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A Complete History of the Ferengi in Star Trek

One of the most controversial Star Trek: The Next Generation creations were the Ferengi, but they became an important alien species in its history.

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There are countless interesting alien species in the Star Trek universe, and they have rich histories both in the narrative and off-screen. While some species like Vulcans or Klingons are immediately iconic, others take some time to ingratiate themselves with the fan community. The history of the Ferengi is one such story, since Star Trek fans took some time to warm up to the aliens that were meant to be a critique of capitalism . In fact, the idea that the Federation had moved beyond capitalism was present in the universe since the Star Trek: The Original Series era.

While developing Star Trek: Phase II , Gene Roddenberry and his writers tried to figure out how the universe of the Federation continued to evolve. The first attempted sequel series would've been a mash-up of The Original Series era settings and characters, along with new elements to expand the universe. That series, however, evolved into Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the successive film series. However, for the 20th anniversary of the universe, Paramount tapped Roddenberry to create a new series, this time set well into the future so as not to bump up against the films. It was through this process that the Ferengi were created by Roddenberry to have a huge role in the next chapter of his Star Trek universe .

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When assembling the Phase II leftovers into Star Trek: The Next Generation , there were some changes that Roddenberry made. One such change was the idea that Klingons would no longer be the antagonists they were before, especially with the addition of Worf. Thus, he created the Ferengi and tapped producer Herbert J. Wright to further develop the species. Because the 1980s seemed to celebrate the idea of greed, the newest antagonists were meant to be a critique of that kind of capitalism. The Ferengi had a Hollywood twist, too, coming from "the stereotype of agents and lawyers being cutthroat, greedy and wanting only money," Wright told Cinefantastique in 1990.

After the first appearances of the Ferengi, fans hated them , and they were alone. Season 2 head writer Maurice Hurley also didn't enjoy the new antagonists. He called them "a waste of time" and said he was the "lone voice" speaking against them. Thus, when he took over, it was "good-bye Ferengi. They're out of here. Bring on the Borg!" he said in The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. However, it wasn't over for them. When Deep Space Nine debuted, the show rehabilitated the Ferengi beyond the single-note villains they were in The Next Generation .

Actor Armin Shimerman wanted to fix his mistake , in his view, in how he defined the species through his performance in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 5 "The Last Outpost." The Ferengi became a massive part of that series. They also appeared in both Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise , as well as showing up as background aliens in Star Trek: Discovery . Even with a rough beginning, the Ferengi found their place in the franchise and are here to stay.

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In the Star Trek universe, the Ferengi have a long history with "hew-mans" despite not making official first contact with the Federation until the 24th Century. One time-travel adventure that changed Star Trek canon was the Deep Space Nine Season 4 episode "Little Green Men" when a time-travel anomaly sent Quark, Rom and Nog to Roswell, New Mexico in the 1950s. The Ferengi purchased warp drive technology in the mid-22nd Century but remained a mysterious merchant race. A group of Ferengi boarded and took over the NX-01 Enterprise in Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1's "Acquisition." While some aliens like the Bolians, Menk and Valakians knew of them, Vulcans and humans did not.

In the mid-24th Century, the USS Stargazer under the command of Captain Picard encountered Ferengi, which attacked. He used a "high warp" trick which made the Stargazer seem to be in two places at once, later called the Picard Maneuver. They were eventually identified in "The Last Outpost," considered the official first contact moment. They had successive hostile contacts with the USS Enterprise-D, including personal revenge against Picard himself for that first attack. Many Ferengi still tried to menace the Federation, such as the group that encountered the USS Voyager through an unstable wormhole.

Through their interaction with the Federation on Deep Space 9, the Ferengi became cautious allies of Starfleet . Under Grand Nagus Zek, and his successor Rom, the Ferengi society underwent reforms. Women gained more rights, and the Ferengi even helped oppose the Dominion. Under Zek's successor, Grand Nagus Rom, the Ferengi Alliance joined the Federation in the late 24th Century when Captain Freeman out-negotiated him during Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 6, " Parth Ferengi's Heart Place ."

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During the run of Deep Space Nine , the Ferengi culture was further defined in ways The Next Generation never did. In fact, as the conflicts in that series between Starfleet and the Maquis, the Cardassians and Dominion unfolded, they became the conscience of the series. Quark often talked about how war was not good for "profit," however he, Rom and, especially, Nog were principled, moral characters. Rom left his brother's employ to become an engineer working for the Bajorans. However, it was his son Nog who had the most impact as a Ferengi on the universe.

Nog was the only other young character on the station, becoming fast friends with Jake Sisko. The latter, however, didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps and join Starfleet. Looking up to Captain Sisko, and with his help, Nog became the first Ferengi to join Starfleet . Later, Nog was injured in a battle against the Dominion, which led to the amputation of his leg. Nog had to overcome that trauma with the help of sentient hologram, Vic Fontaine . By the end of the series, he'd earned a promotion and, as far as canon goes, is still serving the galaxy with distinction.

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When the USS Discovery time traveled to the 32nd Century and helped rebuild Starfleet and the Federation, the Ferengi were still there . An unnamed captain was seen amongst the ranks of Starfleet officers. Even as founding members like Earth and Ni'Var (the renamed Vulcan) left it behind, the Ferengi stayed loyal to the idealistic galactic union. When the new series Starfleet Academy debuts, it's quite possible that more Ferengi characters will be introduced among the cadets or, perhaps, the academy professors. Perhaps by this time in the future, they'd left behind their capitalist ways, no longer caring about profit or gold-pressed Latinum.

On Star Trek: Lower Decks the Ferengi have appeared in a number of episodes, beyond the one in which the Ferengi Alliance officially joined the Federation . It was revealed that Quark is still on Deep Space 9, though his eponymous bar has become a franchise with locations all across the galaxy. Another Ferengi named Quimp is friends with Mariner and appeared in Lower Decks Season 1's "Envoys" impersonating a cruel, criminal so that her friend Brad Boimler could "save" her. Later, in "Part Ferengi's Heart Place," he helped Mariner get to the root of her malaise about her promotion and future in Starfleet.

Despite almost disappearing from Star Trek entirely in the early TNG seasons , the Ferengi have become as vital a part of the universe as any aliens. While they didn't become the "new Klingons" as was originally envisioned, their impact on galactic history is perhaps more profound because of it. Like most Star Trek antagonists, they've gone from simple villains to becoming full-fledged allies of Starfleet. Whatever is next for the Ferengi in this universe, it's bound to be interesting.

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While the Ferengi wheel trolleys in and start stealing the sickbay equipment, Trip breaks out of decon and starts spying on them while still in his undies. The Ferengi then start stealing more objects, including weapons, clothing, chairs, food, and the dedication plaque, then they drag all the women, plus Archer, into the launch bay. They handcuff Archer to a handhold, wake him up, and demand to know where the "vault" is. He tries to explain that the Enterprise doesn't have one, but they don't believe him. They discuss the situation, revealing that one of them is named Krem and is Ulis's cousin, and Archer sees Trip.

