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  Ferengi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ferengi culture is based entirely on commerce, and the 285 Rules of Acquisition comprise the sacred code on which all of Ferengi society is based.
A certain branch of the Ferengi government, known as Liquidators, are almost universally loathed by all Ferengi, and are possibly meant as a parody of the IRS.
Ferengi society seems to be based on strict meritocracy, and aristocracy, nepotism, oligarchy and dictatorship are almost unknown in Ferengi society.
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 Ferengi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Ferengi come from the (Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system) planet (additional info and facts about Ferenginar) Ferenginar, in the center of the Ferengi Alliance located in the Alpha Quadrant.
Ferengi culture is based entirely on commerce, and the two-hundred eighty-five (additional info and facts about Rules of Acquisition) Rules of Acquisition comprise the sacred code on which all of Ferengi society is based.
Ferengi make excellent administrators as they are well versed in (A bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts) accounting and inventory procedures, and can often apply these skills to other endeavours.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/ferengi.htm   (2448 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ferengi Alliance
Ferengi culture is based entirely on commerce, and the two-hundred eighty-five Rules of Acquisition comprise the sacred code on which all of Ferengi society is based.
Ferengi prefer to engage in the practice of selling defensive weaponry to weaker species under attack than to species that are more beligerent.
Moreover, the Ferengi have never had slavery and despite the profits other races such as the Orion have made in the slave trade, having an entire class of people who would be unable to purchase goods makes the practice unsavory in Ferengi society.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ferengi-Alliance   (1767 words)

  
 Ferengi
Ferenginar is the center of the Ferengi Alliance located in the Alpha quadrant.
Ferengi are small compared to humans, have orange-colored skin, unusually large ears (more so in males than in females), sharp teeth, double foreheads, ascending ribs, upper and lower lungs, and a four-lobed brain that cannot be read by the telepathic powers of Betazoids or Vulcanss.
The Ferengi were initially intended to replace the Klingon empire as the "enemy" race of the Federation in.
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 DS9 Encyclopedia & Lexicon - Ferengis
A Ferengi, father of Ishka and maternal grandfather of Quark and Rom.
A Ferengi term for a massage of the ears, which are erogenous zones in Ferengi.
Pel was actually a female Ferengi disguised as a male; unfortunately for her, however, she had fallen in love with Quark.
ds9encyclopedia.0catch.com /ferengi.htm   (2201 words)

  
 Ferengi - Memory Alpha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ferengi civilization was built on the ideals of pure laissez-faire capitalism, where all other goals were subjugated to the pursuit of profit.
Their governing body known as the Ferengi Alliance was formed over a period of ten thousand years, beginning with the establishment of a system of currency, to their purchase of warp technology, and finally to its current state in the 24th century.
Ferengi physiology is similar to that of the Dopterians and Kobheerians, of which they are distant relatives.
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 Ferengi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Alliance is ruled by the Grand Nagus, recognized as the greatest merchant and slyest manipulator in the Quadrant.
Ferengi marriages are male-oriented, with a string of Latinum Dances, Bridal Auctions and, of course the scantily clad bride to mark the blessed event.
The Ferengi encountered by the away-team of the Enterprise-D wielded stunning whips, snarled viciously, hissed incomprehensible remarks, and was quite unsociable.
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 The Ferengi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ferengi consider the sanctity of a contract to be a cornerstone of their civilization.
Ferengi tradition requires the females of the family to prepare and serve meals, and to soften the food for the males by chewing it for them.
Ferengi consider pregnancy to be a rental, with the father being termed the lessee.
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 Ferengi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ferengis are slight for humanoid races, rarely passing 5 feet in stature.
Ferengi marriages are male-oriented, with a string of Latinum Dances, Bridal Auctions, and of course the scantily clad bride to mark the event.
However, though hostile at first, Ferengi soon realized the market potential the Federation had to offer (to quote ROA no.75: Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum) and many have established businesses on Federation planets and starbases.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Nebula/4156/infirmary/xeno/ferengi.html   (1652 words)

