The Greediest Aliens in the Galaxy...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
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The Ferengi are one of the most thoroughly fleshed out alien species in Star Trek, with over 90 appearances in addition to Quark's regular role on Deep Space Nine. A hypercapitalist, highly patriarchal society, the Ferengi are ubiquitous throughout local space as traders and businessmen. In today's video, I examine their history, both cultural and biological as well.
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00:00 Intro
01:17 Biology
04:41 Homeworld & Star
06:57 Language
07:54 History & Culture
11:09 Space Presence
13:41 On-Screen Depictions
15:49 Final Thoughts
17:06 Outro - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
I disagree. The Ferengi are not the greediest aliens in the galaxy. The Borg are. They want everything, and they're too cheap to pay for it.
Fair
I see your point, but greed is more of a feeling or drive , possibly goal but far fetched to call it a goal.
The Borg is way different.
@@cvasirocket1401 I get that you're trying to inject nuance, but I don't see the nuance mentioned. Not saying it's not there, just not seeing it as you've described it
Jews are
Ferengi didn't even develop warp drive. They bought it :)
Which is brilliant. It's so Ferengi to do that.
But they did build the coolest ships around. I love their designs.. I would choose a ferengi runabout as my personal ship
@@joshythehand2960 Ferengi ingenuity!
I can only imagine the price negotiations.
I got to hang out in person with "Quark" one afternoon; I'm still starstruck.
the big ferengi lobes could also be an adaptation so they dont get rain in their eyes
Ferengis are one of the best parts of DS9 hands down. How often do we get to witness the cultural evolution of a species throughout any of the Star Trek series.
Its easy to only see the annoying bits of ferengi episodes but you make a great point. Their society undergoes rapid and massive changes throughout DS9! Great comment
@@ThommyofThennand their progress is all due to moogie's scheming
Gigantic Ferengi codpiece. This seems like one of those facts The Lower Decks would poke fun at.
I'm surprised you overlooked this due to the comprehensive and quality nature of your content, however the Ferengi have totally been to the Delta Quadrant! It was 24th Century, so perhaps not the first contact that gave them such a low designation, but they definitely have! Two Ferengi featured in a Next Gen episode get trapped there after a wormhole collapses, and years later the crew of Voyager encounters them on a planet they've taken over by convincing the locals they are gods :)
TNG: The Price and VOY: False Profits!
"the crew of Voyager encounters them", you mean "a rogue federation captain attempting to enforce federation law on non federation members well outside of federation territory against the best interest of her crew". I know Voyager gets a bad rep, but I actually think it gets too much hate. However this episode just boils my piss!
@@sabin97 It's billions, as a Muslim we celebrate the penultimate prophet as well as Muhammad.
@@sabin97 Islam is the worship of the Sumerian Moon God NANNAR SIN who was a son of ENLIL, the tyrannical individual who became known as Yahweh that the jews specifically worshipped after they moved on from their worship of the child sacrifice god Baal.
@@sabin97 Sorry, when you went immediately racial on me I lost interest in the rest of what you had to say. I have no patience with racists and detest them. However I did read what you wrote but you have a lot of it wrong. I can see you are writing from an elitist muslim/arabist point of view but your immediate racism has put me off discussing things further with you. I’ll leave it there.
Kicked off 109 planets...but its NEVER their fault...
Eat the bugs!
Froget where i read it but Quark's actor was one of the original Ferrangi and felt he had to redeem the race from the rather laughable portrayal he'd set them up with. And swapping from furs to waistcoats and patterned clothe helped with the character design (bring to mind that gilded age Capitalist that the ferrangi are trying to invoke) but quark as a character went a long way to giving us a portrayal now that the ferrangi had some interactions under its belt with the federation and other powers.
Then Rom and Nog. Rom showing what someone who is clearly gifted but culturally inept is like, and then grows when given another path, and Nog.... taking the best aspects of Ferrangi culture and applying them to the federation, showing just what you can get from a culture of tenacious horse traders when you expand the concept of 'profit' past latinum.
Seriously Nog was amazing and I am sad the actor is gone from us.
Nog was great. You're right about the expansion of the definition of profit for him. Very smart, very tenacious, great hearing, great combination. Be made a lot of early Jake scenes much better, I think that's why they expanded his role.