When Krem plans on selling the Enterprise women into slavery, Archer pretends that the Enterprise does indeed have a vault, full of gold bars. He offers to help them find the vault if he can keep half the gold, then downgrades it to 35%, but the Ferengi aren't interested and decide to proceed without his help. Krem then makes Archer help him load the stolen objects onto his and Ulis's ship, and the two talk. Archer learns that the species is materialistic and that Krem is at the mercy of Ulis when it comes to business but doesn't seem to mind. Archer then sees Trip approaching and gets Krem out of the way by having him retrieve food and water, which Krem does, but not without handcuffing Archer again.

Trip tells Archer that all the hyposprays and phase-pistols have been stolen, so Archer tells Trip to get the hypospray that woke him from the launch bay. Krem comes back, Trip leaves, and he injects T'Pol with the hypospray and makes several failed attempts to inject Hoshi. T'Pol wakes up and concludes that the device they retrieved from the moon must have been put there by the aliens and knocked everyone out. Krem and Archer enter, so T'Pol pretends to still be unconscious and Trip hides. Krem takes a shine to T'Pol, then Archer and Krem leave with the captain. Trip realises that since the hypospray is evidently empty, he, T'Pol, and Archer will have to take back the ship on their own.

Trip borrows a science officer's uniform, while T'Pol observes Ulis with two other Ferengi named Grish and Muk in sickbay. Ulis and Grish think the imaging chamber is the vault, but Muk isn't sure. They open it and find a medical tool, which Muk wants to keep, and the others only agree to let him keep it if he can have less gold. Trip puts a security lock on the bio-matter resequencer, while T'Pol spies on the Ferengi discussing how to search for the vault in the situation room. She causes the com system to make a loud squealing noise, which bothers the Ferengi, and takes the three scanners the Ferengi stole. The Ferengi find and turn off the noise, while T'Pol puts two of the scanners in Ulis's bag to make it seem like he stole them from Muk and start an argument. Muk notices the third scanner is still nowhere to be seen and chases after Grish, while T'Pol watches.

In engineering, Krem has Archer take apart the warp core, and Archer tries to convince Krem to help him put the others in the brig in exchange for half the money, but Krem refuses. Meanwhile, Grish and Muk try to interrogate Porthos, and when he doesn't understand, they wonder if Archer wants to eat him since he's a "lower life-form". Muk puts Porthos into a cargo container in the launch bay, but then sees Trip and chases him, telling the other Ferengi that a crew member is awake. Trip runs into the mess hall, where he steals Muk's weapon, but is attacked with an energy whip.

While Krem and Archer load items into the Ferengi ship, Archer tries to convince Krem that he's being exploited, then the rest of the Ferengi enter with Trip, considering taking what they have to avoid running into more crew. Muk and Grish prepare to start hauling the women onto the ship, but Trip stops them, pretending that he will show them the vault if they leave the women alone, and that Hoshi is his wife. Archer pretends to be mad at Trip for disobeying them and Ulis accepts the offer. The Ferengi follow Trip, except for Krem, who tries to protest, but is eventually made to stay behind and finish loading the ship. Archer pretends that he has an injury that's flaring up, so Krem handcuffs him and keeps loading.

He encounters T'Pol, who pretends the humans are keeping her prisoner. He asks her to give him oo'mox (a type of Ferengi foreplay involving stroking the earlobes) and she does, but then nerve pinches him and leaves with the keys to Archer's handcuffs and a phase-pistol. Trip leads the rest of the Ferengi to the bio-matter resequencer and pretends it's the vault, then T'Pol stuns them all.

She rescues Archer, then the two, now armed, force the Ferengi to give everything back and Archer gets Porthos back. The Ferengi then get handcuffed on their own ship, except for Krem, who Archer warns that he will tell the authorities about him and his species. The Enteprise leave, with Krem's coworkers still handcuffed.

Tropes in this episode include:

• Badass Bandolier : One of the Ferengi wears crossed bandoliers. Given his species, he needs all the help looking badass that he can get.
• Bald of Evil : The opening shot is of the camera moving over the top of a Ferengi's head to reveal their target: Enterprise !
• Big "SHUT UP!" : When Krem is the only Ferengi not shackled to the bulkheads. Ulis: Let me go, you idiot! Krem: SHUT UP!
• Blood from the Mouth : Used non-fatally. Archer is bleeding in the mouth after being punched in the face during his interrogation .
• Bond One-Liner : After Trip and T'Pol stun the Ferengi in the "vault". Trip: Sorry, fellas...bank must be closed today.
• Krem takes an obvious liking to T'Pol. His... Vulcan Love Slave ?
• Krem mispronounces the name of Archer's species as "hu-mon," which either coincidentally resembles or actually originates the mild slur used by Ferengi toward humans in DS9.
• Cassandra Truth : The Ferengi are convinced that Enterprise has a vault of valuable goodies, and refuse to believe Archer when he tries to convince them otherwise (even giving him a phaser rifle to the face ).
• The Ferengi never mention the name of their species.
• "Do I look like a Menk to you?"
• Distracted by the Sexy : T'Pol starts giving Krem oo'mox to make him pliable—and neck-pinches him out.
• Dramatic Irony : Muk wonders if Archer wants to eat Porthos, when we viewers know that Porthos is Archer's pet.
• Energy Weapon : The Ferengi energy whip is back.
• Fake a Fight : Archer and Trip pretend to fight each other to make it look like Trip is giving in to the Ferengi's demands.
• Grew a Spine : Krem starts standing up to Ulis and refuses to do any more manual labor. Subverted , though, when Ulis yells at him to get back to work, and he does. Krem: I'm tired of doing this job! I don't want to do all the menial work! Ulis: Krem! Krem: It's time that I showed a little in-initiative! I have the lobes for business! You just never give me the chance to prove it! Ulis: Get back to work! Krem: ( Beat ) Yes, cousin. (the others snicker and leave) Archer: You...sure told him.
• Groin Attack : Of a sort. This episode establishes how sensitive a Ferengi's ears are as an erogenous zone early on, so when Trip bites a Ferengi on the ear later on it spiritually amounts to this.
• Guile Hero : Archer and T'Pol take advantage of the Ferengi's greed to play them against each other while Trip sets a trap for them.
• Interspecies Romance : Krem the Ferengi is attracted to T'Pol the Vulcan.
• Kick the Dog : One of the Ferengi stuffs Porthos into a cargo container.
• Lured into a Trap : Trip lures the Ferengi into a room that they think is the secret vault—where T'Pol stuns them.
• Mr. Fanservice : Trip spends half the episode in his undies.
• The entire crew is knocked out by an alien artifact (actually something the Ferengi planted) which released Knockout Gas throughout the ship. Rather than examine it in a contained area, it was opened in the middle of engineering.
• To be fair, it's not the brig, just a containment area, and this is the chief engineer we're talking about.
• Obfuscating Disability : At one point, Archer pretends to be suffering from an old water polo injury.
• Reset Button : In order to protect the canon first contact with the Enterprise-D , the Ferengi never identify themselves and promise to stay as far away from Earth or Vulcan ships as possible.
• They Just Dont Get It : The Ferengi are not able to comprehend that United Earth is a post scarcity society. When Arher tells Krem that the way of life that the Ferengi hold religiously almost destroyed Earth, Krem, totally baffled tells him his people should have managed their businesses better.
• Translation by Volume : Played for Laughs when the Ferengi reach Archer's quarters and... Grish: Where is the vault? Do you understand me? Porthos: (barks) Grish: I can't lock onto its language. Muk: ("Seriously?" expression) It's a lower lifeform, you fool! Probably the captain's next meal. Grish: Are you sure? Look at its ears
• Translation Convention : Averted; the Ferengi are introduced speaking their own language.
• Troll : Archer talks up how awful T'Pol is to stop the Ferengi taking off with her . In payback, T'Pol refuses to release Archer until he apologises . Archer: Open these [handcuffs], Subcommander. That's an Order! .
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8 Coolest Starships From Star Trek: The Next Generation

