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Enterprise that is, last season they had an episode with the Ferengi, and it ended with Archer telling them that if they ever showed their faces again it would be a short and deadly (for them) confrontation. the Ferengi left frightened and beaten (with the little guy in charge of his cousins ship).

This episode bothered me and alot of trekkies on this and other boards, that is it bothered me until last night, when RevRuby and I watched "Encounter at Farpoint" the pilot episode of ST:TNG (i got the first season as an early x-mas present) where the Ferengi were mentioned and there was no hint of curiosity a to what this strange race was that hadn't been seen in the trek universe yet. to me this means that things are fine and I'm not in the least put off by Enterprise, they merely made the contact with the Ferengi before they were widely known in the treck universe, but the data from tehir voyage apparently survived as Pickard knew what they were.