star trek factoid

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

A Fistful of Datas (ST:TNG season 6, episode 8)

Lieutenant Worf: Where are we?

Alexander Rozhenko: Deadwood. 19th century Earth - the Ancient West.

Lieutenant Worf: What is our function here?

HAVE I GOT SOME FRIEND SHAPED FRIENDS FOR YOU!!!

Golden Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus luteovirens), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, endemic to the Fiji Islands

Photograph by Dubi Shapiro

Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor), male, family Columbidae, endemic to Fiji

photograph by Chris Venetz & Chris Wiley

Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu), male, family Columbidae, found in Malaysia and Indonesia

Photograph by @wendytpb

Cloven-feathered Dove (Drepanoptila holosericea), family Columbidae, New Caledonia

photograph by JJ Harrison

White-breasted Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus rivoli), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Papua New Guinea

photograph by Trevor Hardaker

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

photo: Irawan Subingar

Wompoo Fruit-Dove (Megaloprepia magnifica), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, QLD, Australia

Photograph by Jun Jose

Wompoo Fruit-Dove (Megaloprepia magnifica), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, QLD, Australia

Photograph by Jun Jose

Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon (Treron fulvicollis), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Singapore

photograph by Hong Yijun

Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea and nearby islands

Ferengi dramas where the newborn is purchased by the jealous ex-business partner, only because said ex-partner has become ridiculously good at business and out-competed the sympathetic yet ineffectual bio parents of the baby. So the main character grows up and learns to be a total overpowered financial shark from their bio family's rival, only to turn the tables as they come of age, out-compete the bad guy, and then find out at the end that their bio dad actually WAS great at business all along and anticipated the whole thing and now they can merge their financial interests to be a family again (because actually making the main character's bio family bad at business would be controversial, like actually making the main character's bio family evil in a Disney film).

Imagine this being such a common Ferengi media trope that even the subversions are kind of classic tropes too, like plot twist the baby actually was secretly the bio kid of the ex-partner the whole time, yeah yeah we've all seen that one a million times, or the ex-partner is actually inept at business but just came into a sudden financial windfall so now the kid has to Cinderella their way up from being the impoverished indentured servant of a fiscally incompetent villain to ruling the business world, or the contract to buy the baby wasn't properly filled out so the main character gets to triumphantly sue the pants off of their abuser and get him as an indentured servant to pay off the back debt to them, etc etc.