These are some of the coolest-looking ships that stand out the most in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

• The Galor-class cruiser introduced the brutal might of the Cardassian Union, setting itself apart with a fish-like design.
• The USS Pasteur, a hospital ship with a spherical hull, met a tragic end in a Klingon attack after being specialized for medical aid.
• The Borg cube, with its unique design, proved to be a terrifying opponent by easily defeating the Enterprise-D and annihilating Starfleet vessels.

Following the success of the Star Trek movies of the 1980s, the franchise returned to the small screen with The Next Generation , a sequel series set a century after the exploits of Captain Kirk. Under the command of the stoic Captain Jean-Luc Picard , the Enterprise -D continued Starfleet's mission to explore the galaxy, discovering a wide range of civilizations, scientific mysteries, and deadly new threats along the way.

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While The Next Generation favored philosophy and moral dilemmas over melodrama and technobabble, the series still delivered when it came to fascinating technology and innovative vessels. From the Enterprise -D itself to the rarely seen D'kora- class Ferengi Maurader, the show's seven seasons featured a bounty of notable starships.

8 Galor-class Cruiser

First appearance: "the wounded" (season 4, episode 12).

As well as being a showcase for tortured everyman Miles O'Brien , "The Wounded" introduces both the Cardassians and their iconic Galor -class cruisers. The fish-like shaping of the Galor -class (a design choice replicated in later Cardassian vessels) sets the starships of the Cardassian Union apart from other alien civilizations. However, despite its naturalistic appearance, the cruiser is a capable warship that serves as the backbone of the Cardassian military.

Indeed, while the Galor -class is less well known in popular culture than many ships from The Next Generation , it came to symbolize the brutal might of the Cardassian Union within both the series itself and in Deep Space Nine . The Cardassian cruiser may be something of a hidden gem, but it nonetheless deserves to be remembered as one of Star Trek 's coolest starships.

7 USS Pasteur

First appearance: "all good things..." (season 7, episodes 25 & 26).

Starfleet is no stranger to specialized starships: the USS Defiant seen in Deep Space Nine is a dedicated warship, while the USS Voyager , despite its heavy armament, is ostensibly a science vessel. Yet few Starfleet vessels are as practically focused as the USS Pasteur , an Olympic -class hospital ship under the command of Captain Beverly Crusher. In the alternate timeline glimpsed by Picard in "All Good Things", the Pasteur is assigned to help those suffering from Terrelian plague on Romulus.

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The Pasteur represents a radical departure from conventional Starfleet design doctrine , as the vessel's primary hull is spherical rather than saucer-shaped. This additional internal space no doubt provides additional room for laboratories, wards, and surgical theaters. Unfortunately, the Pastuer 's fate shows that no good deed goes unpunished, as it destroyed in a Klingon attack.

6 Ferengi Marauder

First appearance: "the last outpost" (season 1, episode 5).

"The Last Outpost" sees the Enterprise -D come face to face with a D'kora -class Ferengi Marauder. This multi-function vessel is capable of operating not only as a cargo ship (as per the Ferengi's mercantile ideology ) but also as a fearsome warship. Indeed, during the Enterprise- D's first encounter with a Ferengi Marauder, the alien vessel was able to greatly weaken the Galaxy -class starship's deflector shields using a powerful electromagnetic pulse.

The imposing D'kora -class would make several more appearances in The Next Generation and even cameoed in Voyager , albeit as a CGI recreation of the original model. Despite the prominence of the Ferengi in Deep Space Nine , this cruiser is absent from the groundbreaking series, perhaps suggesting that the Ferengi Alliance could only afford to field a few of these versatile vessels.

5 USS Jenolan

First appearance: "relics" (season 6, episode 4).

While attempting to respond to a distress signal from the USS Jenolan in "Relics", the Enterprise -D discovers the Sydney -class starship crash-landed on the surface of a massive Dyson sphere. Picard and his crew are 75 years late to the scene of the accident, but they are able to recover a survivor: Montgomery Scott of Captain Kirk's Enterprise , who has preserved himself in the starship's transporter pattern buffer.

However, there is more to the Jenolan than its celebrity captain. In terms of appearance, it is a deviation from the norm when it comes to Starfleet vessels, as it lacks a saucer section. That the Jenolan bears a passing resemblance to the Danube -class runabouts seen in Deep Space Nine should come as no surprise, as these auxiliary vessels were heavily influenced by the design of the Sydney -class transport.

4 Romulan Warbird

First appearance: "the neutral zone" (season 1, episode 26).

The D'deridex -class Romulan warbird makes its debut in the closing minutes of The Next Generation 's "The Neutral Zone". The Romulans aboard the mighty starship tell Picard and his crew that they mean business, and the sleek yet powerful design of their vessel only underlines their message. The D'deridex -class would go on to make many more appearances across the franchise, making it one of Star Trek 's most iconic villain ships.

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One advantage of the Romulan warbird over its rivals is the fact that it is equipped with a cloaking device. This stealth technology, coupled with the D'deridex 's considerable firepower, makes it a dangerous threat in any military confrontation. As such, it makes sense that the starship is often deployed in intense military situations, such as during standoffs against the Enteprise -D and throughout Deep Space Nine 's Dominion War .

3 USS Enterprise-C

First appearance: "yesterday's enterprise" (season 3, episode 15).

Although various iterations of the Starship Enterprise play key roles throughout the Star Trek franchise, not every starship to bear the name is as prolific as The Next Generation 's Enterprise -D. Indeed, the Excelsior -class Enterprise -B makes only a brief cameo in 1994's Star Trek: Generations , while its successor, the Enterprise -C, only appears in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". However, despite its lack of screen-time, the Enterprise -C is involved in one of the most pivotal events in Federation history: the Battle of Narenda III.

