I'm arguing that the Ferengi (in this particular episode) behaved like idiots who could not possibly be smart enough to develop warp technology or operate a warp vessel successfully. I picture their ship's computer being a long-suffering soul who has to do its best with their random button-fumbling when all it wants them to do is to give the name of the next destination, and their clan leader having picked that ship to dump the most idiotic Ferengi that would otherwise constantly plague the actually competent ones.
They behave like techno-illiterate robbers. They are based on a highly advanced piece of technology, a starship. This episode would have been far better if they had written the Ferengis to actually *act* like smart capitalist thieves, rather than simple-minded muggers.
Don't get me wrong, I have actually enjoyed a lot of the Enterprise series. This was just the clinker, the lead coin in a pile of silver coins and some gold coins, figuratively speaking.
Guessing the Andorians are the 'blue Nazis'. They don't strike me as exactly Nazis; I'd actually characterize them more like 'Cold War USA' military types. They're military rivals of the Vulcans, they're violent but possessed of a warrior's ethics, and that's all I really know about them at this point. There's no evidence yet to support that they subscribe to a 'master race' ethos or the idea of conquering everyone.
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Date: 2014-06-24 01:09 am (UTC)They behave like techno-illiterate robbers. They are based on a highly advanced piece of technology, a starship. This episode would have been far better if they had written the Ferengis to actually *act* like smart capitalist thieves, rather than simple-minded muggers.
Don't get me wrong, I have actually enjoyed a lot of the Enterprise series. This was just the clinker, the lead coin in a pile of silver coins and some gold coins, figuratively speaking.
Guessing the Andorians are the 'blue Nazis'. They don't strike me as exactly Nazis; I'd actually characterize them more like 'Cold War USA' military types. They're military rivals of the Vulcans, they're violent but possessed of a warrior's ethics, and that's all I really know about them at this point. There's no evidence yet to support that they subscribe to a 'master race' ethos or the idea of conquering everyone.