Jim Fulner reviewed The 34th Rule by David R. George III (Star Trek: Deep Space 9, #23)
Everyone is judgemental of the Ferengi culture
3 stars
It was a fine book but itdidn't really work out the way that I had expected to. I think it would have been much better as a standalone story. However with its intention of acting within the middle of the Star Trek deep space nine television series it didn't really flow for me. I don't think that Quark and the rest of the Ferengis could have gone on living the same way they did on the television series if they had been banned from Bajoran space at some time in the recent past. It would still be too many hard feelings, in my opinion ,to have continued living as nothing had changed. Otherwise the little to the point that it's like it was something that should have been a bigger deal than it was I don't know how this actually met with the finding of the 9th orb but if …
It was a fine book but itdidn't really work out the way that I had expected to. I think it would have been much better as a standalone story. However with its intention of acting within the middle of the Star Trek deep space nine television series it didn't really flow for me. I don't think that Quark and the rest of the Ferengis could have gone on living the same way they did on the television series if they had been banned from Bajoran space at some time in the recent past. It would still be too many hard feelings, in my opinion ,to have continued living as nothing had changed. Otherwise the little to the point that it's like it was something that should have been a bigger deal than it was I don't know how this actually met with the finding of the 9th orb but if we pretend it's in its own universe it's a good story with the ferengis being treated almost like the Japanese-Americans during the world war II encampment one of the few times we see racism thoroughly addressed within the Star Trek universe.