Or this episode should be called “Alpha Quadrant, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?”. So Voyager while travelling 70,000 light years from Earth comes across the two Ferengi last seen in a TNG episode. Plus there’s the chance of them all getting back home (Spoiler: they don’t).
So instead of just beaming the Ferengi aboard (which they do and then put them back) because it might affect the planet, they then set about an elaborate scheme to have them leave and have the population happy. Does no-one else think they should just beam them aboard and warp the hell out of there? It’s not the like the planet could be any more screwed now is it?
Considering this is a Ferengi comedy story it’s a quite dark in places. It veers from the vaudeville of Neelix pretending to be the Grand Nagus’ Proxy and how are the two Ferengi going to get out of that? Oh wait, they’ll kill him. Plus the population of the planet get quite violent towards the end, but who can blame them really.
While I’ll give you this is a silly episode, I actually quite like it, it kept me mildly amused. Don’t worry I’m sure next episode Janeway’ll be back to being a ‘by the book’ Captain. When it suits of course.
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