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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] jawa21@startrek.website 72 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rule 239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product.

“Full self driving”

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

"Free speech"

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It's amazing to realise Jeffrey Coombs played all those characters.

[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to add how I enjoy this community and all the witty banter. Thanks for boldly going where no meme or gif has gone before.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Does this mean we only have five years for this mission?

[–] teft@startrek.website 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We have a continuing mission. None of that 5 year jazz. We also have jazz.

[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago

They really missed an opportunity to say "to have been continued".

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago

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!"

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No the Ferengi are actually too nice even for Elon

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, they have world peace, and don't practice things like genocide or threats of mutual assured destruction.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jaccident@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I feel the scene is deeper than that. Quark isn’t just dunking Sisko, he’s shining a light on the fact that Sisko doesn’t see the Ferengi as they are, rather he uses the surface level similarities of capitalism to apply his human anxiety about pre-post-scarcity to them instead.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although they do practice slavery and piracy.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not slavery, according to Quark.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Ok but they definitely do. Quark might not be the most reliable commentator.

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[–] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 26 points 11 months ago
[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Hyper capitalist, hyper misogyny, monopolies of business are legal, but unionizing is illegal.

He only wants the space-living because he’s a nerd and wants to create a 0th world, which is to the 1st world is to the 3rd world.

[–] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They may be greedy, but at least Ferengi are not usually racist shitbags.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago

Rule of Acquisition 17: A contract is a contract is a contract… but only between Ferengi

They don’t exactly treat everyone equally.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

I think it's hinted that they are. I don't think they say "humARNS" like that due to a speech defect. I think they say it cos they don't like Xenos like us. They like our latinum.

[–] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (11 children)
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

They're racist and horribly sexist.

[–] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Leads? Not me, at least.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I'll give you a nickel for a disc of dessicated Elon spine

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

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?

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