Well I'm clearly not the only one to have been struck by the stereotyping. Type the words Jew and Ferengi into Google and a whole host of material on the topic - much of it is very disturbing. Some threads disturbuing for one reason or another:
This one is all about Star Trek as Nazi/Jew material and has some highly racist posts(ers) as well some of which allegedly work in Hollywood.
This one claims to be everything Ferengi and it is also disturbing
I don't like slithering down these other sites for too long but it reminds me how far HZ is generally above the slurs and how much higher the conversation resides.
I find it interesting that we are certainly not the first to postulate the anti-capitalism message being sold via the Star Trek franchise.
SDAI-Tech1
PS. I wonder if having this debate increases our geekiness ranking sufficiently. ;-)
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