Wherein the issue opens with D'Vana Tendi having a perfect day, but it suddenly turns into a nightmare as a giant Ferengi head chased her and she wakes up to reality. Someone keeps sending her messages, which is annoying.
Turns out Tendi got into some financial loans trouble with a Ferengi who loaned her money to get a flight to Earth so she could attend starfleet. And now that Ferengi has come... to collect! Dun, dun, dun!
So... they do student loans in the future? Is the first thing I thought when I started this issue, followed by but Earth and Starfleet are post-scarcity and don’t use money. But apparently the daughter of a major Orion Syndicate family doesn’t know that, I mean she’s a pirate queen, we’ve seen her be a far smarter person on screen yet now for the sake of plot she, the pirate queen, was swindled by a Ferengi? I’m sorry that’s just weak. Plus they have computers on Orion she could have easily looked all of that up and found Glom lying. So you’re telling me The Mistress of the Winter Winds, who’s smart enough to be accepted into Starfleet, is dumb enough to not only be swindled by a Ferengi, but apparently so naive that she wouldn’t even research the Ferengi’s claims.
It’s an okay story, sure, but why assassinate her character just for laughs for a Ferengi plot? I feel like Tendi deserves better than this, and the writers owe Armin Shimerman an apology.
“Or running naked through the halls flinging Gormagander poo screaming ‘unclean! Unclean!’?” 6.5/10