It's amazing to realise Jeffrey Coombs played all those characters.
You know I hate to keep saying this bit it's absolutely true, I would rather trust the ferrangi than American capitalists.
The ferrangi have a book of rules detailing the ways that they are allowed to rip you off, you can be well-versed in them and by doing so actually get a good deal from a ferangi.
A human capitalist is just going to take their ball and go home with the slightest push, and help yourself to whatever they can take from you, ethics be damned.
Capitalists have a book they use too, and like the Ferengi, it has nothing to do with ethics. Unfortunately it has a lot more rules than the Ferengi book.
No the Ferengi are actually too nice even for Elon
Well, they have world peace, and don't practice things like genocide or threats of mutual assured destruction.
One of my favorite moments in Deep Space Nine is when quark and Sisko are on a camping trip, and Sisko goes on the usual spiel about how greedy ferrangi are..
And Quark fires back by pointing out that his people have never had war, genocide, or slavery, and Sisko's got nothing because he knows humans can't say the same
One of my favourite lines in all of DS9 is when Rom and Quark are arguing about where they've crash landed.
Quark says something like, "maybe we've died and gone to [ferengi heaven]".
Rom then says "or maybe we've gone to [Ferengi Hell]?"
Quark responds (and Armin absolutely crushed this line IMO): "The bar was turning a profit!"
"Leading"
They may be greedy, but at least Ferengi are not usually racist shitbags.
Leads? Not me, at least.
I'll give you a nickel for a disc of dessicated Elon spine
Don't you sully the Ferengi name like that. They do a valuable service to the federation. Where else are you going to buy self sealing stem bolts on the edge of federation space?
Greed is one the most powerful of all human emotions. There's nothing wrong with being greedy, what's wrong is trying to pretend you're not. We all are. Every human wants truckloads of cash and endless amounts of power. It's no good pretending you are "above that." If you're human, that's really what you ARE all about. I say we give everyone a gun and let the one who kills the most people have all the wealth. At least that would be an honest human accomplishment with no hypocrisy.
I couldn't give a wet fart about power. It comes with too much attention and responsibility. I'll take that truck load of cash though please and thank you.
As long as we become space faring super survivors, I'm fine with that. Good intentions don't make rocket fuel for the vroom vroom. We need to vroom some explorers to other places, just in case.
I always love that logic ... our planet is too dangerous and dying, so we have to leave to make sure we survive
At this point in our evolution ... we would ensure our long term survival in our galaxy if we stayed put and maintained our current environment. It's the only liveable atmosphere, environment and planet that we know of that we can live on and have access to.
How are we going to restart life on Mars where there is no atmosphere or resources when we're doing such a terrible job maintaining the existing atmosphere and environment we were born into?
I always like burning house metaphors .... space exploration to save our species at this point in time is like burning your house down, telling everyone you can't live there any more and saying that you're leaving to go live somewhere else where you can decorate a better bedroom. Except your burning house is located in an isolated desert with no shelter for hundreds of miles around.
Why survive if we're going to be so wretched? How do people value life itself above the quality of that life?
