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Ferengi Forward Missile Launchers (DaiMon Goss's Vessel)

A bank of external, forward-mounted missile launch tubes on DaiMon Goss's Ferengi warship: compact, tubular/ canister launchers set in segmented racks with hinged apertures, vented exhaust ports, targeting conduits, blinking arming lights and maintenance panels. When activated they produce a low mechanical growl and bright muzzle flare as a single missile streaks free, drawing tactical alarms on the Enterprise bridge (console spikes, Worf’s report, Yellow Alert) until defensive phaser fire disintegrates inbound ordnance. Functions narratively as an immediate tactical threat and a staged provocation that escalates diplomatic stakes.
5 appearances

Purpose

A forward‑firing projectile/warhead delivery system designed to launch missiles at targets ahead of the Ferengi craft, providing short‑to‑medium range offensive firepower and coercive tactical leverage in engagements.

Significance

Serves as the tangible lever of political and military coercion in the scene: the reported shutdown of these launchers functions as the visible proof that the Ferengi have stood down, collapsing an onstage crisis and reframing diplomatic negotiations into a moral confrontation and urgent tactical emergency when subsequent events unfold.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments
S3E8 · The Price
Missile at the Wormhole — A Manufactured Provocation

The Ferengi missile launchers are reported powering forward and are the source mechanism for the torpedo fired at the wormhole opening; they function narratively as the visible proof of violent intent and convert rhetoric into immediate physical danger.

Before: Mounted on the Ferengi vessel's hull, armed and powering up as reported by Worf.
After: One missile was discharged from the launchers and was destroyed in transit by Enterprise phaser fire; the launchers remain mounted but have expended at least one round.
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S3E8 · The Price
Staged Strike at the Wormhole

A Ferengi‑launched missile becomes the immediate physical threat: it is powered toward the wormhole entry, registering on Enterprise sensors, and is targeted and destroyed by the ship's phasers. Narratively, the missile converts rhetorical provocation into kinetic danger, forcing a defensive response that exposes the spectacle.

Before: Mounted in the Ferengi vessel's external missile launch tubes, armed and launched toward the wormhole.
After: Intercepted by Enterprise phaser fire and exploded mid‑course, neutralized as a threat.
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S3E8 · The Price
Staged Crisis Unmasked: Troi Calls the Bluff

The Ferengi forward missile launchers are the tactical mechanism behind Goss's threat; Worf reports they have been shut down — a concrete sign that the performative crisis has been neutralized, at least superficially.

Before: Reported by tactical sensors as active on the Ferengi vessel's forward hull.
After: Reported shut down after Devinoni's conciliatory offer and apparent negotiation success.
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S3E8 · The Price
Troi Calls Devinoni — The Negotiation Unmasked

Ferengi forward missile launchers are the specific tactical hardware named by Worf; their shut-down is the concrete evidence that the immediate kinetic threat has been removed and that Goss's on-screen menace may have been performative.

Before: Active/displayed as armed or at least threaten-capable during Goss's on-screen posturing.
After: Reported shut down by Worf; no longer posing an immediate kinetic threat to the Enterprise or shuttles.
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S3E8 · The Price
Staged Crisis Unmasked — The Wormhole's True Cost

The Ferengi's forward missile launchers are the specific tactical hardware referenced during the confrontation: Worf reports that they have been shut down, marking a temporary de-escalation that is immediately complicated by the shuttle's distress.

Before: Operational and implied to be armed or ready, creating imminent threat to any nearby shuttlecraft.
After: Reportedly shut down by the Ferengi vessel, reducing immediate kinetic danger but not removing the emergent rescue need.
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