The Ambassador -class vessel is destroyed protecting a Klingon colony from a Romulan sneak attack, impressing the Klingons and laying the groundwork for the Treaty of Alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. While the Enterprise -C may resemble an awkward merging of Original Series and Next Generation aesthetics, its contribution to Federation history cannot be understated.

2 Borg Cube

First appearance: "q who" (season 2, episode 16).

The Borg are one of science fiction's most memorable villains, due in part to their relentless and single-minded push to assimilate other species. Yet much of the Borg's enduring appeal can be attributed to the excellent visual design of the Borg cube. Envisaged by writer Maurice Hurley and realized by designer Richard James, the iconic vessel is based on an architectural language that is entirely distinct from other Star Trek ships.

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However, the Borg cube is more than just an unusual design: it is also a terrifying opponent. The initial Borg cube seen in "Q Who" easily bests the Enterprise -D, while another cube annihilates a large flotilla of Starfleet vessels at the cataclysmic Battle of Wolf 359 in "The Best of Both Worlds". The Borg cube may look simple, but it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

1 USS Enterprise-D

First appearance: "encounter at farpoint" (season 1, episodes 1 & 2).

No discussion of The Next Generation can be complete without referring to the USS Enteprise -D, the starship that is as integral to the series as any of the show's characters. While earlier iterations of Star Trek toyed with the concept of the Enterprise as a living space as well as an exploratory vessel, The Next Generation fully embraces the idea with the Galaxy -class starship. Boasting schools, families, and a sizable civilian contingent, the ship is perhaps the best example of Gene Roddenberry's utopian future in practice—even if taking children on frequent military missions doesn't make a whole lot of sense .

As the hero ship of The Next Generation , the Enterprise -D plays a central role in shaping the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, whether through its amazing discoveries of a shared link between many of the galaxy's civilizations or its repeated battles against the Borg Collective. When it comes to Next Generation starships, the Enterprise -D is second to none.

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8 Alpha Quadrant Things Star Trek: Voyager Found In Delta Quadrant

• Star Trek: Voyager finds familiar things from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant, sparking important questions and connections.
• Encounter with Ferengi negotiators leads Voyager crew to stop their interference in a pre-warp civilization for profits.
• Janeway and crew discover humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s living in the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart.

For a show with the conceit of being so far from home, Star Trek: Voyager found a surprising number of things in the Delta Quadrant that originated in the Alpha Quadrant, including several from Earth itself. The USS Voyager, commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and Commander Chakotay's (Robert Beltran) Maquis raider Val Jean were both brought to the Delta Quadrant in 2371 by the Caretaker (Basil Langton). After Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array to save the Ocampa , Voyager and the Val Jean were left without a ticket back to the Alpha Quadrant, and banded together to make the long journey.

Finding something familiar in an otherwise totally alien corner of the galaxy brought a sense of familiarity to the USS Voyager crew and viewers at home alike, but the presence of something from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant inevitably raised important questions , like how familiar people and objects traveled 70,000 light years from home in the first place, and whether the find could lead Captain Kathryn Janeway towards a quicker path home to Earth.

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A pair of ferengi negotiators, arridor and kol, star trek: voyager season 3, episode 5 "false profits".

The USS Voyager encounters a pair of Ferengi negotiators, Arridor (Dan Shor) and Kol (Leslie Jordan), who claim to be the prophesied Great Sages of the Takarians, a society with Bronze Age level technology. The Ferengi have no Prime Directive to deter them from interfering with the Takarians' development , so they're performing "miracles" with a standard replicator to reap the monetary benefits of the Takarians' worship. Voyager's crew know the Ferengi reputation well enough to know they're no Sages, so they must figure out how to put a stop to Arridor and Kol's grift.

"False Profits" serves as a Star Trek sequel episode to Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 8 "The Price", as Voyager catches up with Arridor and Kol (formerly played by J. R. Quinonez) seven years after their Delta Quadrant arrival. The Ferengi took a test flight through the supposedly stable wormhole near Barzan II, which was supposed to emerge in the Gamma Quadrant, but instead stranded the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant, where they made the best of their situation as only Ferengi can.

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"Distant Origin" opens on Forra Gegen (Henry Woronicz), a scientist who discovers that his people, the Voth, share certain genetic similarities with the humans aboard the USS Voyager. While this confirms Gegen's theory that the Voth are the descendants of a species brought to their homeworld millions of years ago , religious leader Minister Odala (Concetta Tomei) refuses to accept the truth. Even with Commander Chakotay present as a living specimen of humanity, Odala pushes Gegen to recant, because Gegen's theory goes against the Voth Doctrine that keeps Odala in power.

After meeting Gegen's assistant, Tova Veer (Christopher Liam Moore), Janeway and the Doctor use the holodeck as a research guide to extrapolate how hadrosaurs might look in the 24th century if they'd been able to evolve into a humanoid form with comparable intelligence. The result resembles Veer, so Janeway and the Doctor conclude, like Gegen, that the Voth evolved from hadrosaurs into a highly advanced species on Earth , then fled to the Delta Quadrant in spacefaring vessels instead of being wiped out with the other dinosaurs.

The Friendship One Probe

Star trek: voyager season 7, episode 21 "friendship one".

By Star Trek: Voyager season 7 , the USS Voyager is in regular contact with Starfleet Command, and Starfleet gives Voyager a mission to retrieve a 21st-century Earth probe, Friendship One . The probe proves difficult to find, but once discovered on an alien planet suffering devastating climate collapse, the implications of Friendship One's launch become clear. Besides the irreversible damage to the planet's climate, the inhabitants are all suffering from radiation sickness, and bear understandable hostility towards Earth, because the aliens believe humans orchestrated their destruction with the Friendship One probe.

The United Earth Space Probe Agency was one of the early names for the organization the USS Enterprise belongs to in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Charlie X".

Friendship One was launched in 2067 by the United Earth Space Probe Agency with the intention of making friends with whomever found it, as the name implies. Although Friendship One, the 400-year-old Earth probe, traveled for centuries carrying messages of peace, musical recordings, and ways to translate languages, the people who discovered Friendship One in the Delta Quadrant took a greater interest in the antimatter it used to travel across space. Without the proper knowledge of its use, antimatter proved devastating to the planet and its people, resulting in death and disease for generations.

Dreadnought, a Cardassian Missile

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 17 "dreadnought".

The USS Voyager discovers a dangerously powerful, self-guided Cardassian missile in the Delta Quadrant, which Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) recognizes as one nicknamed "Dreadnought" . When B'Elanna was with the Maquis, Torres had actually reprogrammed the missile herself, with the intention of turning the Cardassians' own weapon against them. Without a Cardassian target in sight, the artificially intelligent Cardassian Dreadnought targets a heavily-populated Class-M planet , Rakosa V. B'Elanna determines she must be the one to keep Dreadnought from hurting anyone else, and boards the missile to convince it to stand down.

