10 Star Trek Episodes That Actors Regret
6. The Last Outpost - Armin Shimerman
The Ferengi were supposed to be the big villains of Star Trek: The Next Generation in its first season, eventually rising to the same infamy as the Romulans and the Klingons. While they certainly became infamous, it wasn't for the reasons the writers intended and for that, Armin Shimerman again makes an appearance on this list.
He was one of the very first members of this race to appear on-screen and considering he would go on to define what it meant to be a Ferengi, he feels responsible for the early failure with them.
The Last Outpost depicts them as something akin to jackals on speed, barking and hissing and generally being a nuisance. Shimerman had an impossible task - make this character description intimidating. Even the blue energy pulsating whips that they used weren't enough to make the audience take them seriously.
Taking on the role of Quark in Deep Space Nine was Shimerman's attempt to course correct the damage that had been done to the Ferengi overall, giving the character everything he had to make sure that no one would ever think of those hyped-up idiots from The Last Outpost again.