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[โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Rick Berman certainly worked to pull down the franchise. To be clear, though, Ferengi society was not a sexist take. It was a negative depiction of a sexist society. You were never supposed to watch an episode and come away thinking "man, those Ferengi really have it all figured out."

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You were never supposed to watch an episode and come away thinking "man, those Ferengi really have it all figured out."

    Yeah. Certainly.

    It still stands out as a weird artistic choice, I think. We see this extreme take on sexism, but it's a long time before we get a female Ferengi protagonist shown overcoming it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, that's definitely fair to say. I don't think we saw any Ferengi women until DS9. TNG tried to introduce them as the new big bad in season 1, but when that kind of fizzled they really didn't seem to have any solid ideas to develop them.

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