Editing Ferengi (section)

===''Star Trek: The Next Generation''===

While preparing scripts for the first season of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', the idea of the Ferengi was devised by [[Gene Roddenberry]] and [[Herbert Wright (producer)|Herbert Wright]].{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}} The new alien species initially appeared in the first season's fourth episode, "[[The Last Outpost (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Last Outpost]]", which was based on a story by Richard Krzemien and a teleplay by Wright.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=37}} In this story, the [[USS Enterprise-D|USS ''Enterprise''-D]]—whose crew are the main protagonists of the series—makes first contact with the Ferengi while pursuing one of their vessels, which has stolen a T-9 energy converter. Both ships are immobilized over an unknown planet, leading both to send away parties to investigate, where they encounter each other.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|pp=37–38}} One of the actors who played a Ferengi in "The Last Outpost", [[Armin Shimerman]], would go on to play a Ferengi again in the later episode "Peak Performance" before being cast as the Ferengi bartender Quark in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}}

[[File:Logo Ferengi.svg|thumb|left|The Ferengi insignia designed for "The Last Outpost" by Okuda]]

The Ferengi outfits designed for "The Last Outpost" featured fur wrap-arounds.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}} As weapons, they were given blue [[whip]]s that fired energy bolts when cracked; these were subsequently dropped from the series and not used in later depictions of the species.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}} [[Michael Okuda|Mike Okuda]] designed the Ferengi insignia to present the idea of "[[wikt:dog eat dog|dog eat dog]]". It was colored green because of that color's associations with greed, envy, and money.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}} The Ferengi ship featured in the episode was designed by [[Andy Probert]], who used a [[horseshoe crab]] on Wright's desk as inspiration, with the model then being constructed by [[Greg Jein]].{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=38}}

The Ferengi were reused for the season's ninth episode, "[[The Battle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Battle]]", based on a story by Larry Forrester that Wright converted into a teleplay.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|pp=40–41}} This episode was first aired in November 1987.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=40}} In it, a Ferengi called DaiMon Bok gives the ''Enterprise'' Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] ([[Patrick Stewart]]) the derelict ship that the latter once captained, the ''Stargazer''. Over the course of the episode, it is revealed that this is part of Bok's plan for vengeance, for he holds Picard responsible for the death of his son many years before.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=41}} Forrester's first plot outline had featured various scenes aboard the Ferengi spaceship, but these did not make it into the episode.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=41}} Series writer [[Rick Berman]] later noted that because of their "silliness quotient", the Ferengi became "a disappointment as a major adversary".{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=41}}

For the second-season episode "[[Peak Performance (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Peak Performance]]", written by David Kemper and directed by Robert Scheerer, the ''Enterprise'' is depicted encountering a hostile Ferengi ship while engaging in a practice exercise.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=91}} The Ferengi uniform was revised for this episode, and new collar pips were added to designate their differing ranks.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=92}} The season three episode "[[The Price (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Price]]", which was written by Hannah Louise Shearer, directed by Robert Scheerer, and first aired in November 1989, also included Ferengi characters. In it, two Ferengi delegates compete against their Federation counterparts to gain access to a newly discovered stable [[wormhole]]; later in the episode, it is revealed that the wormhole was not really stable and the Ferengi get stuck on the other side of it, in a distant part of the galaxy.{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|pp=107–108}} "The Price" is the first episode in which a Ferengi starship was referred to as a "marauder".{{sfn|Nemecek|1995|p=108}}