@maple @noelle it also acknowledges that the ferengi started out squarely in that space jew trope, and then grew out of it, yeah?

so if you go "ah jeez, space jews eh?" at seeing them - particularly in the early seasons of ds9, or as they appeared in tng, which was far less nuanced with them - you're not, as the claim is, being antisemitic by making the connection. you're recognizing what was, at that point, laid down.