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フェレンギとは一体どんな種族か?エンタープライズのエネルギーはどうなる?


登場人物

Jean-Luc Picard:エンタープライズD艦長
William T. Riker:副長(「副長」は英語でnumber oneだそうです)
Deanna Troi:カウンセラー(テレパスで、ライカーの元恋人)
Data:アンドロイド(科学主任で第二副長)
Tasha Yar:セキュリティー・チーフ
Worf:セキュリティー、副チーフ(後のシーズンで主任になります)
Geordi La Forge:技術チーフ(「機関部長」とも。恋多き青年です^^;)


P: Are you searching all frequencies? Has any sign of any message?
Wo: Negative, sir.
P: Weapons report, Lieutenant.
Ta: I have phasers and torpedoes armed but I show insufficient power to fire them.
P: Engineering, give me status on power recovery. Engineering, come in. Why aren't they answering? La Forge.
Ge: Sir?
P: Get a full report from engineering.
Ge: Aye, sir.
R: It's impossible that they could drain all power from all systems.
P: Counselor.
De: I'm sensing nothing from them, sir. Which could mean they can shield their thoughts and emotions from others.
P: Still make it our move.
De: Sir, they may know a little about us as we do about them.
R: Except that they know they've got us in deep trouble.
P: If so, and the question becomes what they will do without that knowledge. Data, do you have any information touching on this, any file?
Da: None, sir. Only hearsay and thirdhand reports most of which conflict.
R: Which reports do not conflict?
Da: That the Ferengi are ... Well, the best description may be "traders."
P: What kind of traders?
Da: A comparison modern scholars has drawn from earth history likens the Frengi to the ocean-going yankee traders of 18th and 19th century America, sir.
R: From the history my forebear's yankee traders.
Da: In this case sail the galaxy in search of mercantile and territorial opportunity.
R: Are these scholars saying the Ferengi may not be unlike us?
Da: Hardly, sir. I believe the analogy refers to the worst quality of capitalists. The Ferengi are believed to conduct affairs of commerce on the ancient principle, caveat emptor "let the buyer beware".
R: Yankee traders, I like the sound of that.
Da: No, sir. I doubt they wear red, white and blue or look anything like Uncle Sam.
P: Engineering? Join La Forge down below the engineering, Number one.
R: Aye, sir
P: Without warp capacity we're just a floating target.
Wo: Uncle who?
Ta: What a bright primary color's got to do with it.
P: Ah, I understand the allusion. Colors representing countries at that time when they competed with each other. Red, white and blue for the United States, whereas the French more properly use the same colors in the order of blue, white and red.
Da: And the German nation red, black and gold. The Italians green, white and red. The British...
P: That's enough Data.
Da: It was you who...
P: We were discussing the Ferengi. I wish I had some clues to what they will do next.
Da: Given what is now happening to our ship, sir, their weapons could be vastly superior to ours.
P: Yes, Data. That is a natural assumption. Engineering!

By KITORA

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フェレンギはヤンキー・トレイダーと比べられてますね。買い手側責任。売りっぱなし商売。 う〜ん、余り関わりたくない種族かも。