Wonder how many times Roddenberry was told "Sir this is a Wendy's"
Oh my God, it had to have been A LOT 😂. Just like when he wanted Troi to have three breasts.
@@OrangeRiver Roddenberry is not alone. Even today we now have the two dicked klingon.
why?
Ah-nold, baby!
total recall
I did find the Ferengi to be very well done as a species, DS9 was so well written and Directed it flush out all the interesting things about them ALL the different actors brought such life to them. Thanks for sharing your research on this race.
People keep saying TNG did the Ferengi dirty, but I disagree. In TNG it was how the Ferengi were seen, in DS9 it was how they really were. Had TNG done a better job with them DS9 would have been slightly more constricted in what they could do. The Ferengi was almost a blank slate, which was great.
@@Oonagh72 Agree
@@Oonagh72 There are some cringe moments especially in episodes with Quark's mom.
Overall though the Ferengi on DS9 were handled expectionally well. Brunt was always fun. Quark & Odo were fantastic. Rom & Nog has great character arcs. And getting Wallace Shawn as Zek is a treat.
Well done Humon
I don't think we should believe Quark (I think it was Quark) when he says that Ferengi didn't have slavery or commit genocide, there was an episode where Quark almost sold weapons to someone attempting to commit genocide with the help of his arms dealing cousin. I think the simplest explanation is just that Quark is a liar
today we even have to struggle against revisionist history for many reasons. Could be something similar
Well if we get into technicality (which makes sense for ferengi) quark wasn't the one commiting genocide he was just enabling it
@@ethanwall2443 Pretty much this. Their own species doesn't commit genocides. But if other species are committing it and there's profit in it for the Ferengi, they may disagree with how the merchandise will be used, but if the profit for them is big enough, they won't care too much. What the buyers do with their merchandise once they have it is none of the Ferengi's concern. If profit was made, then their goal has been achieved. The more reprehensible the act, the bigger the profit would need to be for them to justify it, but if the paycheck is big enough, they'll do it.
To further go into this, there is a conversation between Quark and... I think it was Nog, where Nog (or whoever it was) mentions that the humans used to irradiate their own planet, which seemingly horrifies both Quark and Nog. This would imply that the Ferengi may be a backstabbing, underhanded and selfserving species, but they do have limits to how cruel they are willing to be, particularly to their own kind. It's also possible that they realize that there is no long term profit to be made from people who are about to die of radiation poisoning and if it's bad enough to affect their entire planet and potentially wipe out their entire species, well... you can't make profit if you're dead is one of their rules of acquisition, if I'm not mistaken.
The Ferengi do seem to disdain murder on a massive scale, most likely because you can't do business with people that are dead.
They have good PR
Nog too said it, so it's probably true.
the more i learn about Roddenberry the more i am glad he had less and less involvement in trek before his death
why?
He had some weird ideas all right. But all we're getting without him is bad war fanfiction
Star Trek has only gotten worse without him and he made the damn thing. You loco?
Alien? Deep down everyone is a Ferengi 👐
Very good video. As someone with Frankish ancestry this was really cool to learn about, as Ferengi are one of my favorite races (despite their flaws).
Another homerun dude! As always, in addition to the impressive Star Trek knowledge on display, really dig: the science, history, and linguistics knowledge you worked into the script as a background intellect flex 💪 Please keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you Clint!
He’s very good!!!
Totally agree fantastic channel.
@@retiredguy7273 RIGHT?! I was stunned to see he has videos going back for years. Like dude is awesome, why hadn't TH-cam suggested his channel to me years ago?
i’m surprised that you didn’t mention the marauders and agencies with ships that protected the Ferengi Alliance and enforced the authorities’ will…those are private military personnel hired to enforce the will of their employers and were strong enough to disable and takeover the best Federation ship until the anti-Borg ships came into service
Why is the OrangeRiver river in your logo black, and only the surrounding area orange, instead of the inverse? Curious minds want to know.
"... wasn't really sure what I had to add..."
