# ST question: Ferenghi scientists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522 "2004-10-27T19:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/21 "2004-10-28T12:46:58Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Every subsequent appearance that I can recall portrayed Ferengi as somewhat feeble and cowardly. The emphasis certainly changed from warriors in STNG to business people in DS9. There was the mercenary in the episode to rescue Quark’s mother. And Quark \*did[i/] best a Klingon in a bar fight. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/22 "2004-10-28T16:34:07Z")
the feringi that decked riker may have been a member of the ferengi merchant marines… thier the more adventurous profit seeking arm of the ferengi government, fueled by hyperion bettle snuff! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/23 "2004-10-28T16:40:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And Quark \*did[i/] best a Klingon in a bar fight. 🙂 Not really. Kozak, being drunk as a targ, fell on his own knife after pulling it on Quark. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/24 "2004-10-28T16:41:01Z")
> [@pope\_hentai](#): > > ferengi merchant marines. The East India Company had their own navy. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/25 "2004-10-28T17:37:37Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Not really. That’s what the smiley was for, Fella. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/26 "2004-10-28T18:48:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And Quark \*did[i/] best a Klingon in a bar fight. 🙂 Yes, bested him with the Ferengi martial art of stair fu. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/27 "2004-10-28T19:07:08Z")
Klingons could juggle:[ul] [li]knives[/li][li]Axes[/li][li]Swords[/li][li]Fire[/li][li]Live explosives[/li][li]Jars full of acid[/li][/ul] Well, you get the idea. Any race must have a certain amount of internal variation, just to survive. ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522/28 "2004-10-28T19:45:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The East India Company had their own navy. it was kind of like that… wish i knew where the book i had about ferengis was… but at the time the grand nagus was in control of the flow of beetle snuff into ferenginar, he decided he needed this other planets territory so he tightened the flow of beetlesnuff (which is apparently addictive) but created the merchant marines and offered the soldiers thier own allotment of, guess what, beetle snuff! oi i feel like a geek… i used to role play as a ferengi with my dad hee hee father son ferengi team… oh yeah! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-question-ferenghi-scientists/271522.md?page=1)