That Ferrengi Episode
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Nowhere Man
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What, they should have thrown the Ferengi in the brig? And then what?
Essentially they did punish the Ferengi by making them put all the stolen objects back on its place. And they were just glad to send them on their way and resume their mission.
Essentially they did punish the Ferengi by making them put all the stolen objects back on its place. And they were just glad to send them on their way and resume their mission.
What should they have done? If you think of it as a first contact, I guess they were willing to take their lumps in exchange for some sort of peaceful outcome, considering that no one was hurt too badly and the stolen things were returned.
Don't exaggerate. He spends half the episode in his blue undies.
Don't exaggerate. He spends half the episode in his blue undies.
Sorry. Wishful thinking on my part....
It had Jeffrey Combs in it, so I loved it. 
Plus the Ferengi trying to interrogate Porthos, and Archer in handcuffs, and T'Pol giving Krem oomox, and that fake fight between Archer and Trip. And the look T'Pol gives Trip when she wakes up and sees him in his blues. I had a great time with this episode.
Plus the Ferengi trying to interrogate Porthos, and Archer in handcuffs, and T'Pol giving Krem oomox, and that fake fight between Archer and Trip. And the look T'Pol gives Trip when she wakes up and sees him in his blues. I had a great time with this episode.
Captain X
Rear Admiral
Yup.
Shipped them back to Earth for trial on charges of assault, piracy, and attempted kidnapping.
I didn't much care for the character abuse of T'Pol either, namely making her act slutty and out of character in order to "fool" the simple-minded Ferengi. Whatever happened to the nerve pinch? Why are such serious topics getting played for laughs? And that's all just scratching the surface, because to begin with they never should have done a Ferengi episode, and it was one of the lamest cop-outs imaginable to simply have them avoid saying their name, like that maintains continuity.
Makes Archer look that much more the fool for not at least even thinking to ask them what species they belonged to during any of that, or demanding to know once he had the upper hand.
were they thinking
Ferengi during mid-22nd Century pre-UFP times
There was this Ferengi
, & then the thawed out Borg soldiers/workers fiasco. I guess B&B had planned on Cardies showing up next yes? Guess budget/schedules killed that huh?Wouldn't Ferengi be a loooonnngggg ways away & faaaarrrrr in the distance from Beckett's corner of the Milky Way
PS: Where's Al & Ziggy when you need them
So if we make it like real life, a little group of pirates go onboard the U.S navy enterprise and try to commandeer the ship, thier punishment? slap on the wrists and send them on thier way?
I know its not real but a bit of realism please?
So did I. You have to take it for what it is, a fun episode without trying to analyze it to death.
Well, that is realism, from this very year: that's what the EU frigates off the coast of Somalia have had to do with the pirates they catch, due to jurisdiction problems.
The Indian navy has a different take on it, preferring liberally administered live ammo.
Timo Saloniemi
He did ask. The answer was a rifle butt in the face.
His cousin was shackled. I suspect dimwit wasn't so stupid that he'd take any chances with the crook.
Ferengi during mid-22nd Century pre-UFP times
There was this Ferengi
Wouldn't Ferengi be a loooonnngggg ways away & faaaarrrrr in the distance from Beckett's corner of the Milky Way
PS: Where's Al & Ziggy when you need them
I think there was a Cardassian hooked up to the station computer in Dead Stop.
I don't think it's all that unreasonable for the Ferengi to pop up here and there. They'll get the most profits for getting the most exotic things to sell. And to do that, they'd probably go further afield, where no-one else has gone before (oddly enough trumping any of TNG's efforts
).As for Al... I hear he's become a priest of sorts now. Come of think of it, an awful lot of preachers look like him lately
Captain X
Rear Admiral
Yes, because piracy and selling women into sex slavery is so very lulzy.
What about after he had regained control of the ship?
The inherent campiness built into the Ferengi--their appearance, their overt sexism and over-the-top greed, the Rules of Acquisition, all that--made them impossible for me ever to take them seriously from the get-go. They're a hoot. Brunt from DS9 is an absolute scream.
A Ferengi-centric Enterprise episode turned out to be (for me) what I thought it might be...a romp, played largely for laughs. When I see Ferengi stealing pecan pie out of the mess hall and trying to wrestle the bridge seats into their ship, just because they're not nailed down, I gotta laugh.
T'Pol didn't seem "slutty" so much as clever to me, choosing the most logical way to take advantage of a Ferengi's, erhm, Achilles' heel.
And as for Archer letting them go...they came off like the Ferengi Three Stooges to me. Maybe Archer saw them that way too, and didn't consider them a credible threat, once Krem was in charge.
