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hypertechnica · 5 months

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dude… why did rules of acquisition go so hard with pel’s love story with quark??? that shit was beautiful and gut wrenching… and quark was so relieved his heterosexuality remained intact (as if)

in all seriousness though, really good, i love the ferengi society centered episodes, their writing fascinates me for so many different reasons that i’ve gotta write about sometime

#something about love in a hostile society #something about queer and feminine repression #the ferengi as a concept are flawed #because the homogenous evil aliens trope has to go and star trek is Very guilty of it #stop the lazy writing. it almost always leans on harmful real life stereotypes. and it’s just boring #but i do think ds9 did a better job at fleshing them out though definitely was not perfect #the unchallenged narrative that they’re just inherently greedy is still strong #and that’s. mmmmmgghh. disturbing implications there when star trek always uses its aliens as irl allegories…#fuck it bro i gotta write an essay #star trek #ds9 #quark #rules of acquisition #ferengi #rainspeak

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