We don't know what he keeps in his bedroom.
Spoilers My main suspects for the anomaly.
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The 284th Rule of Acquisition: Keep your kinks to yourself, unless you can profit by sharing them.
These two dogs are the same species:
These two Ferengi are the same species:
There is significantly more variation in phenotype between the two dogs than there is between the two Ferengi.
A single species can encompass a great deal of variation in phenotype. Just think about how differently human noses, lips, ears, eyes, and skin can look from person to person and from population to population. Almost nothing about the new Ferengi makeup design is as different from the old design as the differences in real-life that exist between human populations.
The only substantive difference between the two designs from an anatomical perspective is that the DIS-era Ferengi seems to lack the cranial ridge that connects to the upper helix of the ear. That could be the result of some sort of genetic engineering or species intermixing, or, it could be that the Ferengi have always had two distinct gene pools characterized by that particular variation.
Hell, there are humans today who have much more prominent brow ridges than others and other such variations in skull shape; often they have some Neanderthal ancestry. Maybe there's a subset of the Ferengi species that has ancestry from a Ferengi cousin species that's equivalent in their evolutionary history to the role that Neanderthals played in Human evolutionary history.
Either way, it's really not enough to say that they look like different species.
I mean, it was probably both. More than likely, modern cameras pick up too much detail for 90s-era makeup elements to look credible, so they needed to come up with new makeup elements, and more than likely they decided to also indulge in their creativity a bit and change up the design a little as well.
It's the ears. He looks ... I dunno, aquatic?
Funny how they leave well enough alone with species that are almost human looking (pointy ears, crinkled noses), but if you're in the latex face / bumpy forehead camp - prepare for reimagining.
Actually as I type that I remembered Morn's species looks much the same. I dunno what they could do to reimagine the Lurians - a hair piece?
Funny how they leave well enough alone with species that are almost human looking (pointy ears, crinkled noses), but if you're in the latex face / bumpy forehead camp - prepare for reimagining.
Actually as I type that I remembered Morn's species looks much the same. I dunno what they could do to reimagine the Lurians - a hair piece?
He doesn't look aquatic to me. The variation in the ears seems well within a plausible range of variation within a species to me. It's just a slightly different cartilage structure.
It's just a matter of subjective aesthetics. Some things they want to reimagine a bit, others they don't. Star Trek is a work of art, not a documentary, and art will always involve some decisions that are aesthetically subjective.
Eh, they look like a different interpretation of Ferengi, but there are some big differences, like lacking the brow-ridge which runs from ear to ear. Also, the few glimpses of teeth we have seen are totally different - human looking instead of the random, small sharp snaggle teeth we saw in Ferengi before. Really only the giant ears say Ferengi to me.
Also worth noting we've seen Ferengi on both Lower Decks and now Prodigy, and they look like Berman-era Ferengi (with maybe the exception of the female Ferengi shown on Prodigy having large ears, when DS9 established females have small ears, but there's any number of ways to explain this).
I simply don't buy the whole "makeup has evolved" line however, because in general I have found Discovery makeup choices to be questionable to awful. Their go-to for everything seems to be silicone masks which cover everything from the neck up. Berman Trek avoided this. For example, the Ferengi makeup explicitly didn't cover up the lower face - it was the actors real mouth/chin, which let them have some facial expression. The Discovery makeup crew even slathered full masks on friggin Orions - who look exactly like humans aside from being green. It's so puzzling to me, because it makes it impossible for the actors to even crack a smile.
Regardless, what the Disco Ferengi are is a different artistic interpretation of the classic Ferengi. I can say with some certainty if we ever see Quark on Picard or whatever, he's going to look pretty much like he always did, because a lot of this just seems tied to the particular makeup team Discovery uses, not Kurtzman Trek in general. And in this particular case, the overdesigned "mask" doesn't bother me, because...well...the Ferengi are just extras.
What I don't want it to be is something benevolent. I know it's weird to say that given that we saw it only be destructive, but, I think it would be very cool if it was some ancient technology that was built centuries ago that has evolved into something much larger over time. Or perhaps similar to the planet killer, it could just be an artifact of an ancient war between several species. The Discovery crew could get to the heart of what it is and it, in turn, would be something that teaches them something about themselves and their own existence.
I just know I don't want it to be some mustache-twirling villain who wants to destroy all life in the galaxy. Enough. Please.
I just know I don't want it to be some mustache-twirling villain who wants to destroy all life in the galaxy. Enough. Please.
That's clearly a Ferengi. I'd have connected the ear cartilage to the brow ridge but other than that, they're fine.
I wonder if tooth sharpeners have gone out of fashion...
Could the anomaly be connected to the planet killer from TOS Doomsday Machine? I was just watching that and realized that Discovery Season 4 is just a season long remake of Doomsday Machine: planet killing weapon from another galaxy going around destroying planets, with Book in the Matt Decker role.
The 32nd century Ferengi is either a hybrid or they have more human-like teeth after centuries of further Ferengi development and tweaks to appearance.
Then shouldn't their teeth be worse?
Ferengi teeth reacts to soda differently due to different chemical composition. That’s my head canon now!
I like it. We'll base an entire season's arc around it.
So we now get a 32nd Century version of the Dyson Sphere. And the DMA is a mining dreg!
