![]() ( DS9: " Family Business", " The Magnificent Ferengi", " Ferengi Love Songs") The FCA has the power to remove a Grand Nagus from office, though only in the rare circumstances that it is overwhelmingly obvious he has become medically or mentally unfit for the role (i.e. After doing so, their petition was summarized by the First Clerk before the Nagus reached a decision. In doing so, they were required to pay their respects, literally (in a slip of gold-pressed latinum). ![]() Petitioners regularly sought to speak to the Nagus to solicit advice on business ventures and decisions. The Nagus's offices were located in the Tower of Commerce on Ferenginar, where he presided over the Alliance from the Chamber of Opportunity. ( DS9: " Prophet Motive") Virtually all decisions that affected the Alliance required the approval of the Grand Nagus, whose power was backed by the Ferengi Bill of Opportunities and supported by the Board of Liquidators. At which point it erupts, violently.The Grand Nagus was the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, and the financial leader of billions of Ferengi. however, the contradictions (like women feeling unfulfilled) will build up seemingly unnoticed until it is unavoidable. The practicality was that there were women who wanted to do it and are now capable as they are allowed to study theology and are looking for paid work where they can find it, but the prevailing ideas were behind this, that women shouldn't teach men in the matters of God.įor these reasons, my criticism of idealism aside, it's actually fairly believable that their prejudice towards female members of the species could continue despite its incompatibility. Again, we see how the Anglican community was split on women being clergy. ![]() Simultaneously it was seen that women should stay at home and raise the family as it's her "role", but that in reality, working class women were still doing, and always had to do, paid labour to survive. As a result, a society's capabilities inevitably outstrip its ideas that end up holding it back. These are completely disconnected from the prevailing ideas pushed by those who control society and benefit from it staying still, such as religions and monarchies. Social needs are what drive innovation, and as soon as these needs are met, new ones arrive. So there are outlets for unusual and exceptional Klingons that the Ferengi simply do not replicate in their own culture.Īs such, Ishka's only recourses are to either concede fully to the rules that exist, or to break them. Moreover, there appears to be zero bar to Klingon women becoming warriors and earning social prestige in Klingon society. And while other cultures, like the Klingons, have similar rules in place that formally bar women from acquiring and maintaining power, it's apparent in the very same Ferengi episodes that the Klingons have a certain latitude and flexibility in how they approach those rules, and allow for exceptional cases. If Ferengi women start earning profit, that is but a hop, skip and jump from Ferengi women demanding political power, power that is currently consolidated exclusively among men. ![]() They are made to reinforce existing power structures. So presumably, she can study and write fanfic and stuff, so long as she doesn't profit off it.īut herein lies both the central dramatic tension and the underlying sociological critique that the writers have embedded within the Ferengi episodes: cultural tenets are not made to make sense. I don't know that Ferengi females were barred from reading it's specifically mentioned that it's Ishka who taught Quark and Rom their Rules of Acquisition.
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