  
 USF Species Databank: The Ferengi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ferenginar is the capital of the Ferengi Alliance, and the seat of the Ferengi Commerce Authority.
The Alliance is ruled by the Grand Nagus, recognized as the greatest merchant and slyest manipulator in the Quadrant, and guided by the Rules of Acquisition, which are many useful and ruthless principles of capitalism to be employed by all Ferengi.
Ferengi (singular and plural) are slight for humanoid races, rarely passing 5 feet in stature.
www.sector001.com /species/ferengi.html   (1418 words)

  
 STARTREK.COM : Article
Ferengi typically emit a high-pitched shriek when attacked; they are likewise pained by ultrasonics too high for human ears — such as those aimed at eradicating Cardassian Voles.
The Ferengi brain is composed of four distinct nodes, possibly what prevents them from being read empathically by Betazeds.
Ferengi females have smaller lobes then males and are not permitted to go out in public, hold jobs, wear clothing or particpate in trade or commerce.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/aliens/article/70601.html   (491 words)

  
 Ferengi Alliance - Memory Alpha
The Ferengi Alliance is the formal name for the Ferengi government, whose seat of power is on the homeworld Ferenginar.
The Ferengi Commerce Authority or FCA is an agency of the Alliance concerned with business practices and the enforcement of trade under Ferengi Trade By-Laws and Codes.
Agents of the FCA are known as Liquidators, led by the Board of Liquidators, all of whose offices are located on the 40th floor of the Tower of Commerce in the Sacred Marketplace on Ferenginar.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Ferengi_Alliance   (672 words)

  
 Star Trek Aliens F
The Ferengi society is the culmination of the worst of capitalism and chauvinism combined.
Capitalism aside, Ferengi are a sexist society to the core.
Even so, a Ferengi regards his mother with affection, often taking comfort in laying his head in her lap and defending her honor against the taunts of mean-spirited playmates.
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 The Ferengi Alliance
Stardate 42923.4 - the Ferengi interfered with a battle simulation being conducted by the USS Enterprise-D and the Constellation-class USS Hathaway.
The Ferengi were able to take control of the Enterprise-D, but, due to a previous accident, Picard, Ro Laren, Keiko O'Brien and Guinan could pass as children, along with Lieutenant Worf's son Alexander, and incapacitate the Ferengi on the ship.
Quark was assisted during the negotiations by Pel, a Ferengi woman disguised as a male waiter.
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 STARTREK.COM : Article
When the Ferengi were introduced early in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was a sense that the highly anticipated "new alien threat" didn't live up to promises.
The Ferengi are often seen as the comic relief of Star Trek, but that is perhaps because we see so much of ourselves in them, and the funny part is that we try so hard to deny it.
Ferengi society's deeply entrenched sexism as established in "The Last Outpost" was finally put under the microscope in this second-season DS9 episode about a Ferengi female who poses as a male so she can make money and wear clothes.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/series/ENT/feature/3103.html   (1862 words)

  
 The Ferengi Alliance
A good example is the Ferengi, Quark, who establishes a bar and interstellar trading operation on Deep Space Nine, a former Cardassian space station near the planet Bajor, and gateway to the Bajoran Wormhole and the Gamma Quadrant.
Ferengi head covers, the Arabesque cloth seen on the back of some Ferengi heads, are a military designation and are not normally worn by civilians.
Since the Ferengi are capitalists, virtually all their leaders are in place because of their cunning and wealth.
colins_empire.homestead.com /files/ferengi1.htm   (632 words)

  
 Rules of Acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first rule was made by Gint, the first Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance.
Most of the rules were written by Ira Steven Behr, a producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and he has published them in a book The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (ISBN 0671529366), the cover of which credits authorship as being "By Quark as told to Ira Steven Behr".
A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition   (557 words)

  
 Ferengi Alliance
The Ferengi Alliance is centred on the homeworld of Ferenginar, the principal climatic characteristic of which is of extreme humidity and moisture, with vast quantities of precipitation year round.
The female sex on Ferenginar are omitted from such regulations of the Ferengi archetype, for not only are they prohibited from wearing clothes, talking to non family members and showing their faces in public, it is considered an unforgivable crime to earn profit or deal in any kind of financial or business venture.
Many outsiders see the unprincipled exploitative Ferengi as a serious future military threat, for it is believed they possess flawed motivation for a start, and that they lack the necessary diplomatic skills and experience to be a worthy space faring culture.
www.trekmania.net /diplomatic/ferengi.htm   (1101 words)