*proceeds with the most interesting and informative discussion on Ferengi I have ever heard* 🤔
Noting I can never get enough Star Trek discussions and enjoy hearing each new view so just cos people have talked about a topic before shouldn't put you off adding your perspective
(exception to the enjoyment are the channels that just incoherently rage scream about canon without thoughtful analysis)
Thank you! I always try to uncover what makes a species biologically and historically unique.
Lust fades, but Greed is eternal.
Remember to pay your debts though for the great counter!
Is that a jewish proverb?
After Deep Space 9, I wished there was a series called Ferengi Trek, where Quark, Rom, and a few others would explore space in search of great profits. In each episode Quark would try to generate a deal that would expand their profits, but everything would go south on them and in the end they'd be lucky to escape with their lives and a very minor profit if any.
I could picture Quark's opening words at the start of every episode, "Space, the final exploitation. These are the voyages of the starship Greed, its mission to maximize income from deals between easily swindled races, to seek out new wealth, and maximize profits!!!
Star Trek meets Duck Tales
American Foreign Policy in a nutshell
"To greedily go where lesser gold pressed latinum seekers have gone before."
I've wished the same thing,many times...There is so much to unpack with the I Ferengi. I always enjoyed the DS9 episodes featuring them the most.
People could barely tolerate 1 or 2 ferengi episodes per season. No way would a ferengi series work
No idea why people would complain about Ferengi-centric episodes, they're great.
You're killing it man. Great content!
I wish we had whole list for the Rules of Aquisition. Important life advice.
Funnest species in Star Trek!
I love playing as the ferengi in star trek ascendency
man this is a great channel and your a great speaker/explainer of Trek! As someone who LOVE 's Star Trek I appreciate your insight.
I think Orange River has the lobes.
catching up on more older videos - live long and prosper
The Ferengi could be an offshoot of the Dopterians, having evolved/engineered themselves in response to the conditions on Ferenginar. The Rules of Acquisition could have been what pulled the Ferengi out of a forgotten Dark Age.
Or simply they have a longer period of space expansion, warp was acquired around the 21st century but the could have been using other means of travel like the bajoran solar ships or sub warp colony ships. That may also explain the relatively small area the alliance covers.
I love your tutorial style. It's soothing but not boring. Thanks
I had you and Ric in my notifications!😳
But Ric knows I love him😁 and, to me, you're new and needed me more.😄😂
Great job as usual. I think Ferengi may be my favorite "aliens" on ST. 🖖🏻💚🌟
Ric is a fantastic creator! I appreciate the support!
After deep space nine, the ferengi became my favorite species. They are very complex and I love how deeply emotional they can be
Another home run video. Love your work. 👍
I literally just got done watching a TNG episode of freelancer Ferengi who stole two Klingon Birds of Prey , and stole a Galaxy Class Starship. Sometimes freelancer Ferengi are more interesting then Ferengi Alliance Ferengi as they are real pirates that are entertaining to watch.
those were the true antagonist that Gene hoped for, the ones with the cool looking ships(i love them more than Klingon and Romulan ships). and they weren’t easy to beat, they went toe to toe with the Federation’s best ship and damn near won!
Ferengi are my favorite species in Star Trek.
The Feringi language info you provided was interesting.
Do you think the Ferengi will become one of the dominant players in the galaxy in coming millennia, after the waning of the Federation's influence, or will the Federation always be the top dog in the long run? Gimme your thoughts below!
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In commerce and trade yes!
Hey have you ever made a video about the Binars or the planet Binus? I'd be interested in knowing more about the history of progression of that planet. How they became symbiotic with their supercomputer 🔭
@@matthew944 The Bynars have always interested me as well! Lots of people have wanted me to talk about some of the other cybernetic species in Star Trek besides the Borg--I'll have to do some more research on that.
I imagine that the Ferengi will be like the US after WW2. After WW2, most of the world was digging out of the ashes of the war. But American farms and factories were untouched. As a result, for a good long time, America exported product to the rest of the world which made America rich and an economic superpower. The same can be said of the Ferengi. They stayed out of the Dominion War. After such a draining war, the Alpha Quadrant has to rebuild. Which puts the Ferengi in a unique position to exploit the situation. Like America, they can become an economic superpower.
