Object

Ferengi Vessel

A compact, hard-edged Ferengi warship bristling with forward missile launchers and sensor arrays, powering aggressively toward the wormhole. Hull plating gleams with tacky Ferengi insignia; missile bays open as the craft accelerates. Bridge crew on the Enterprise react to its approach with alarm — Worf reports its bearing, Picard orders Yellow Alert, and the vessel's fired torpedo forces immediate defensive phaser action. The ship behaves as an active, deliberate threat: mobile, armed, and intent on provocation.

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Purpose

To pursue, blockade, and engage opposing starships using advanced beam and projectile weaponry in order to enforce Ferengi tactical objectives.

Significance

Functions narratively as a manufactured provocation that escalates diplomatic stakes: its missile launch catalyzes a tactical emergency, exposes the Chrysalian gambit when Troi unmasks the staged crisis, and converts political theater into an urgent, potentially catastrophic confrontation.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E8 · The Price

Red Alert Gambit — Devinoni Reframes the Crisis

The Ferengi missile vessel (and by extension the missile it fired) is cited as the tangible catalyst for the Red Alert. Its aggression creates the operational emergency and supplies the political narrative Devinoni weaponizes; the vessel's action converts diplomatic negotiation into crisis management.

Before: Positioned in Ferengi-controlled space, preparing or approaching the wormhole with offensive posture.

After: Has fired on the wormhole, provoking Enterprise defensive posture and raising immediate tactical/ political stakes (actual damage not described in the scene).

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