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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @01:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @01:05AM (#456323)

    DATA: A comparison modern scholars have drawn from Earth history likens the Ferengi to the ocean-going Yankee traders of eighteenth and nineteenth century America, sir.
    RIKER: From the history of my forebears. Yankee traders.
    DATA: Who in this case sail the galaxy in search of mercantile and territorial opportunity.
    RIKER: And are those scholars saying the Ferengi may not unlike us?
    DATA: Hardly, sir. I believe this analogy refers to the worst quality of capitalists. The Ferengi are believed to conduct their affairs of commerce on the ancient principle caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware.
    RIKER: Yankee traders. I like the sound of that.
    DATA: Well, sir, I doubt they wear red, white and blue, or look anything like Uncle Sam.

    from season 1, the season nobody watched, when Patrick Steward himself was expecting TNG to flop.