  Ferengi ethics aren't what Quark says they are. There are two examples of them wanting to sell captives into slavery, in ENT and TNG, Quark himself used forced labour when the Cardassians ruled DS0, and had a longstanding ambition to join...  The Orion Syndicate, who have all the creepy sex slavery you can shake a stick with.  Perhaps he meant that the Ferengi have never enslaved other Ferengi, because they sure as fuck enslave others, and he personally used slaves and wanted to buy into the slave trade. But then, we have no evidence that Hutts have enslaved other Hutts either.  Superior Moderator - BotB - HAB [Drill Instructor]-Writer- Stardestroyer.net's resident Star-God. "We believe in the systematic understanding of the physical world through observation and experimentation, argument and debate and most of all freedom of will." ~ Stargate: The Ark of Truth  Ferengi ethics aren't what Quark says they are. There are two examples of them wanting to sell captives into slavery, in ENT and TNG, Quark himself used forced labour when the Cardassians ruled DS0, and had a longstanding ambition to join...  The Orion Syndicate, who have all the creepy sex slavery you can shake a stick with.  Perhaps he meant that the Ferengi have never enslaved other Ferengi, because they sure as fuck enslave others, and he personally used slaves and wanted to buy into the slave trade. But then, we have no evidence that Hutts have enslaved other Hutts either.  