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So about that Ferengi in the episode "Surface Tension"...

lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Ten Forward
I think that's the mission name. Anyways...


I swore at the time I saw him that he was the comedy relief guy. He asks who owns the sphere, then offers a ton of money to transform it into a resort....
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"

"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    That needs to be the next fleet holding. We need a new fleet holding.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    ......the what? :confused:
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,474 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    That's Ferengi society for you. Everything belongs to someone, and if they're not using it to make a profit, perhaps they'd be willing to sell to someone who will...
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lonnehart wrote: »
    I think that's the mission name. Anyways...


    I swore at the time I saw him that he was the comedy relief guy. He asks who owns the sphere, then offers a ton of money to transform it into a resort....

    That guy's a numbskull. He wants to start a VACATION RESORT in a structure in ENEMY SPACE that STILL HAS MASSIVE DAMAGE FROM A RECENT ENEMY ATTACK that is likely CONTROLLED BY AN EVEN BIGGER ENEMY.

    Biggest waste of latinum EVER. Must be from Brunt Industries...
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Ah, but if it's still full of damage and enemies, then the purchase price may be at an all-time low! A structure with as much living space as a million planets doesn't come cheap you know.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lilchibiclari wrote: »
    Ah, but if it's still full of damage and enemies, then the purchase price may be at an all-time low! A structure with as much living space as a million planets doesn't come cheap you know.

    ...dude, that's like the ULTIMATE fixer-upper.

    Better to let the military types bash the Undine and Iconians for the thing, then realize that they have no clue at all of what to do with it. You still get it cheap, and this way there's no heavily-armed nasties shooting your resort to bits every 2 days.
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    ...dude, that's like the ULTIMATE fixer-upper.

    Better to let the military types bash the Undine and Iconians for the thing, then realize that they have no clue at all of what to do with it. You still get it cheap, and this way there's no heavily-armed nasties shooting your resort to bits every 2 days.

    So that Ferengi is less of a numbskull and more of a crazy fox?

    Then again there's that station with the creepy computer core levels haunted by brain energy eating beings and a crazy holoemitter...
    *sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"

    "Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lonnehart wrote: »
    So that Ferengi is less of a numbskull and more of a crazy fox?

    Then again there's that station with the creepy computer core levels haunted by brain energy eating beings and a crazy holoemitter...

    No, he's an idiot.

    A mad genius would wait until the triple alliance had beaten the snot out of the Undine and Iconians, and come up to them with a proposal just as they caught their breath long enough to say "OK, now what the f*ck do we do with this solar-system sized mass of inhabitable space?"

    And yeah, Drozana makes the Ferengi look bad.
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Bad? They're making hundreds of bars in profit every day on that station!
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lilchibiclari wrote: »
    Bad? They're making hundreds of bars in profit every day on that station!

    ...not if people start talking about those ghosts that kill people, they're not.
  • aeonthehermitaeonthehermit Member Posts: 218 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    ...not if people start talking about those ghosts that kill people, they're not.

    Ah, but then you start selling holos of wannabe ghost hunters descending to the service decks and trying to hunt down ghosts.

    ..... OK, that came Waay to Easily to me for being a human.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    That guy's a numbskull. He wants to start a VACATION RESORT in a structure in ENEMY SPACE that STILL HAS MASSIVE DAMAGE FROM A RECENT ENEMY ATTACK that is likely CONTROLLED BY AN EVEN BIGGER ENEMY.

    Biggest waste of latinum EVER. Must be from Brunt Industries...

    wouldnt matter anyways, the jenolan star was unstable.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,675 Community Moderator
    edited May 2014
    I wanted to punch that Ferengi in the face. It was a serious meeting concerning the Undine threat, and he just brushed it asside to try and BUY the Jenolan sphere for the Ferengi.
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Well, it is a solid investment. You'll have your Federation allies protecting the sphere, along with their KDF and Romulan allies. Even if the bloody thing is Ferengi, it still contains the gateway to the gateway that the Undine apparently need to get to Sol and Qo'Nos. So really, you would be more safe than on, say, Ferenginar itself. At least the Sphere is not being targeted by planet killers.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Who the hell even invited that guy? At least the Cardassian implied the Union was prepared to actually contribute to the defense of the spheres.
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  • skaroxisskaroxis Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    Who the hell even invited that guy?

    Probably Tuvok:

    "Logic dictates that a enemy is likely to strike at this high level meeting, I better bring a good meatshield for when they manage to burst into the room"
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    skaroxis wrote: »
    Probably Tuvok:

    "Logic dictates that a enemy is likely to strike at this high level meeting, I better bring a good meatshield for when they manage to burst into the room"

    Thank you. Now I have coffee all over my HDTV/Computer Monitor. X_X
    *sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"

    "Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
  • quintarisquintaris Member Posts: 816 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    ...dude, that's like the ULTIMATE fixer-upper.

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  • mindshadow999mindshadow999 Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    ...dude, that's like the ULTIMATE fixer-upper.

    Better to let the military types bash the Undine and Iconians for the thing, then realize that they have no clue at all of what to do with it. You still get it cheap, and this way there's no heavily-armed nasties shooting your resort to bits every 2 days.

    I'm not sure if there's a Ferengi equivalent of "buy when there's blood in the streets"... ...but it certainly applies here. If you wait until the war is won then you might have to pay full price! You can bet that no matter how much he tried to make it sound like all the money, ever, the latinum being offered was nowhere near what the Jenolan Sphere was actually worth.

    I mean, think of it from his perspective. Three outcomes:
    1) The allies win and you got a whole Dyson sphere on the cheap. Profit!
    2) The allies stalemate. Well, now they'll have to buy weapons with both hands to support the faltering war effort. With, say, all that latinum. Who takes latinum? Ferengi merchants! ...which he'll be perfectly positioned to broker a deal with. Profit!
    3) The allies lose and the Undine kill everyone. Well, if you're going to die anyway, die with the deed to a whole Dyson Sphere in your hands. Profit!

    And in the unlikely event he actually tried renovating the thing on the spot, then you would probably want to check what's happening to the devices the renovation crew are ripping out of the walls to replace with fountains and dance poles and such. Profit!
  • captyoung01captyoung01 Member Posts: 311 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    considering that Ferengi was at the conference and as well the home planet of Ferenginar is one of the systems we have to protect. I am wondering if the Ferengi are going to get more of a spot light in STO, including Ferenginar as a system to visit. . I know where my own Ferengi toon is going if that is the case.
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    mindshadow999 wrote: »
    I'm not sure if there's a Ferengi equivalent of "buy when there's blood in the streets"... ...but it certainly applies here. If you wait until the war is won then you might have to pay full price! You can bet that no matter how much he tried to make it sound like all the money, ever, the latinum being offered was nowhere near what the Jenolan Sphere was actually worth.

    Given that it has habitable space equivalent to millions of planets, the Sphere has to be worth at least the cost of an entire sector's worth of solar systems.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    This is changing the subject a bit, but did anybody else have the Ferengi turn invisible during the cutscene? For me the request to buy the Jenolan Sphere was coming from an empty bench. :D
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