# Am I the only one who likes the Ferengi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320 "2006-05-03T23:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/21 "2006-05-05T15:09:46Z")
oh… I’m sorry to post again, but I just wanted to say that if you do a Yahoo image search for “Ferengi” there is a comparison picture of a Ferengi and Reggie Miller a few pages in (but the link doesn’t work). BUT my friends and I have been calling Reggie a Ferengi since about his 2nd or 3rd season. WE THOUGHT OF IT FIRST!!! (so NYAH!!) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/22 "2006-05-05T15:15:59Z")
Clingon? Surely you mean tlhIngan? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/23 "2006-05-05T16:59:36Z")
I loved the Ferengi, especially Quark. Quark was that character who is meant to be a loathsome bastard, but is just so cool that you can’t help like him. As has been mentioned, one factor in the Ferengi’s favor is that they are totally unpretentious. The Federation, in contrast, is extremely pretentious, claiming nothing less than utopia. The Ferengi contrast well with the Federation. They are just so perfectly opposed. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/24 "2006-05-05T18:23:06Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I loved the Ferengi, especially Quark. Quark was that character who is meant to be a loathsome bastard, but is just so cool that you can’t help like him. As has been mentioned, one factor in the Ferengi’s favor is that they are totally unpretentious. The Federation, in contrast, is extremely pretentious, claiming nothing less than utopia. The Ferengi contrast well with the Federation. They are just so perfectly opposed. I particularly like Quark’s comments on this in the episode where they first encounter Dominion forces (_The Jem’hadar_, IIRC): > [@Quark](#): > > You know, Commander, I think I’ve figured out why humans don’t like Ferengi. The way I see it, humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We’re a constant reminder of a part of your past you’d like to forget. But you’re overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi. Slavery, concentration camps… we have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We’re nothing like you. We’re better. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/25 "2006-05-05T18:29:39Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > They had made acquisition a national religion with their “Rules of Acquisition”. Two of the current Google ads on this thread: > [@Google ads](#): > > Believe in Jesus? > We’ll pay you $75 right now to complete a simple survey! > > Doing Gospel activities? > Please, help us reimburse you. We can send cash almost anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/26 "2006-05-05T18:38:04Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Think how much more refreshing it would be if mulktinational corporations, instead of insulting our intelligence with patronizing ads about how they plant trees and dig fresh water wells for little coloured children, were to be up front and tell us that they exist to acquire material goods and profits. Surely we would like them better, not less. [One did](http://newsbusters.org/node/5198) > [@from transcript](#): > > Lauer finished on a populist, some might say a demagogic note: “Would Exxon-Mobil be willing to lower profits over the summer to help out in this time of need and crisis as it’s been described?” > > Tillerson first responded with a bit of populism himself: "Well, we work for the shareholders. And the investors who own our stock are over two million Americans. A lot of pension plans, a lot of teacher retirement plans and our job is to go out and make the most money for those people so their pensions are secure so that they see the benefits of our work. > > Lauer: “That’s a no?” > > Tillerson concluded on a refreshingly frank note: “That’s not the business – we’re in the business to make money.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/27 "2006-05-05T19:26:42Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > I particularly like Quark’s comments on this in the episode where they first encounter Dominion forces (_The Jem’hadar_, IIRC): Does Quark ask Sisko if he would let his son marry a Ferengi, or was I just expecting that? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/28 "2006-05-05T22:02:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Does Quark ask Sisko if he would let his son marry a Ferengi, or was I just expecting that? I wouldn’t again. Damn ugly grandbabies. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/29 "2006-05-05T23:04:01Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I wouldn’t again. Damn ugly grandbabies. You’ve never been one for irony, NoClue. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/30 "2006-05-06T02:29:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Does Quark ask Sisko if he would let his son marry a Ferengi, or was I just expecting that? I thought Jake and Nog were just good friends. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-likes-the-ferengi/355320/31 "2006-05-06T02:42:02Z")
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