Quark was always a softie.
I absolutely love the tacit admission there with the line "If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it."
It's a sure lot better than the Next Generation portrayal of Ferengi as hunched, garbled voiced, goblin people. DS9 made the Ferengi my favorite portrayal of a species in Star Trek.
You know, I never made that connection. That's hilarious.
The TNG portrayals were a direct shot across the bow at the "barbarity" of capitalism. However, that is the difference between old Trek and Nu-Trek. Old trek was not afraid to have a capitalist with a heart of latinum as one of the protagonists later on. He would simply not be allowed to exist in any of Nu-Trek except as a foolish whipping-boy for some black, female SJW Federation captain.
The Federation is indeed like the Borg, it conquers through its irresistible optimism, idealism and warmth, instead of force of arms. Assimilates through shared pleasure, and understanding, bringing even enemies to its fold through the unconquerable will of its vision.
That's the best way to do it.
Honestly, rewatching Lower Decks dropped my respect for Picard. He knowingly sent her on a suicide mission by making her pose as a Bajoran terrorist, someone the Cardassians would absolutely murder if captured. Anyone else may have stood a chance of survival even if it involves being sent to a forced labor camp (IE: Thomas Riker), but a Bajoran terrorist is basically fucking dead.
A small video game called Bandai Pair Match.
Looks cool! I'll pick one up on eBay and try it ou---
very '80s
I like to think of Nu Trek as a different show like Zombie Simpsons, so like "Jerkass Homer" is just a Zombie Simps thing, any sucky Picard can be just a Nu Trek thing.
I never really liked Picard even with the Nu Trek additions. He always seemed inhuman in the worst of ways, like when he was going to allow an entire species die before Data forced them to hear the cries of an innocent little girl forced them to acknowledge what dicks they were being or when they were going to allow another unrelated species die before Worf's human brother went behind their backs and saved them.
Like I posted once before, Picard is a thin skinned, no spine diplomat cosplaying as a soldier.