  
 The Ferengi Alliance - UCIP Startrek Simulations
Ferengis shun the notions of the labour union and of worker's rights.
Ferengi culture, however, is still adapting to the change.
Ferengi soon after realized the market potential the Federation has to offer and many have established themselves on Federation planets and starbases.
www.ucip.org /divisions/ferengi   (299 words)

  
 Ferengi Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When first encountered by the Federation, the Ferengi were mistaken for savages because of their insatiable hunger for latinum and their violent actions.
The Ferengi are extremely sexist and do not allow females the luxury of clothes or the right to make profit, although this long-held tradition is being challenged.
The Ferengi's physiology is one of the most complex in the quadrant.
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 FERENGI ALLIANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The typical male Ferengi is slightly impish in stature, standing between one and a quarter to one and a half meters tall, weighing between fifty and seventy-five kilograms, their primary facial features consisting of their razor sharp teeth, nose ridges, and their large and highly sensitive ears.
Ferengi technology is quite difficult to characterize, since the Ferengi will steal anything they can get their hands on, from ships to the bolts that hold the ship together.
Ferengi males are just as likely to cheat, steal, or murder their own fathers, brothers, and sons without any thought or feelings of remorse.
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 The Ferengi Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Ferengi didn't see the sense in having a ship loaded with valuables and not be able to defend itself against agressors, and after all, it is able to ROB also.
The LATINUM is the symbol of Ferengi wealth and is rented by the feared Ferengi Commerce Association.
The Ferengi are able to send the LATINUM to planets of other races and perform its gambling function there, with one exception: the proceeds go to the Ferengi, not the planet's owner.
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 SB 410 Ferengi Embassy
The behaviour of the Ferengi Alliance and it's race can often seem sinister or underhanded.
The Symbol of the Ferengi Alliance is a graphic representation of their narrow view of life: a "dog-eat-dog" world is represented by a small circle being engulfed by a larger symbol, which itself is being "eaten" by another!
Well, first of all, you should know that Ferengis are well known for their honour and scruples.
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 Ferengi Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Based in Ferenginar, the Alliance is headed by the Grand Nagus, whose office is situated in the highest building of the Alliance, the Tower of Commerce.
Since the Ferengi Alliance is all about trading and business deals, economic activity is the primary concern of the government.
Despite the relatively advanced state of development of the Ferengi race, their female population still has not broken out of the subservient role that is forced upon them by the males.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Nebula/4156/ds9/astro/ferengi.html   (587 words)

  
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The Ferengi Alliance wisely stayed out of the Romulan Incursion but instead sold weapons and resources to both sides.
Thanks to this the Ferengi Alliance became the richest political entity in he galaxy.
Seeing this as a disadvantage because of the small size of the their space forces the Grand Nagus invested a large portion of the latinum in building up his space forces and enlarging the size of the Alliance.
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 The Ferengi Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Possessing a strict code of honor, Ferengi philosophy ruthlessly embraced the principles of capitalism.
The Ferengi are sexist in the extreme, and do not allow their females the honor of clothing, although Ferengi males often find human females very attractive.
Shortly after first contact with the Federation, Ferengi entrepreneurs saw new opportunities and quickly assimilated themselves into Federation commerce, as did Quark, a Ferengi who established a bar at Deep Space 9.
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 Ferengi Limerick :: LIGHT-HEARTED :: Janet's Star Trek Voyager Site - thousands of screenshots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kim suggests that he and his accomplice(s) should reprogram it so that the Vulcan monks recite Ferengi limericks.
I wondered what Ferengi limericks would be like.
Knowing Ferengi males, I reckon they would be bawdy.
www.star-trek-voyager.org /ferengi_limerick.htm   (100 words)

  
 modern companies vs ferengi alliance [Archive] - SpaceBattles.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Somehow the corporations of today (Microsoft, Sony, Intel etc.) emerge in the ST universe and they start consolidating their companies.
For balance reasons all earth-based companies have joined together into a mutual protection agrement to protect eachother if the ferengi take military action and have thus bought a substantial defense fleet.
Ferengis because Earth companies have never actually operated in a business as war environment as Ferengi do.
kier.3dfrontier.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-21775   (191 words)

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