While no concrete reason is given for exactly how the Dreadnought wound up in the Delta Quadrant, its last known location in the Alpha Quadrant was the Badlands, the same rough patch of space where Voyager and the Val Jean, Chakotay's Maquis raider, fatefully met. Because of this, Torres theorizes that Dreadnought arrived in the Delta Quadrant the same way that Voyager and the Val Jean did , courtesy of the Caretaker.

Star Trek: Voyagers BElanna Is More Klingon Than TNGs Worf Ever Was

A klingon d-7 class cruiser, complete with klingons, star trek: voyager, season 7, episode 14 "prophecy".

The USS Voyager certainly never expected to find a Klingon ship in the Delta Quadrant, but more surprising is the fact that the crew of the Klingon D-7 Class Cruiser believes their savior, the prophesied kuvah'magh, is aboard Voyager . Janeway assures the Klingon captain, Kohlar (Wren T. Brown), that the Federation and Klingon Empire have been allies for the past 80 years, and offers Voyager's own half-Klingon, Lt. B'Elanna Torres, as proof their societies are working together now. The kuvah'magh is Torres' unborn daughter, who does save the Klingons, but not the way they expected.

Centuries ago, Kohlar's great-grandfather set off on a quest to find the kuvah'magh, and the Klingon D-7 Cruiser became a generation ship that is now crewed by the descendants of its original crew . The quest begun by Kohlar's great-grandfather brought Kohlar and his crew to the Delta Quadrant after four generations of searching. Whether B'Elanna's child is actually the kuvah'magh or not, Kohlar desperately wants the baby to be their savior, so that his people may finally rest.

Amelia Earhart

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 1 "the 37s".

The discovery of a 1936 Ford truck, seemingly disconnected from any parent vehicle, leads the USS Voyager to a nearby Class-L planet, where they find eight humans who have been in cryo-stasis since they were abducted by aliens in the 1930s. Among them are one of Janeway's personal heroes, legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) , who disappeared without a trace while attempting to fly around the world, and Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan (David Graf). Earhart and the other preserved humans are known by the planet's inhabitants as "The 37s", and revered as sacred.

Originally thought to be aliens, the natives of the unnamed planet are the descendants of humans. A species called the Briori abducted the natives' ancestors, along with Earhart and the other 37s, from Earth centuries earlier , and took them to the Delta Quadrant. Once held as slaves, the humans who weren't in stasis revolted to free themselves from the Briori, and developed a thriving, Earth-like civilization in the Delta Quadrant. Voyager's crew consider staying with the humans in their little slice of home, while Janeway also offers a ride back to Earth to anyone who wants it, including Amelia Earhart.

The USS Equinox

Star trek: voyager season 5, episode 26 & season 6, episode 1 "equinox".

The crew of the USS Voyager believe they're the only Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant until they find the USS Equinox, five years into their journey home. Captain Rudolph Ransom (John Savage) and the Equinox crew have had a harder time in the Delta Quadrant than Voyager, with more damage, fewer starting resources, and fewer opportunities to make friends along the way. Ransom's survival tactics include sacrificing innocent nucleogenic life forms for a more efficient form of fuel, which Janeway finds hard to stomach, and decides that Ransom needs to be held accountable for defying Federation ideals, regardless of how badly the Equinox is damaged.

Although Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) suggests that the Equinox might be in the Delta Quadrant on a rescue mission to find Voyager, the USS Equinox's specs don't fit the profile of a starship that would be assigned to a long-range mission. The explanation of how the Equinox arrived in the Delta Quadrant in the first place seems fairly simple, because Captain Ransom tells Janeway that the Equinox was also abducted by the Caretaker , just like Voyager, but the Equinox has only been in the Delta Quadrant for 2 years, and Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array 5 years earlier.

Seven of Nine

Debuts in star trek: voyager season 4, episode 1 "scorpion, part 2".

When Captain Kathryn Janeway allies with the Borg in order to secure safe passage across Borg space, Janeway refuses the cursory assimilation that the Borg want to use to communicate with Janeway and Voyager's crew, and instead requests a speaker for the Borg, citing the existence of Locutus (Patrick Stewart) as precedent. Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, is selected as the Borg drone to act as liaison between the Collective and Voyager, likely because Seven of Nine had once been a member of Species 5168, like most of Voyager's crew -- in other words, human.

Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey.

After Seven's link with the Collective is severed, more information about Seven's human origin comes to light. In Voyager season 4, episode 6 "The Raven", when Voyager nears the Hansens' ship, the USS Raven, memories of Seven's early life surface, revealing that Seven had been six-year-old human Annika Hansen , the daughter of Magnus Hansen (Kirk Baily) and Erin Hansen (Laura Stepp), Federation scientists who were studying the Borg when they were assimilated. Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey, showing the Raven arriving in the Delta Quadrant by following a Borg Cube through a transwarp conduit.

10 Ways USS Voyager Changed In Star Treks Delta Quadrant

Star Trek: Voyager links back to the greater Star Trek universe with people and starships from the Alpha Quadrant. Connections to the familiar were especially important early on, because Voyager 's place in the Star Trek franchise was established and aided by the legitimacy these finds offered. Later, when the USS Voyager used the Hirogen communications array to communicate with Starfleet Command, links back to the Alpha Quadrant were plentiful again, not only to prove that the USS Voyager was closer to home, but to help Star Trek: Voyager maintain connections to Star Trek and carry the franchise in its final years.

Star Trek: Voyager is available to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Voyager

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Michael Piller, Rick Berman

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Rating TV-PG

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The USS Discovery is on a mad chase across the galaxy for one of Star Trek’s biggest secrets

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Calling back to a single 30-year-old episode of television is a time-honored Star Trek tradition , one that’s led the franchise to some of its most fascinating detours. And in its two-episode season premiere, Star Trek: Discovery seems to be kicking off an entire season calling back to one particular episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

And not just any episode! The 1993 installment of Next Gen in question delivered a revelation so seemingly earth-shaking that it should have rewritten galactic politics on a massive scale. But then, as was the way in the 1990s era of episodic TV, nobody ever mentioned it again.

At least until now.

[ Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5.]

Writer Michelle Paradise and director Olatunde Osunsanmi lay out the connection at the end of the first of two episodes released this week, “Red Directive.” Discovery’s mission is to follow a series of ancient clues leading to a cache of ancient technology, and to get there before a couple of professional thieves, Moll (Eve Harlow) and L’ak (Elias Toufexis), do.

The technology, as Doctor Kovich (David Cronenberg) explains, belongs to the so-called Progenitors, a barely understood ancient spacefaring species that “created life as we know it […] every humanoid species in the galaxy.” Presumably such tech holds the key to understanding how the Progenitors did that, and how that power could be used again.

