TNG S1 E05 - The Last Outpost
October 17, 1987
"The Enterprise makes a confrontational first contact with the piratical Ferengi race as their two ships are ensnared by a presumed dead planet ready to judge them." ~IMDB
The one where we meet the Ferengi, while they are still a excessively quirky. The way they move around is just too weird, and it is definitely a good thing that this is the only time they act like this. But it's early in the series, so of course there are going to be things early on that need improving, and there definitely is improvement. The writers recognized that this was too weird. But, of course, the writers had to continue with their nude jokes...between the Ferengi women being required to be nude, to the Betazoid weddings where everyone goes nude....and this coming shortly after The Naked Now...it's as if the writers are trying to get the audience to imagine the cast naked...
The moral of the episode is "He who is wisest knows when to fight and when not to fight." And that not fighting is the wisest action.
Stardate 41386.4
T-9 Energy Converter stolen by the Ferengi
Delphi Ardu? 11 planets in the system
Cool ship, with cool weaponry that emits from their warp drive
Enterprise being dragged forward
power systems failing
two ships, nose to nose
intro theme plays
Armin Shimmerman is first guest credited
Deanna can't sense the Ferengi
Data compares Ferengi to "Yankee Traders." Like Riker's forbearers. The worst of capitalists.
Flag colors and Uncle Sam
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my brain can't continue on this at the moment. Eventually I'll come back to it. This is why I usually skip this episode...