TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
/c/TenForward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags.
Use spoiler tags in comments, and NSFW checkbox for posts.
This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
view the rest of the comments
I always thought ferengi represented American capitalism.
I understood them as representing humanities greed. All the races stand in for some aspect of humanity. Our violence, our suspicion, our logic, our greed, etc...
Some people did make comparisons to Jewish stereotypes and while there are a few I don't think it's too strong. Klingon culture has flavours of Samurai in it, but it doesn't make them stand ins for Japanese.
To be specific, it's not representing those things themselves but a way of projecting what would happen if those elements were more exclusively glorified. Klingons are a culture in which martial strength and honour are culturally glorified. Ferengi are a culture in which greed is not just present or prominent, but specifically glorified. Each one takes a concept, raises its value to max and then a society is built around that value. And then the Captain, as embodiment of enlightened liberalism, meets that culture and comes to terms with it.
They do. But lazy interpretations were made
Wellllll... There is the matter of the ethnicity of every single actor who plays a Ferengi.
Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Walter Koenig, Bent Spiner, Anton Yelchin and a bunch of others on the show were Jewish too though. It's just a profession that has a lot of Jewish people. Comedians were kind of the same, in the 70's 80% of American comedians were Jewish.
There's a whole different can of worms to open about why Jewish people got relegated to only certain kinds of jobs
I wouldn't say American capitalism, just capitalism in general.
I thought they were supposed to be jewish characters since some of the antisemitic tropes for jewish people is their love of money and large noses.
And a lot of the actors playing them are Jewish
I would think the ears were their most pronounced feature.
I know I knowโฆ weโll make their EARS big!!