Nitpicking Star Trek – Ferengi Construction

Though there wasn’t room in the meme, we also see the same architecture on Malcor III in “First Contact” (TNG S4 Ep15)

and on the Klingon colony of Krios in “The Mind’s Eye” (TNG S4 Ep24)

The Ferengi COULD have sold to the Klingons, but Malcor III is a pre-warp civilization fascinated by and simultaneously xenophobic. Their buildings, along with those on Banea must by examples of Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planetary Development.

Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Planetary Development was a biological theory first postulated by A.E. Hodgkin. The theory was that similar planets with similar environments and similar populations tended to gravitate toward similar biological developments over time. Although initially applicable only to biology, it was later expanded to include a tendency to move toward similar sociological developments as well with sentient beings.

Stepping out of universe. Some of these matte paintings were modified with the remastered version of TNG. There’s a whole article detailing the reuse of the matte painting and the modifications made for the remaster at Ex Astris Scientia.

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