#ferengi

[noratheelk]

This was all I could think while watching this 💀

[Video description:

clips from an episode of strange new worlds, edited with audio from deep space nine.

The camera focuses on T’Prill, T’Pring’s mother as she speaks, but instead of her voice it’s Zek, the Farengi leader from Star Trek deep space nine. He says: “I predict a big future for you Pel, you certainly have the lobes”

The camera then cuts to Spock and the voice of Pel says “so, you like my lobes?”

The camera briefly shows T’Pring, looking at Spock with confusion as Quark’s voice says “Pel?”

The camera then cuts back to T’Prill, and Zek’s voice says “yes, I do”

Finally the camera cuts back to Spock who takes off his fake Vulcan ears as Pel’s voice says “good! Then you can have them!” The voices of Zek and Rom can be heard screaming as he does this.]

#star trek #spock #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds spoilers #snw season 2 #deep space nine #star trek ds9 #ferengi #vulcan #snw spoilers #st snw #video description contains spoilers for SNW #snw 2x05 #t’pring #I love T’Pring #why is T’Pring the only good actor in this whole episode? 💀

[roguetelepaths]

You know, I bet the Ferengi have someone like Ea-Nasir and he's like. a saint or something

#ea nasir #ds9 #ferengi

[lt-kaollumn]

Come get your drinks at QUARK’S!

unfortunately, Quark is understaffed this evening and has to run tables himself. he’s not happy, but at least he’s fabulous.

(prints in progress!)

So, whatcha having?

#star trek #star trek fanart #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #star trek quark #deep space nine #quark ds9 #ds9 quark #ferengi #my art

[feral-ferengi]

I couldn't resist redrawing this one..

..but then with Quark. ✨️

#i already regret it #star trek #deep space nine #quark #ds9 #star trek ds9 #ds9 quark #ferengi #star trek memes #star trek fanart

[ds9-polycule-tales]

Credit to Dominion Media Television on FB

#deep space nine #deep space 9 #grelka #quark #ds9 #ds9 quark #house of quark #ferengi #klingon

[nashi-ja]

I wonder if there was a whole department of DS9's prod entirely dedicated to Ferengi clothing.

Did they hired a dozen people in 1992, and the job description was like : "This man will need to serve cunt every week for the next 7 years."

#star trek #deep space nine #quark #ferengi #ferengi fashion #He had literally so many costume #it's insane #he's soo pretttyyyy

[itsa-me-kermio]

Happy labor day from Rom, a real union man 💞

Thanks for the correction! I called him nog at first.

#star trek ds9 #star trek #ds9 #ferengi #labor rights #labor day #rom

[garaks-padded-bra]

I just love Rom

#ds9 #star trek #rom ds9 #star trek deep space nine #ferengi

[snippit-crickit]

ds9 art dump but its mostly lizard cardassians i have too much fun drawing them

garak inspired by this piece (pastel,gouache and pencils)

Textures experiment, empok nor garak, ate jam or smf!!

odo my beloved,,,, also i love gouache now i am a gouache stan, i not only discovered i can use it for character painting but i also drank half a cup of gouache water becore i caught on its not my drinking water ((funny taste mustve been a regional thing))

#lizard #cardassian #garak #ds9 #elim garak #quark #ferengi #deep space 9 #odo #sketchbook

[improbabledreams900]

Deep Space Nine · The Ferengi

#deep space nine #ds9 gifs #ferengi #star trek #my gifs #something about these gremlins fascinates me

[berrymimes]

A misfit crew, sometime in the distant future… ❤️🩵💛

I wanted to try making a star trek crew of my own, so here they are! (I took a few creative liberties)

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #ds9 #deep space nine #ferengi #klingon #vulcan #bajoran #antedian #cardassian #star trek fanart #star trek art #star trek oc #star trek original character #character design #concept art #aliens #my art

[vaguely-wormlike]

More of my vulcan-raised ferengi guy! I am open to name suggestions.

