False Profits story
The crew encounters the Delta Quadrant terminus of the Barzan wormhole...and the two Ferengi from "The Price" now posing as gods on a nearby planet. Directed by: Cliff Bole. Story by: George Brozak.
10 total · 3 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| exploitation of sentient beings | choice | Arridor and Kol exploit a Bronze Age people for economic gain |
| greed for riches | choice | Arridor and Kol exploited a Bronze Age people for economic gain. |
| religion as a control mechanism | choice | Arridor and Kol use religion as a means of exploiting a lesser advanced people |
| criminal fraud | major | Arridor and Kol fraudulent claim to be the Holy Sages prophesied in Takarian sacred scripture |
| primitive point of view | major | The viewer is made to see the world through the eyes of a Bronze Age people |
| religious prophesy | major | Arridor and Kol fraudulent claim to be the Holy Sages prophesied in Takarian sacred scripture. |
| science as magic to the primitive | major | Arridor and Kol use advanced technology to trick a Bronze Age people into thinking them gods |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | major | Captain Janeway argued she had the authority to depose Arridor and Kol from their seat of power on the Takarian homeworld, because the Federation was responsible for the cultural contamination caused by their arrival |
| matter replicator | minor | Arridor and Kol proliferated matter replicator technology on the Takarian homeworld |
| traversable wormhole | minor | Arridor and Kol traveled through a wormhole to reach the Takarian homeworld |