The Progenitors are from the Star Trek episode “The Chase”

Kovich also calls up a helpful video presentation of the moment the Progenitors were discovered by an assembled group of Federation, Klingon, Romulan, and Cardassian captains, including Jean-Luc Picard. But you don’t have to be a Star Trek lore nerd to know you’re actually just looking at clips from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Specifically, from the 20th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s sixth season, “The Chase,” in which Picard and crew discover pieces of a computer program hidden inside the DNA of species from dozens of different planets. Questions abound: What does the program do? And what kind of entity could have been so ancient and powerful that it had determined the genetic legacy of most of the known galaxy before sentient life had even evolved here — and then left no trace of its existence except the genetic codes themselves?

In a nutshell, the mysterious death of Captain Picard’s old archeology professor (did you know that if he hadn’t gone into Starfleet, Jean-Luc was studying to be a space archeologist? Well, now you do) sets the captain and the Enterprise on a search for the missing DNA fragments necessary to complete his unfinished work.

The action of the episode becomes a grand chase, as Klingon and Cardassian captains come to believe the program must be a great weapon or dangerous secret. Eventually Picard and his rivals all discover the lonely planet with the final DNA strain — and when they get there, some Romulans who’ve been secretly following all of them show up, too, just to make things even more tense.

In the end, the program isn’t a weapon or a secret, but a message from an ancient race of humanoids that apparently created sentient life in our galaxy as we know it.

Actor Salome Jens appears as a Progenitor hologram, and delivers a speech that’s stirring by any standard of Star Trek monologues, telling the story of a race of sentients that took to the stars and found them empty. They had evolved too early to meet other forms of sentient life, and knew that their time was too limited to ever expect to.

“We knew that one day we would be gone; that nothing of us would survive, so we left you,” Jens’ Progenitor explains. The Progenitors seeded humanoid life across the galaxy in their own image; life that tended to evolve into bipedal, tailless, largely hairless creatures with two eyes and two arms and five fingers on each hand. And they left clues in the genetic signature of their work, broken up among the stars.

Wait, was this really all about lampshading the limits of Star Trek’s alien design?

Kinda, yes! The writers of “The Chase,” Ron Moore and Joe Menosky, were inspired by elements of Carl Sagan’s Contact , but also by Menosky’s pet fascination creating an in-universe explanation for why all the common alien species in Star Trek are basically shaped like humans (albeit with latex on their faces).

In other hands, it would be hokey and trite, but even under heavy makeup, Jens sells the hell out of her single scene on voice and stance alone — it’s no wonder she was asked back to the Trek fold to play a major antagonist role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

“It was our hope that you would have to come together in fellowship and companionship to hear this message, and if you can see and hear me, our hope has been fulfilled,” the Progenitor hologram concludes, with gentle compassion. “You are a monument, not to our greatness, but to our existence. That was our wish: That you, too, would know life. [...] There is something of us in each of you, and so something of you in each other.”

But though “The Chase” carried a sweeping revelation, nothing ever really panned out from it. You’d think that a message of togetherness that fundamentally rewrote the origin of life in the universe would have to have tweaked Star Trek’s galactic politics a bit, right? Seems like this would give the Star Trek setting a radically different understanding of the origins of life than we have in the real world — this is literally intelligent design! At the very least there’d be some other characters talking about how humans and Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans and Ferengi and Cardassians and Trill and Bajorans, all share the same genetic ancestor.

But nope: The Pandora’s box of Progenitor lore remained closed. Gene Roddenberry’s successor and Trek producer Rick Berman seems to have been disenchanted with the episode’s reveal — and you can’t really blame him for not wanting to rock the whole cosmology of Star Trek in an episode that’s mostly about explaining how if you turn the DNA snippets like this they make a cool spiral. Now look at this computer screen with the spiral :

Except now, Star Trek: Discovery is opening the box and rocking the boat. This new mad, puzzle-box chase around the galaxy promises to expand on the Progenitors, an idea so big that not even The Next Generation was willing to touch it. It’s a tall order, but Discovery has never been more free to shake up Star Trek continuity than it is right now — we’ll have to wait for more episodes of the show’s final season to find out how free it intends to be.

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The Best Star Trek Siblings

Best friends and/or bitter rivals, here are some best groups of siblings from throughout the Star Trek universe.

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The Star Trek universe is full of siblings. Sometimes they are the best of friends. Sometimes they are bitter rivals. But, regardless of the tenor of their relationship, each familial clan still thrives and stands out through the rich storytelling the franchise serves up.

The rules for this list are as follows — they have to have appeared on-screen (not merely mentioned) and be identified as a sibling, no matter if that means biological, adopted, foster, or chosen. Additionally, siblings connected through different familial relationships are kept separate.

In celebration of Siblings Day, here are the a handful of the best sets or groups of siblings from throughout the entire franchise.

22. Wesley and Jack Crusher

Dr. Beverly Crusher bore two incredible gifted sons — Wesley Crusher (son of Jack R. Crusher) and Jack Crusher (son of Jean-Luc Picard). Despite being decades apart in age, we're certain Wesley's journey as The Traveler allowed him to watch over his mother and half-brother from afar.

Losing her husband, the elder Jack, and Wesley to the stars made Beverly more protective of her youngest child, hiding him away from all of Jean-Luc's enemies and Jean-Luc himself.

21. D'Vana and D'Erika Tendi

"Something Borrowed, Something Green"

The daughters of B'Rt and Shona Tendi, one of the fifth largest families in the Orion Crime Syndicate, grew up very close. However, D'Vana would crave more out of life other than piracy. Pursuing her love of science and space, D'Vana would leave the family trade and her role as the Prime for a career in Starfleet.

D'Erika would see this abandonment as a betrayal as it forced her to take on the role as the family's prime assassin and live in the shadow of her sister's Mistress of the Winter Constellations legacy. The two sisters would reconcile when D'Vana returned home to Orion following news that her sister was kidnapped ahead of her nuptials. In later negotiations to save her best friend Beckett Mariner and provide the Cerritos with an Orion warship, D'Vana negotiates an offer D'Erika cannot refuse — her return to Orion, reuniting the sisters once more.

20. Worf and Nikolai Rozhenko

"Homeward"

The son of Worf’s foster parents, Nikolai Rozhenko, and Worf didn’t get along as children, though they respected each other’s strong wills and personalities. Their paths crossed as adults when Worf was assigned to prevent his foster brother from further violating the Prime Directive as he observed a race known as the Boraalans.

19. Cleveland Booker and Kyheem

"Sanctuary"

Though not biologically related, Cleveland Booker and Kyheem referred to each other as brothers. Raised together, Kyheem felt Booker was a coward who abandoned their family. They shared the same empathic abilities and worked together to drive the Emerald Chain’s swarms of locusts to the ocean, healing their rift in the process.

18. Tasha and Ishara Yar

Tasha Yar essentially raised her younger sister Ishara on the torturous colony Turkana IV. The two sisters parted ways as young teenagers when Tasha escaped their homeworld and joined Starfleet. They never saw each other again; Ishara resented her sister.

Years later, Ishara used her relationship to Tasha to manipulate the crew of Enterprise into helping her commit an act of terrorism.

