sirblastalot

I want to see a Trek episode shot like one of those Eddie Murphy films where he plays all the characters, using Jeffrey Combs

That's kind of important to the story though.

They don't have what we would recognize as an economy, but they do have resources and are on rare occasions willing to trade them with outsiders. (See: Voyager) I can imagine some particularly risk-inclined ferengi trying to strike a deal. Gives me a "goodlife" from Saberhagen's Beserkers kind of vibe.

Martok is such an ally icon

Oh god, it's time for a meme I made 2 years ago

I read once that the earliest edition(s?) didn't have Rogue as a separate class, that everyone would be searching for traps and such. And when Rogue was added with the explicit ability to detect traps, it caused a crises because suddenly that implied that no one else had that ability.

It's the cats you gotta worry about.

Main quest? Weird tangent? They're the same picture!

God you just described my prep in a nutshell. This is how they ended up fighting an orchestra

hissss it burns ussss

Ok. It was just an example of a way you might make an encounter revolve around a spell, not an exhaustively researched adventure module.

I don't remember them being reformed at all in TNG, but I admit it's been awhile. I picture them as capering caricatures in TNG. But I'm thinking specifically of that moment where Quark argues with Odo that he can save them a bunch of small dangers by making one big gamble; it shows the Ferengi way of thinking about things as not just allegory, but as an actual culture that succeeds in some ways and fails in others.

Edit: Which I liked since the federation is ostensibly all about interacting with new and different cultures.

Edit edit: Not to say any of that invalidates your own feelings about it. I care about and find meaningful some stuff; you are under no obligation to feel the same way, nor are you wrong for not doing so. I only share because sometimes it's fun to hear other's perspectives, and I appreciate you sharing yours with me.