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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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Wanted By Weed posted:

Having started to actually get into Star Trek, I recently saw the DS9 episode where Jake and Nog slum their way through a Zelda-esque trading sequence in an attempt at a get-rich-quick scheme of the week.
It seems to actually work, but one of the things that struck me was that Nog obtains a parcel of land, and he thinks it's just worthless "dirt." Being that the Ferengis are a resource and profit-driven species who presumably hailed from a single planet, wouldn't they treat land as being super valuable too?? Land is a commodity with an ascribed monetary value, you'd think the ultracapitalist alien race would think it was too. Or is it that he's a dumb kid, idgi

Maybe it's that Nog's uncle owns an entire moon from being an arms merchant so a dingy parcel of land on Bajor, which might or might not be arable, doesn't seem like real progress

Squizzle posted:

maybe nog was an idiot child at the time

the most likely answer

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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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JethroMcB posted:

Always thought it was weird that nearly all Canadian pedophiles are big TNG fans

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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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FunkyAl posted:

What's the Social function of the holodeck? They have to simlulcrum grass and mark twains because they are isolated in space and would go crazy without meeting mark twain. They'd turn on each other. Then, is the holodeck not somewhat unrealistic given the fantastic mania they meet regularly, the full grandeur of the night sky, and existing theater and puppet departments? I'm sure everyone has little cameras and makes movies on the editing software they have implanted onto their geordi's visors. why do these peoples imaginations suck!

On deep space nine their imaginations went WILD!

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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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hakimashou posted:

The ferengis were better because if they found people they would teach and help them.

they were even considerate enough to codify their wisdom

http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/

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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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Lord Krangdar posted:

But what is your concept of "Federation space"? And where, in the shows, does it come from?

In DS9 the territorial issues were complex and political, the station itself was more of an embassy than an imperial foothold, and functioned as neutral ground for belligerent parties. It's been a long time since I watched the series but iirc Bajor was either not a Federation world or it was and forces within it wanted to overthrow the Fed-friendly government and be fully independent. The Cardassians considered them rebellious partisans who were illegally ignoring Cardassian law and the Cardassians were constantly scheming to retake the planet despite the Federation's presence. Later on, when the Dominion threat forced the Federation to militarize and garrison DS9 it was an outrage to both the inhabitants of the station and the alien races in proximity, and Sisko and others were often at odds with Starfleet when they insisted on maintaining neutrality and civil rights.

tl;dr - Federation Space is an inconsistent concept and in the shows it is originated in the plots and dialog of the original series

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