17. Kestra and Deanna Troi

"Nepenthe"

The firstborn child of Ian and Lwaxana Troi, Kestra Troi died in a tragic accident when she was six years old, shortly after the birth of her younger sister Deanna. Deanna learned of her late sister while helping her mother through a traumatic telepathic episode on the Enterprise .

Some years later, Deanna would go on to name her first daughter Kestra after her sister.

16. Narek and Narissa

"Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

Two of the children of members of the mysterious Romulan cabal known as the Zhat Vash, Narek and Narissa were committed to the group's efforts of annihilating all artificial life in the galaxy. They worked together in this effort, though distrusted each other and frequently questioned and criticized each other’s methods. Narek often felt inferior to Narissa as he believed she judged him as the family's "Zhat Vash washout."

15. Ezri, Norvo, and Janel Tigan

"Prodigal Daughter"

Before she was Ezri Dax, she was Ezri Tigan, the middle child between two brothers, Norvo and Janel. Though there was tension in their family, Ezri was particularly close to her brother Norvo who she believed had several artistic gifts. The three siblings went their separate ways after Ezri learned Norvo had murdered a woman and Janel was involved with the Orion Syndicate.

14. Paul and Travis Mayweather

"Horizon"

Like many brothers, a stiff sibling rivalry existed between Travis Mayweather and his younger brother Paul. Paul resented Travis for leaving their family’s cargo ship the Horizon to join Starfleet.

When the two brothers reunited during Travis' visit "home" to the ship, Travis used his Starfleet training to upgrade the Horizon 's system, further irritating, but also helping Paul, and allowing a bit of a détente between them.

13. Kor, Curzon, and Jadzia Dax

"The Sword of Kahless"

Having first met during the peace negotiations between The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Klingon warrior Kor and Trill Curzon Dax formed a close bond through adventurous escapades together, referring to each other as a blood brother.

When the Dax symbiont was passed from Curzon to Jadzia, Kor continued their familial relationship, going on more adventures with his blood sister.

12. Spock and Sybok

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

The two sons of the Vulcan Sarek, Spock and Sybok travelled very different paths. Although half human, Spock embraced the logical traditions of his people, while his older brother Sybok, a full Vulcan, rejected them, instead embracing emotions.

Estranged for decades, the brothers reunited and reconciled after a fashion when Sybok hijacked the Enterprise as part of his quest to find the Edenic Sha-Ka-Ree in the center of the galaxy.

11. Worf and Martok

"Soldiers of the Empire"

Worf and Klingon General Martok first encountered each other in a Dominion prison camp. They helped each other survive and subsequently fought side-by-side in the Dominion War.

After Worf helped Martok rediscover his honor and courage, the General welcomed Worf into his House as a brother. The two were almost inseparable after that, supporting each other with honor through the trials of their lives.

10. Dahj and Soji (and their Coppelia siblings)

Created from a single positronic neuron by Dr. Bruce Maddox and Dr. Altan Soong through a process called fractal neuronic cloning, Dahj and Soji were twins who appeared to be fully human. The women each separately encountered Jean-Luc Picard. Though Dahj was killed, Soji relied on Picard to save her home world, Coppelia, where dozens of other synthetic twins who had been created from Data’s neural network also lived.

9. Molly and Yoshi O’Brien

"Time's Orphan"

The children of the man considered by many to be the most important officer in Starfleet history, Molly and Kirayoshi O’Brien were both born under unique circumstances. Molly was born when the Enterprise was struck by a quantum filament, disabling the ship. While pregnant with Yoshi, Keiko O’Brien was injured on a mission, necessitating her son’s transfer into Kira Nerys’ womb, who carried him to term. Molly doted on Yoshi, and their bond was shown to be strong.

8. Saru and Siranna

"The Sound of Thunder"

Kelpiens Saru and Siranna were devoted to each other from childhood through adulthood. Though they parted ways when Saru left Kelpinar to join Starfleet, their hearts were permanently linked.

When Saru returned to his homeworld, he helped Siranna lead their people in breaking free of their fearful natures. Siranna, in turn, came to Saru and the Discovery 's aid when it battled the sentient computer Control.

7. Worf and Kurn

"Sons of Mogh"

Worf and Kurn, the Sons of Mogh, were separated for most of their lives following the attack that killed their parents. Kurn sought out Worf, revealing their relationship during an officer exchange aboard the Enterprise . Kurn was loyal to his brother and their family, but hid his heritage during his brother’s discommendation.

During the Dominion War, Kurn also faced dishonor. Worf helped Kurn assume a new identity to regain honor in the empire.

6. The Duras Sisters

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Lursa and B’Etor were the devious sisters of Duras. Their family held great honor within the Klingon Empire until the treachery of their father Ja’rod and brother Duras came to light as well as their own conspiring with the Romulan Sela. They had successfully instigated a Klingon civil war and were responsible for the destruction of the Enterprise before dying in the same battle.

5. Jim and Sam Kirk

"Lost in Translation"

Growing up in Iowa, both James Tiberius Kirk and his brother George Samuel "Sam" Kirk saw their futures in the stars. Jim, of course, became one of the greatest starship captains in Starfleet history. Sam became a celebrated scientist.

Long before James would take command of the Enterprise , Sam Kirk served aboard the flagship under Captain Pike as his younger brother was rising the ranks aboard the Farragut. While their relationship often had hurdles, as Sam felt their father favored Jim's career, specifically achieving the title of youngest first officer in all of Starfleet, as it modeled his own career while the elder brother pursued a path in sciences. No matter the timeline, there was never shortage of love, support, and old-fashioned sibling ribbing.

4. Michael Burnham and Spock

"If Memory Serves"

Having been rescued by the Vulcan Sarek and his human wife Amanda Grayson, Michael Burnham was raised alongside Sarek and Amanda's son Spock. The foster siblings faced a strained relationship at times, but when Michael was missing, Spock searched for her with the help of the Red Angel.

Michael returned the favor years later, leading the search for Spock when he disappeared and was accused of murder. Spock credited Michael with helping him become the man he did, and Michael was moved and proud when she travelled to the future and learned of Spock's legendary life.

3. Quark and Rom

"Family Business"

On the surface, it appeared that Quark and Rom didn’t like each other very much, but the truth was few brothers loved each other as much as this Ferengi pair did. Quark often berated and manipulated Rom, but Rom always stood by his brother in his times of need. Quark also unfailingly helped his brother during crises, even breaking him out of a holding cell to prevent his execution by the Dominion. When Quark learned Rom was being named Grand Nagus, he was initially jealous but also expressed how much he truly loved his brother.

2. Jean-Luc and Robert Picard

"Family"

As boys, Robert and Jean-Luc Picard bickered and battled constantly. The older brother, Robert, enjoyed bullying Jean-Luc. It wasn’t until Jean-Luc's return to the family vineyard following his assimilation by the Borg and subsequent rescue that the two brothers settled their decades-long rivalry.

