I was referring to the claim of the lack of slavery, concentration camps etc. His slavery claim for example is provable rubbish because we see it in Enterprise, and yet, if we are to take him at his word, than something has happened in the meantime that allows him to ignore the fact that T'Pol and Hoshi were nearly sold off to be raped by the three invading Ferengi. Or I'm going to hazard a guess here, he thinks that the Ferengi have never actually been slavers because they are technically not Ferengi slave camps that they are selling slaves to, they are just the middle men. Mental gymnastics are also a universal trait.Yukaphile wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:33 pm Um... that's at odds with earlier on, when the Ferengi were an aggressive naval power. Even if they lost, you don't go from being a semi-respectable navy to being losers so horrible you're a joke and can't ever win. Even the losers wouldn't rewrite their own history to make themselves look that bad.
And as we've already established, I don't believe that the Ferengi military is a joke. I think its smaller, nothing else. I think the mistake you are making is basing too much on too few people. You see Quark, Rom and Nog and think that they must be the norm. And you are not alone in this: people for years made judgements on how ''real Vulcans'' should behave based on Spock, and yet with a few exceptions such as Tuvok and Saavik, most Vulcans are up their own backsides, racist, and have a very self-serving definition of logic. ''Ooh, that was just what Enterprise and DS9 did to them'' I hear someone cry. Yeah, sorry, not how canon works.