The Enterprise tangles with the Ferengi again. The episode plods through the story, again without a sense of real urgency. There is no point in rehashing this storyline.

Some random observations made while trying not to get distracted too far from the television.

Troi informs the captain that the Ferengi are being deceptive. Wow! Will there be no end to her usefulness?

In the future, headaches will be extremely rare. The various utopian promises made by this show -- no need for money, no prejudice or hatred, replicators that give you anything you want, a holodeck allowing you to live out any fantasy -- are very enticing, but no headaches? I'm sold. Get me a time machine! Or put me in hibernation for a few centuries. This is great. Life would be 1000% more pleasant without headaches.

There is no known defense for the "Picard Maneuver." WTF???? I'm no martial arts expert, but I have studied it enough to learn that there is a counter for ANY attack. A person may not figure it out in the necessary split second, but it is theoretically there. (A retired special forces guy taught me that. He was believable.) Now, the Picard Maneuver was well known enough to be in textbooks. The Enterprise is a more advanced ship than the Star Gazer. The crew knew with practical certainty that Picard was going to use his maneuver on them. But they couldn't think of a defense? I called BS on this. Yeah, I know. It had to be this way so that Picard could eventually realize what was happening and stop the attack on his own.

The maneuver itself involved some sort of technobabble about using warp drive to make it seem like you are in two places at once. Couldn't the Enterprise use warp drive to be somewhere completely different? They knew, after all, what Picard had up his sleeve.

On the plus side, I did appreciate the way Riker convinced the Ferengi second in command to take control of the ship from his revenge obsessed captain. Riker is proving to be more effective member of the crew than I remember. He still looks like Potsie Weber. Hurry up and grow a beard!