that guy wrote:

I know, I know; I'm not supposed to think about any of that--I should just "enjoy" the comedy--but what's the point of using the Ferengi society as a quasi-allegory of progress if it can't be taken remotely seriously--and if we can't care in the slightest what happens to them? For all I care, their whole planet could be laid to waste by the Dominion next week. I probably wouldn't bat an eye.