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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 604792" data-attributes="member: 8863">Yeah, that episode was funny (and it brought back the Ferengi energy whips), but it was very inconsistant.  The Ferengi were supposed to be a relatively new race to the Federation in TNG.That depends on what happens in the 100-odd years between Enterprise and those movies.  There's always external threats and such that might convince these races to work together (like Suliban, Romulans, Klingons, etc.).   Or perhaps these planets see advantages to joining the Federation rather than going alone.  There may also be planets within Federation territory that are warp capable, yet aren't part of the Federation.  The Federation isn't a power that would conquer them like the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, etc.  They keep that sort of thing vague intentionally, so the writers don't have to worry about screwing up continuity too much... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Yeah, I got that impression from this last episode too.  The Andorians hate them.  The Arkonians don't like them either.  Hell, the Vulcans even seem to irritate humans at times, but since human values value diversity, the Vulcans are in luck.  It's probably because the Vulcans are so damn arrogant that everyone seems to hate them.The Risans don't seem to have any sort of hang-ups whatsoever.  It seems to be like Spring Break Planet or something.  The only contradiction at all to that was the old couple having dinner Hoshi briefly spoke to, which made it seem more like a resort than Party Central for the Alpha Quadrant.  Of course Risa doesn't seem like a spot that would be popular with Vulcans anyway, so maybe they haven't spent enough time there to irritate the locals. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Or maybe, taking a different angle from your kid next door analogy, the Vulcan see humans as sort of an irritating kid brother they don't want tagging along when they hang out with their friends.</blockquote>

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