I stumbled across crude asshats on the Internet commenting that the Ferengi seem to utilize the racist tropes and stereotypes of the Jewish. Never thought of it like that, but after it was pointed out, I kind of hate that I enjoyed the antics so much and I was hoping you could dispel any suspicion that it was an intentional choice.
Some of those initial ideas about the Ferengi are just pure Roddenberry fanfic.
I think you overlooked the size of their...codpieces that GR wanted too 😂
:) Very good. Quite an Impact yes, Rom, Nog like many others were never intended to be consistent characters and more like recurring or even temporary. It was the great writing and DS9's ability to make every character shine that elevated those two to be necessary characters each with their own unique qualities. "178 words for rain on Ferenginar and not even one for crisp" :).
awesome video!
Thank you for this well researched and presented video. Looking forward to see more like this! What about a video about lesser known species? Background species resident at DS9 we know little about. Surely not enough to fill one episode for each of them. But a nice compilation to highlight them and the wide variety of species in Star Trek.
This channel, more than any other media, has spurred on my interest in all things Trek.
Nice job!!!!
always viewed the Ferengi to have been much less centralized and ordered than they would like have us believe in their stories...
My thought was that the Grand-Nagus system, and organized banking, were fairly recent things to permeate the Ferengi society with a sort of monolithic patriarchal structure... they have "written" a history for themselves, but my feeling it was more a myth than any real thing...
my own feeling was, that whilst Ferenginar was maybe under the Nagus, the main home of the species was a nomadic existence, traversing on ships of other's designs through space, gypsy/nomadic merchant men, with occasional dips into piracy, and much secretive trade & contraband-running between the galactic empires... they were not violent like the Orion's alliance... more caravanners of the desert, a species of space nomads... indeed, to me, Ferenginar made more sense then as a kind of Barbuda in the depths of space, rich, and opulent, but also small and harsh of a planet in climate....
I seem to remember hearing that the Ferengis bought warp technology from another race. Don't remember what episode said that, but it had to be part of DS9.
I think it came from a non-canon story that they purchased warp drive from the Breen
As the Next Generation episode, Suspicions, tells us, at least some Ferengi are interested in pure science.
Naug, son of Rom made the cultural leap and enlisted in Star Fleet Academy. Bravery earned him the rank of lieutenant.
For profit
8:42 despite their long practice of capitalism the Ferengi notably avoided slavery.
Despite? You can't have slavery in capitalism because you are free to chose any type of work. Slavery is against capitalism. I think the person that came up with the Ferengi knew that. And the grand nagus is based on Warren Buffet.
Are you implying that the sugar plantations founded in the Caribbean during the 17th Century were not Capitalist? Or that Antebellum America was not? If so, I'd love to hear your theory on how they were not. As it stands, your argument echoes Marxists waxing on about how "THAT wasn't Communism!"
I like that they are genuinely alien, unlike too many ST aliens who are humans with different foreheads.
Couldn't pre-warp space travel help explain the Dopterian-Ferengi connection and the small number of systems in Ferengi space? I could see the systems they hold as being ancient colonies established before warp drive was acquired. Having globalized early I could see them having basic space travel ability for a very long time. Perhaps early monopolies held their culture in a sort of stasis for thousands of years which held back their expansion and technological explosion until the Breen showed up with Warp drive resulting in a culture disinterested in territorial expansion but very hungry to break free of millenia old monopolies and establishment of new business opportunities offworld. The Dopterians could be as you speculate a result of genetic engineering that was done over the course of millennia rather than a few centuries making their radically different appearances more believable.
Holy crap, this is a well thought out explanation. Well done. We often tend to overlook pre-warp space travel in a lot of Trek societies-- just because humans went from Yuri Gagarin to Zefram Cochrane in just over a century doesn't mean other species would do it that quickly.
@@OrangeRiver Thanks! Yeah, I feel like well-established pre-warp spacefarers are underutilized in the franchise. Could be interesting in fleshing out lore for existing species and yet to be introduced ones, could provide an interesting angle for prime directive episodes.
I'm scrolling back through your videos looking for one I haven't seen.... Rewatching this one on my way.😁🖖🏻
Some humans eat some bugs as well. But one wouldn't eat a random strange bug. Only specific ones. Like crickets in garlic oil are quite tasty. A delicacy in certain parts of Europe. They kinda taste like nuts. Not that different from certain seafoods.
