“Ferengi Love Songs” is another sitcom-style effort in Trek, but it is saved from being terribly embarrassing by featuring Quark’s family.Quark is depressed about his lowly lot I life thanks to losing his business license, so he goes home to see his mother. He discovers she has not only been carrying on an affair with the Grand Nagus, but she has been supplying him with better financial advice than he could ever muster on his own. Quark’s archenemy, brut, discovers the affair and offers quark a new business license if he breaks them up. Quark does. Asa result, the economy is ruined as well the his mother’s heart is broken.
Feeling guilty, Quark admits what he has done and fixes it all. Things return to normal with Quark’s mother secretly managing the Ferengi economy.
I the B-story, Rom and Leeta decide to get married. I do not even want to think about it or blood will spurt out of my nose.
“Ferengi Love Songs” is frivolous fun unlike most anything else done in Trek. A nice change of pace, but only if one is partial to the tone of Ferengi-centric stories.
Rating: *** (out of 5)
