I think all the people involved in the Ferengi on DS9 were at least left-of-center and in it to make fun of capitalism, kind of obviously But like Armin Shinerman is a hardcore union guy, he's served on a bunch of SAG committeeshttps://twitter.com/chibikonatsu/status/1300305412613308416 …
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The joke in Far Beyond the Stars where Quark's "real life" counterpart played by Shimerman without makeup is an outspoken socialist trying to live through the McCarthyist 1950s in the US - a role reversal from Quark's life on DS9 - was pretty clearly a meta thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I also thought that character was Jewish-coded. Like, uh, the Ferengi. ::wince::
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The Ferengi are... really cringe And yet pretty much everyone involved with their development in DS9 after Roddenberry created them was Jewish
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