Ferengi

Yeah, I think we could probably sell them used for a profit.

Now you're talking like a Ferengi.

So Alex, there's your story about microphones and I'm sorry, we are truly microphone geeks.

We love them.

Riker and I will now demonstrate safe docking procedures.

If anybody wants to look up progressive anti-Semitism, look up the Ferengi in Star Trek who are basically...

Like, you see them, and the first time I saw them in an episode, I was like, wow.

Because they're basically like, let's just put it this way, the Ferengi make water look really subtle.

That's how I would describe them.

That's really

Yeah, I think we could probably sell them used for a profit.

Now you're talking like a Ferengi.

So, Alex, there's your story about microphones.

And I'm sorry, we are truly microphone geeks.

The Borg.

After the Ferengi were such a big hit, because obviously when they brought back Star Trek, they were like, we need to invent new aliens.

The Klingons and the Romulans just aren't cutting it.

So the first thing they come up with is space Jews, the Ferengi.

It's like, what if, hear us out here, there was the most anti-Semitic stereotype imaginable? What if they were greedy people with like one huge facial feature that was hugely exaggerated and grotesque and they were like monstrous and greedy and their defining trait was how much they loved money and also they enslaved women and were conspiratorial and possibly ate people? Are

we talking about Watto?

Because, you know, I mean, we see in TNG and all the Star Trek series, really, but specifically folks on TNG with Picard, you know, the captain's got a stressful job, right? He doesn't get too many opportunities to go on shore leave.

There's the episode, what, Captain's Holiday, where he's on shore leave and he ends up getting roped into that whole Ferengi thing.

that whole Ferengi plot and scheme there on, on the planet.

And so we get a few times, but, but the captain doesn't get the same amount of R and R.

It seems like a lot of other, a lot of other crew members do.

past, they're like, what the fuck? You want what?

They have to have money or like the Ferengi have money.

And so they have it for them or whatever.

You need your gold press latinum.

But back then, it opened the door for all of us because we realized, wow, this is so much bigger than Captain Kirk.

And over the next few years, we were introduced to the Borg, androids in the form of Lieutenant Commander Data, binars, Ferengi, Cardassians.

It just...

It just opened up so much for us.

But back then, it opened the door for all of us because we realized, wow, this is so much bigger than Captain Kirk.

And over the next few years, we were introduced to the Borg, androids in the form of Lieutenant Commander Data, binars, Ferengi, Cardassians.

It just opened up so much for us.

And I dare say it helped.