this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
192 points (96.6% liked)

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

4672 readers
705 users here now

/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!

Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.

~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.

~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.

~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.

~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.

~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.

~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.

~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'

~ 8. No Political Upheaval. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.

Fun will now commence.


Sister Communities:

!startrek@lemmy.world

!memes@lemmy.world

!tumblr@lemmy.world

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!


Creator Resources:

Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)

Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Was just about to post the text from the episode before your edit. So it was a bargained extortion.

edit: here it is anyway

SISKO: Maybe I don't know much about Ferengi culture but I do know who holds the lease on your bar.

QUARK: The Federation. And I couldn't ask for better landlords.

SISKO: That's because we don't ask you to pay your rent, or to reimburse us for your maintenance repairs, or the drain on the station's power supply.

QUARK: You're a very generous people.

SISKO: Until today. Let's see. Five years of back rent, plus power consumption, plus the repairs. Do you know how much latinum that is?

QUARK: A lot.

I mean, in a situation where one party is being extremely generous and the other is operating in bad faith, it’s an appropriate response.

Or, through the Federation lens: Sisko simply met Quark on his cultural level.