Four years later, Jean-Luc was devastated to learn Robert and Robert’s son René had been killed in a fire at the vineyard.

1. The Soong Androids and Altan Inigo Soong

"Datalore"

[ RELATED : Android Ancestry: Examining the Soong-Type Line ]

Dr. Noonien Soong had a large family. Of his four sons, three were androids and one was human. The androids Data, Lore, and B-4 had challenging and complex relationships with each other. Data long believed he was inferior to Lore while Lore was jealous of their father’s pride in Data. Meanwhile, B-4 was used to lure Data and Picard into a Romulan trap. Data tried helping B-4 improve, but his programming was insufficient, despite Data giving B-4 his memory engrams.

Their human brother, Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, helped use some of those engrams to reconstitute Data in a simulation after the android’s death as well as using them to create numerous new pairs of synthetic twins. Altogether, they were, as Data described them, "An acquired taste." Most siblings are.

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Krem was a Ferengi pirate in the 22nd century and the cousin of Ulis , who looked down on him and often ordered him about.

In 2151 , Krem and his gang of thieves, led by Ulis, rendered the entire crew of Enterprise NX-01 unconscious with a "Trojan Horse" device disguised as an ancient artifact. With the crew no longer a threat, Krem and the other Ferengi boarded the vessel and began looting Enterprise . Unknown to them, however, Trip Tucker was not affected by their device and was able to revive T'Pol .

After Captain Archer was awakened and questioned for the location of a vault which the ship did not have, Ulis ordered Krem to guard him while continuing to load heavy items off the Enterprise and onto his ship. Krem, tired of always being ordered to do menial labor, forced the captain to do his work. As the two conversed, Archer was able to convince Krem that Ulis was not treating him fairly. When Ulis ordered Krem to continue guarding Archer while Tucker, who had been caught by the pirates, lead them to the captain's vault, Krem attempted to stand up to his cousin, but could not follow through.

After being incapacitated by T'Pol with a Vulcan nerve pinch and having the rest of his compatriots captured, Krem was allowed to leave, commanding the ship once captained by Ulis. Before departing, he was warned by Archer that Starfleet Command and the Vulcan High Command would have his ship's design in their database, so they would know if he and his crew decided to start more trouble. Krem assured the captain that they would not return. He then piloted the ship away from Enterprise , ignoring the demands and pleas made by his restrained cousin and cohorts. ( ENT : " Acquisition ")

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Star trek: discovery reveals another iconic ds9 connection.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal" reveals that Nog isn't the only Ferengi to make a positive impact on Starfleet in the 32nd century.

WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery season 4, episode 3, "Jinaal".

• "Jinaal" has multiple DS9 references from the Trill zhian'tara ritual to a Ferengi bartender.
• A Ferengi officer in USS Discovery's bar references Quark from DS9.
• Discovery's USS Nog is a tribute to actor Aron Eisenberg. Alex Kurtzman hopes it will continue Nog's legacy.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal" returns to Trill, but that's not the episode's only big connection to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In "Jinaal", Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) participates in a Trill zhian'tara ritual, embodying Jinaal Bix to lead Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) to the next clue in their treasure hunt. This ritual first took place in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3, episode 25, "Facets", in which Lt. Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) conducts the ceremony, to meet the previous Dax hosts.

Interestingly, the subplot of "Facets" is about Nog (Aron Eisenberg) applying to Starfleet Academy, and a Ferengi Starfleet officer features in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3 , "Jinaal" too. However, while the Ferengi officer serving aboard the USS Discovery wears the same gold uniform as Ensign Nog in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , he shares more in common with Nog's uncle, Quark (Armin Shimerman). In the closing scenes of "Jinaal", the Discovery crew unwind in the ship's lounge bar, where they're served drinks by a Ferengi bartender .

Every DS9 Alien In Star Trek: Discovery

Star trek: discovery has its own ferengi bartender like ds9’s quark.

Star Trek: Discovery 's starship bar features in the closing scenes of "Jinaal", and it's revealed that it counts a Ferengi officer among its staff. This is notable for two reasons, the first being that Star Trek 's starship bars are generally run by civilians like Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) or Honus (Anthony Atamanuik) from Star Trek: Lower Decks . It's interesting that the USS Discovery has a serving officer behind the bar, though given the Ferengis' talents for hospitality, it might not be surprising that this particular Ferengi has chosen to serve as entertainment officer .

Commander Rayner looks like he could use the sympathetic lobes of a Ferengi bartender to share his troubles with.

Star Trek: Discovery 's Ferengi bartender is also a direct reference to Quark's Bar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . While they're not the first Ferengi that viewers have seen in Star Trek: Discovery 's 32nd century, the ship's new bartender is the character that most clearly links back to Quark in DS9 . Sadly, the Ferengi bartender plays a non-speaking role , meaning that there's no sense of how the character stacks up with Quark and his DS9 family. This must be particularly disappointing for Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie), who looks like he could use the sympathetic lobes of a Ferengi bartender to share his troubles with.

Ferengi In Starfleet Was Set Up By Star Trek: DS9 & Lower Decks

It was Nog's decision to join Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that paved the way for more Ferengi in Starfleet . While there haven't been any named Ferengi officers in Star Trek shows set after DS9 , there has been at least one starship captain glimpsed in Star Trek: Discovery . Another 32nd century Ferengi was seen to follow Nog into Starfleet Academy in Discovery 's season 4 premiere. Nog's admission and exceptional service during DS9 's Dominion War paved the way for more Ferengi to become Starfleet officers, from the 24th century all the way to the 32nd.

Ronald D. Moore praised the decision to have Nog apply to Starfleet Academy in the book Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages saying: " Somehow, Captain Nog sounds cool "

Nog's father, Grand Nagus Rom (Max Grodénchik) made further strides in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, when he negotiated for Ferenginar's entry into the Federation. By the time of Star Trek: Picard 's season 2 premiere, the flag of Ferenginar was glimpsed behind Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) as he delivered a speech to the newest graduates from Starfleet Academy. Ferenginar becoming a member of the Federation made it much easier for Ferengi to follow the example of Nog by pursuing a career in Starfleet .

Star Trek: Discovery Honored DS9’s Nog

As well as the Ferengi officers glimpsed in the 32nd century, Star Trek: Discovery has honored Nog in other ways, too. One of the ships in Starfleet's 32nd century armada is the USS Nog, which performed heroically during the evacuation of Earth in Discovery 's season 4 finale . The captain of the USS Nog held out under the extreme pressures caused by the Dark Matter Anomaly's debris field in order to meet their maximum passenger capacity. It was a heroic act that more than honored the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Ensign Nog.

The USS Nog is an Eisenberg-class starship, named for the late Aron Eisenberg. This fact was confirmed by Star Trek: Discovery 's co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman (via TrekCore ) who hoped to " see more of the USS Nog as it helps Starfleet build a brighter future. " There's no more fitting a tribute to the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Aron Eisenberg, and the beloved character of Nog than that.

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Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.