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BOOK
Legends of the Ferengi
Attribution

Series:	Deep Space Nine
Author(s):	Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Publication information
Published:	Paperback - August 1997
ISBN:	ISBN 0671007289

Quark recounts famous tales of the Ferengi that inspired the Rules of Acquisition.

Introduction

From the back cover: For centuries these and the other famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high cost in lives and latinum.

Now at last these inspiring tales of avaricious Ferengi wresting monetary gain from the jaws of poverty are available to the profit-hungry across the galaxy!

References

Characters

Ira Steven Behr • Blemin • Blork • Brolok • Derval • Ding • Dirf, son of Dorf • Drik • Frek • Flynk • Frinx • Gaila • Gint • Gormie Gormatop • Greb • Greko • Ishka • Iskel • Jubbletta • Keldar • Kono • Logi • Lonz • "Mad Zook" • "Masked Breen" • Milch • Meelo • Morn • Nog • Obe • Oblat • Oblix • Pino • Posk • Quark • Rauplop • Rom • Shmun • Benjamin Sisko • Sluggo • Smeet the Oblivious • Squeeb • Stoonk • Stumpy Strope • T'lana • Twim • Untz the Invisible • Ving • Vinx • Voshma the Voluptuous • Vurp • Robert Hewitt Wolfe • Yinkee the Shrewd • Yomgro • Yost • Zek

Locations

Bowog Bog • Bowog Dam • Blopfep Wilds • California • Cardassia • Chimera Pi • Cruluss Prime • Deep Space 9 • Earth • Ferenginar • Glunge • Korpa • Lytasia • Mount Tubatuba • Noi • North American Administrative District • Pike Hall • Promenade • Quark's • Rangahorn • Risa • Romulus • Rough Landing • San Francisco • Sector 001 • Shploonish • Skimmer Interchange 405 • Stairs of Gilfoyle • Tholis • Tower of Commerce • Vorp Memorial • West Wormwood • Wohoken

Species

Bajoran • Betazoid • Bolian • Breen • Cruller • Ferengi • Gree • Human • Hupyrian • Jem'Hadar • Klingon • Lytasian • Nausicaan • Orion • Romulan • Tholian • Vulcan

States and Organizations

Bajoran War Orphans Fund • Daystrom Institute • Emergency Medical Services, Inc. • Ferengi Alliance • Ferengi Commerce Authority • Ferengi Commodities Exchange • Ferengi Desiccated Collectibles Market • Ferengi Morale Office • Ferengi Office of Population Control • Ferengi Skimmerway Construction Department • Ferengi Wellness Institute • Haryalevard Academy of Business Management • Hopawup Academy for Young Lobelings • Hupyrian Friendship Brigade • Hupyrian People's Unity Front • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • United Federation of Planets

Other

The Arduous Journey of T'lana on the Road to Enlightenment • audiobook • autopilot • attainment ceremony • Bajoran language • betting pool • Bible • Blessed Exchequer • bogeyman • Bowog flood • burial • Celestial Auctioneer • chroniton • chief liquidator • Chiggerburger • dabo • DaiMon • desiccation disk • duridium • dextramethametroheblezine • diskmonger • Divine Treasury • dom-jot • earthquake • Econosolipsistic mathematics • Fafa • Ferengi Acquirer • Ferengi language • Ferengi-Lytasian conflict • Ferengi religion • The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • first contact • frinx • funeral • Glorpober • Gooblatrupyob • Golden Age of Silly Bwah-hah-hahs • Golden Lobe • gouge mining • Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance • Guardian of Forever • Guarding Your Investment: Keeping Your Children Profitable • headskirt • "Hew-mon" • holodocumentary • holonovel • horror story • Hooyup tree • Human language • Hupyrian beetle snuff • icoberry • ideogram • investment broker • Keeper of the Dishonored Dead • Klang the Incontinent Klingon • legacy chest • latinum • Legends of the Ferengi (audiobook) • Legends of the Ferengi (book) • liquidator • lobe • Marauder Mo • milliyop • missive • Moogie • Nameless Traitor • Never Ask When You Can Take • oo-mox • Peldor Festival • peldor joi • plasma storm • pregnancy • Privateer of the Swampways • professor • profit • pumice • religion • Sacred Auction • Sacred Illuminated balance sheet • Sinus • Stone of Deaver • subliminal message • Swamp King • Swamp King at Sunset • The Three Stooges • Shlork the Stuttering Vulcan • Smiling Partner • temporal dynamic • Tholian silk • time travel • tongo • vole merchant • Vulcan Love Slave • The Wind in My Ears • womb rental agreement

Technology

combadge • holosuite • phaser • plasma whip • replicator • skimmer • tooth sharpener • warp drive • waste extraction

Fauna

albino fangcat • fire spider • gree-worm • Misian bogfly • Tellurian gnat • timber weevil • tube grub • vole • wooly slug

Foods and beverages

black hole • bloodwine • Eelwasser • flaming nova • Slug-o-Cola • slug steak • snail juice • snail steak • wormwine

Information

• Legends of the Ferengi features image stills from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager episodes.
• The audiobook of this book was narrated by Armin Shimerman. The other Ferengi were voiced by John Beach and Tom Reedy.
• Several elements from this book would later be incorporated into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's on-screen canon. For example, the Lytasians would be mentioned in "The Magnificent Ferengi", Slug-o-Cola and Eelwasser would be mentioned in "Profit and Lace", and Vulcan Love Slave and its characters T'lana and Shmun would be mentioned in "The Emperor's New Cloak".
• Several elements from Legends of the Ferengi, such as the "Smiling Partner", would be mentioned in the Millennium miniseries.
• The advertising jingles for Slug-o-Cola and Eelwasser would later be included in the CD-ROM edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

Connections

• Legends of the Ferengi article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.