Frogs are also awesome. As is blood sausage. These food creep a lot of people out but they don't realize what they're missing
These are considered delicacies in Western and Southern Europa. Frog is quite popular in France and Belgium
I remember when TNG was first announced. We were told that there would be these new aliens called the Ferengi, and they would be a MAJOR, MAJOR threat to the new crew. Really, the main antagonists. You can even see this in "Encounter At Farpoint", when Grappler Zorn tries to pressure Riker by stating that they might take up business with the Ferengi rather then Starfleet. Riker then tells him something like, "I hope they don't find you as tasty as their LAST associates". When "The Last Outpost" first premiered, I anxiously awaited this fearsome, terrifying foes with anticipation. What I saw was little munchkin men who were far more comedic (and pathetic), then terrifying. I said to myself, "THIS is it? THIS is the terrifying new foe we should all fear? This is f*cking PATHETIC!!!". And I later found out that, at the time, I was far from alone on this.
I can totally see how Ferengis were originally gonna be Bat like and went from that to a bird and then the Phoenix eventually as their symbol. That is so cool! Now we just gotta figure out if they could fly!
You must remember.. although omnivores.. for most of human development out protein intake was insects. If we came across a kill and scavenged it. .. that was great.. but for the first million Years, 99% of our animal protein intake was insects.. which actually have 5 times the protein per pound. It's most likely what supercharged brain growth until we mastered fire and were able to pre digest the meat through cooking and get more.out of it. Bats are actually the most successful mammals in the world as far as diversity, locations, population
Ferengi is the Ethiopian word for foreigner. The Ethiopian word for king is Negus. Dabo is a type of Ethiopian bread. I’m pretty sure that is the language they were borrowing from.
This all sounds very interesting but for the life of me, I have no way of verifying if it's remotely true...starting with the fact that "Ethiopian" isn't a language :/
@@OrangeRiver Amharic is the most common one in the country, as it is used by the government and spoken as first or second language by virtually all Ethiopians.
Though the ferengi are not my favorite, this was still interesting. TY for the video.
Why does a Ferengi roofer conspiring to make it always rain sound likely?
I'm rewatching DS9 and I feel like you could do an entire episode on just the Grand Nagus alone. He is one of their best written characters.
Ferengi Sex Positions is my new band name.
I always got confused when I saw Ferrengi from Star Trek, because I was more familiar with the Ferrengi of a BBS game known as Tradewars 2002. The similarities of both Ferrengi are uncanny. However, the Ferrengi of Tradewars was violent and scary and to be avoided. Ferrengi of Star Trek acted more like regular profit based traders of Tradewars.
I think they could be named whatever the sysop wanted, he just happened to name them that :)
the thing i want to know most about the ferengi are what the other words they have for rain are outside of “glebbening”
I heard one word for rain was "Podrushing". I'm not sure if the correct spelling.
Ferringi having giant dongs needs to be canon.
It is canon! The Great Bird of the Galaxy* decreed it!
*(Gene Roddenberry)
It seems to almost always raing on the Feringi home planet.
As customed we will offer you the life of our first officer. Ferengi's are more violent than otherwise suggests.
Nice
Forgive me if someone has already made this point, but "Ferengi" is a derogatory term in the Pashto and Urdu languages for a western white person; equivalent epithets would be "Honky" or "Whitey."
I guess the Star Trek writers were having an inside joke.
Well originally the ferengi what's said to be yankee traders, so I guess that fits.
Love the videos, can leave without the intro
Dopterian & Kobheerian - those pesky preservers could be a reasonable option for similarities.
Do we have any evidence at all that the Borg species numbering system is based on the order in which they were encountered?
Ferengi....wicked but want more really. As Always love 💘 u...so.glad I found u. Only watched trek culture b 4. Kate massive treky Xxxxxxx
The Ferengi were my favorite alien species on DS9.
I’ve wondered if some of the Ferengi “alphabet” does not represent consonants or vowels, but economic terms.
