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In this story, the USS Enterprise-D-whose crew are the main protagonists of the series-makes first contact with the Ferengi while pursuing one of their vessels, which has stolen a T-9 energy converter. The new alien species initially appeared in the first season's fourth episode, ' The Last Outpost', which was based on a story by Richard Krzemien and a teleplay by Wright. While preparing scripts for the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the idea of the Ferengi was devised by Gene Roddenberry and Herbert Wright. The name Ferengi was coined based on the Persian term Ferenghi, used throughout Asia (compare older Feringhee), meaning 'foreigners' or 'Europeans'. Deep Space Nine writers have described how they saw the Ferengi as a satirical presentation of 20th century humans.įerengi makeup design and uniform from Star Trek: The Experience When creating Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the show's writers decided to introduce the Ferengi bartender Quark ( Armin Shimerman) as a major character, and subsequently his brother Rom ( Max Grodénchik) and nephew Nog ( Aron Eisenberg) as recurring characters, again frequently using them for comedic purposes.įerengi culture, especially as portrayed on Deep Space Nine, is depicted as hyper- capitalistic, focused on the acquisition of profit as the highest goal. Throughout the rest of the series, Ferengi characters were primarily used for comedic effect. The writers decided that the Ferengi ultimately failed to appear sufficiently menacing, instead replacing them with the Romulans and Borg as primary antagonists.

The Ferengi first appeared in ' The Last Outpost', the show's fourth episode, which was set in the year 2364. When launching Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, Gene Roddenberry and the show's writers decided to introduce a new alien species to serve as antagonists for the crew of the USS Enterprise-D.

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They were devised in 1987 for the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, played a prominent role in the following series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and have made brief appearances in subsequent series such as Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Picard. The Ferengi ( / f ə ˈ r ɛ ŋ ɡ i/) are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek. Three Ferengi in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ' The Price'.

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