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Has the newest series even done an episode that touches on money at all?
50 posted on 03/13/2002 8:10:43 PM PST by Jason Kauppinen
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There have been some instances in which the enterprise has offered to trade supplies with other ships, but no mention of money has been made that I know of.
117 posted on 05/06/2004 3:15:02 PM PDT by mgardne
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Has the newest series even done an episode that touches on money at all?

I think the Ferenggi are mentioned in one episode......they figured in an episode of Voyager, too. And, portraying a young Quezon (sp?) who wants to kill an Earthman so he can become an "adult", Aron Eisenberg recycled from his usual Ferenggi role on DS9.

One thing I think Gene Roddenberry might have missed is how much his Ferenggi resemble old antisemitic caricatures of Jewish money-lenders. I think he deliberately made them ugly because they were capitalists -- and gave them sharp teeth as visual cues -- but he may have sailed a lot closer to the wind than a lot of other people would be allowed to without being strongly challenged for ethnic slights and stereotyping. Most of the actors portraying Ferenggi seem to have been Jewish, too.

150 posted on 05/07/2004 5:33:23 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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