I wish someone would do a TH-cam series specifically on the climate and geography of the planets in trek. I had a book in 1990 that was great.. worlds of the federation. It's allies. Neutral planets and enemies. It's the only thing I've see that gives detailed descriptions.of the topography of the planets themselves and how it effected the races from there.. for instance.. the klingon home world was very rocky with small forests scrabble forests.. but had very little fresh water.. just a few very salty seas. Because of lack of potable water, very few plants grew which meant almost no herbivores.. so every animal in the planet , including klinhons,, were derived from carnivorous hunters.. everything there hunted each other.. and this is why the klingons have such a warrior bearing naturally.
One thing that bothered me about the Ferengi homeworld is it is impossible for a biosphere to rain everywhere all the time. (Star Wars is even more guilty of this)
As somebody who hasn’t watched DS9, I didn’t know they were insectivores lol! Does that pop up in any of their other appearances? DS9 is the only old Trek series I’ve not gotten to yet. I do enjoy the Ferengi and will look forward to getting to know them better.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
I can't remember how much their diet is discussed in other shows (perhaps it is in TNG). DS9's my favorite Trek show, so I hope you enjoy it!
You've watched all but DS9? Honestly that's probably the best way to go about it, it would make the others so much less disappointing.
the conditions on Ferngiuar have existed for millions of years
The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
In DS9 season 1 episode 14 at the end of the episode I thought I seen data walk by was it him?
Don’t forget to read the fine print
i do wish they had gone more toward a more batlike appearance, but that may have made them too monstrous. DISCO seems to lean more toward this depiction.
Distant relatives.... So... Like the Vulcans and Mintakans... Or Vulcans and Romulans....Sounds reasonable.
Ferengi are awesome
First time watching you, great work! 👍
A subscribe from me.
Thank you James!
I enjoyed the Ferengi's first appearance...in Next Generation.
If you think about it,the Ferengi are actually one of the most moral people on Trek. We see that they have a (literally) religious dedication to profit,thereby equating profit with moral good. This is even more admirable when Ferengi like Quark are immersed in cultures that despise his values while he still upholds them. The fact that they avoided slavery and willngly pay to enter another's home proves that they respect other Ferengi (males) as profit earners,and willingly do above board business with them. The fact that they don't steal outright (except for the 1st appearance) and instead negotiate for what they want also goes to show their commitment, not necessarily to profit itself, but business and the Great Material Continuum.
EDIT: Their moral and respectful treatment doesn't extend to other species,only within the Ferengi: 'A contract is a contract is a contract, but only between Ferengi!'
Zeks annoying laugh is just the best
Right now its sleshing outside the outhouse im sitting n.
Im not much of a star trek expert but Ferengenar has green plants so I'd expect a K type over a red star.
I'd love to live on Ferenginar.
Have you considered analyzing gene roddenberry's andromeda?
But didn't Nog like crayfish and Mr Cisco's Cajun recipes and cuisine
Captain not common, first ferengi in the fleet ,hes captain in star trek online
The Ferengi didn't avoid slavery. They enslaved their females. When this started is unknown but it's definitely the case up until Ishka convinced Zek to start phasing it out and was probably completely abolished when Rom became Grand Nagus.
"Ferengi sex positions" isn't why I'm here. However, it is why I came. Hayooh! I'll see myself out...
:lul:
I'm not sure if this is true (or canon) but I heard once that there is an old Ferengi saying, "Only a Klingon would fart in an airlock." 💩
"take those clothes off right now mother"
I heard they stole warp drive from the Klingons.
Also, you taught me something new. Who knew that Ferengis had giant cod pieces… 🍆 ????!!!??? Maybe this is why they’re such hornballs and so completely confident with females of other species…
The Ferengi bought Warp Drive, that's established in the canon
@@kylegerhart4122 the novels aren't quite canon. but plausible
Would of been great to end it on a Ferengi saying rather than a Vulcan saying.
Ferengis might plummet into an existential dilemma once the females begin to compete economically. Unless they have extensive fertility. Good vid. I didn't know the species was so fleshed out. Most episodes I caught made them into a mockery.
I can imagine the Feeingi ruling as rhe Roman's did, keeping out of ethnic and political conflicts and favoring any one who does not disturb the public peace and who pays taxes promptly. And some people pregered Roman rules rather than being ruler by their own people it is sometimes said. I can see them as managers as a town might hire professional management but on a much larger scale.