ve watched DS9, you know that’s not true.
They tried to do this with Quark family, but that was still very plain.
They made it to 2D in DS9, but that’s still not enough dimensions. Doesn’t mean other important characters weren’t left wanting in a similar way, but still.
Am I the only fan who skipped most of the Ferengi focused episodes?
One of the few I don’t skip is the Magnificent Feeengi, because Iggy Pop is brilliant as a Vorta.
I did watch that one. I never noticed that was Iggy Pop! He looks quite freaky as a Vorta, even more than he already does as a human.
Everyone keeps mentioning Magnificent Ferengi for Iggy Pop and I’m like “you’re not even gonna mention that it’s basically Weekend at Bernie’s?!”