#star trek #ds9 #my art #ferengi #vulcan #star trek vulcan #star trek tng

[parsleynsage]

feeling emotional about Ferengi death rituals...like yes it's a joke about capitalism blah blah blah but of course a culture that values business and commerce would see selling their remains as the greatest respect you could give a loved one. the fact that they have a certain number of disks they use for the remains is also very interesting and suggests 52 is a number of significance to Ferengi religion.

given Rom's attempt to buy all of Quark's remains I imagine lesser known Ferengi still sell their remains after death. I imagine the custom in Ferengi families is to buy a disk of a loved one after death and it's probably a faux pas not to, sorta like bringing flowers or meals to funerals.

ALSO Ferengi women don't have latinum and thus can't buy disks of their own loved ones. how fucked up would it be to lose someone and be unable to partake in the grief customs of your culture, knowing that the same thing will happen upon your own passing? idk man the aliens with the weird heads are making me sad again

#ds9 #ferengi #a real pain in the asymmetric photons

[trip-is-bad-at-go]

Lower Decks trailer has Grand Nagus Rom!!! Leeta is there! He's showing the humans his baseball swing!!!!!

#Grand Nagus #Rom and Leeta #deep space 9 #Lower Decks #Ferengi #He's grown so much! #Gonna love a whole episode catching up with Rom #Star Trek #Bajoran

[writergeekrhw]

There's been a lot of talk over the years about whether Ferengi are a antisemitic stereotyoe. Given that DS9 had more Jewish actors and creative staff, what do you think of that discourse?

Was this something that was kept in mind when reinventing the Ferengi from how they were in TNG?

I can tell you the INTENTION of the Ferengi was to satirize capitalism and the West. Ferengi derives from the Persian "Farangi," i.e. Franks, people from France. More broadly, it came to mean "Western European." Hence "Farangistan" = Europe. Farang/i spread to other languages, notably Thai where it now means "foreigner."

Farang - Wikipedia

So, the Ferengi are intended to be us. Westerners, even more specifically Americans. The original TNG bible compares them to 18th and 19th century Yankee traders. Sexist and greedy, patriarchal and dishonest.

I'm pretty sure this was the intention of their look too, especially the noses. Big noses are common in Asian caricatures of Westerners. Check out the Thai sculpture in the link above. According to my father, for example, the Rhade tribe from the Vietnamese Highlands called Americans "big noses" and when he was their military advisor, he was Captain Big Nose.

And then TNG cast a ton of Jewish actors as early Ferengi, and a lot of people saw them completely differently. (Aside, I've heard from some Asian fans that they perceive Ferengi as caricatures of the Cantonese, which speaks to how different cultures see them.)

We were definitely aware of this issue when DS9 came along, and I largely followed the lead of our Jewish-American showrunners on how to handle it. Generally, by digging deep into three different main Ferengi characters and several recurring, I hope we transcended the stereotypes.

We showed Ferengi not as whip-wielding pirate/raiders (not a Jewish trope btw, see Yankee traders), but as a small business owner, a handyman/engineer, and an aspiring Starfleet officer, all struggling with issues of cultural assimilation and grappling with their own culture's shortcomings when it comes to women and greed.

When writing the Ferengi, I drew from my own (white bread, Catholic, Army brat) background, so for example, I saw the Rules of Acquisition not as some kind of take on the Talmud, but as a satire of Western self-help business books, a kind of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," meets "The Devil's Dictionary." The Ferengi afterlife is based on my vague understanding of Chinese traditions I grew up around in San Francisco, etc.

I'm not sure we fully separated the Ferengi from the baggage they came to us with, but we definitely tried.

#star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space 9 #deep space nine #ds9 #deep space 9 #star trek #ferengi #ask me anything #ask me stuff #tvwriting #tv writing

[kzeetriplenine]

Random Nog pic cause I miss drawing him!

Idk, he probably did try out a few human's fashion in his starfleet years???

#nog #art #yes i drew this #star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #artists on tumblr #ferengi #nog ferengiboi #nog ds9 #fanart #star trek fanart #star trek ds9