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  1. Zyobot

    Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans

    I swear to God, people on the Web fit way too many Shrek references into topics that have nothing to do with him. :LOL:
  2. Zyobot

    Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans

    Sorry for the digression, but is it weird that I'm envisioning San Hill and the Grand Nagus sitting down to negotiate possible trade or business between the IGBC and Ferengi Alliance? Because frankly, I'm surprised more crossover fics with SW haven't featured much Ferengi-Muun interaction (or...
  3. Zyobot

    Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans

    So would I, now that @Lord Sovereign brings it up. :unsure: All in all, I suppose his take on this makes the Ferengi more similar to the CIS and Outer Rim megacorps from Star Wars, seeing as the Trade Federation and its fellow conglomerates employ private armies and the like to ward off...
  4. Zyobot

    Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans

    A solid alternative to canon Ferengi, to be sure, though depending on how "international" their economic reach is, I'd also throw in Muun economic finesse (read: cool self-restraint and enough sense to know your life is worth more than a few bars of Latinum) and overrepresentation among the...
  5. Zyobot

    Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans

    Yeah, would've been fun to have the Ferengi Alliance as Space Carthage (or at least, Space Phoenicia). Maybe even as a society of freewheeling anarcho-capitalists who've privatized everything and detest regulatory bodies of all stripes, if Roddenberry had more interest in "niche" ideologies that...
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