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I was watching DS9: Family Business when I noticed all the doors on Ferenginar are much shorter than the average Ferengi, causing them to crouch down every time they enter a room.

That's gotta be terrible for their backs! I understand that Ferengi are shorter than the average humanoid, but why would they make the doors on their own home world too short for themselves?!

There are some other examples
here 1, 2, 3

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  Ferenginar's weather is known for torrential rains and rivers of muck. If dens (either presently or traditionally) are air tight, having doors below head level would ensure in the event of an overwhelming flood there's a bubble of air trapped inside that is breathable for those inside. But this has no canon support I'm aware of so I can't put my rampant speculation as answer. :)
  
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I was watching DS9: Family Business when I noticed all the doors on Ferenginar are much shorter than the average Ferengi, causing them to crouch down every time they enter a room.

That's gotta be terrible for their backs! I understand that Ferengi are shorter than the average humanoid, but why would they make the doors on their own home world too short for themselves?!

There are some other examples
here 1, 2, 3

star-trek star-trek-ds9 ferengi

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  Good question. I wondered that at the time too. I suspect it's to make the houses look more like dens.
  
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  Maybe they're really old doors? You can see similar real world examples of human doors that are lower than average height, in areas with buildings that are centuries old. This is because humans have got significantly taller over time.
  
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  Ferenginar's weather is known for torrential rains and rivers of muck. If dens (either presently or traditionally) are air tight, having doors below head level would ensure in the event of an overwhelming flood there's a bubble of air trapped inside that is breathable for those inside. But this has no canon support I'm aware of so I can't put my rampant speculation as answer. :)
  
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  I would hazard a guess that it makes the doors cheaper to construct. :-) And perhaps Ferengi don't suffer the same sort of back problems as hew-mons? There's less weight and leverage on their spine which I imagine would help.
  
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I was watching DS9: Family Business when I noticed all the doors on Ferenginar are much shorter than the average Ferengi, causing them to crouch down every time they enter a room.

That's gotta be terrible for their backs! I understand that Ferengi are shorter than the average humanoid, but why would they make the doors on their own home world too short for themselves?!

There are some other examples
here 1, 2, 3

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The original script describes them thusly;

There are no windows, but there are a few doors leading to other parts
of the building. The doors are low and tunnel-like and even Ferengi
have to stoop to get through them. Rain from Ferenginar's relentless
downpour can be heard beating against the roof.

Quark and Rom ENTER, followed by Brunt. Each Ferengi deposits a coin
in a collection box by the door, then removes a towel from a rack, and
begins blotting off the rain.

The fact that they look like tunnel entrances may be a nod to the fact that the Ferengi are more animalistic, living in literal dens that have been modernised.

---

I've seen web-chatter that one of the EU novels mentions that the doorways became smaller over time as the Ferengi realised that they were among the shortest of the Alpha quadrant races, as a form of compensation for their obvious inferiority.

I liked the explanation offered in one of the books that Ferengi
doors are too short for them. After gaining spaceflight and realizing
they are shorter than other humanoids, the trend for small doors
emerged as a way to make them feel taller in the same spaces. I kind
of retroactively assumed that's what the designers were actually
thinking

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I could have sworn I remembered it being about being in the position to grovel even you enter the room

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The original script describes them thusly;

There are no windows, but there are a few doors leading to other parts
of the building. The doors are low and tunnel-like and even Ferengi
have to stoop to get through them. Rain from Ferenginar's relentless
downpour can be heard beating against the roof.

Quark and Rom ENTER, followed by Brunt. Each Ferengi deposits a coin
in a collection box by the door, then removes a towel from a rack, and
begins blotting off the rain.

The fact that they look like tunnel entrances may be a nod to the fact that the Ferengi are more animalistic, living in literal dens that have been modernised.

---

I've seen web-chatter that one of the EU novels mentions that the doorways became smaller over time as the Ferengi realised that they were among the shortest of the Alpha quadrant races, as a form of compensation for their obvious inferiority.

I liked the explanation offered in one of the books that Ferengi
doors are too short for them. After gaining spaceflight and realizing
they are shorter than other humanoids, the trend for small doors
emerged as a way to make them feel taller in the same spaces. I kind
of retroactively assumed that's what the designers were actually
thinking

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The original script describes them thusly;

There are no windows, but there are a few doors leading to other parts
of the building. The doors are low and tunnel-like and even Ferengi
have to stoop to get through them. Rain from Ferenginar's relentless
downpour can be heard beating against the roof.

Quark and Rom ENTER, followed by Brunt. Each Ferengi deposits a coin
in a collection box by the door, then removes a towel from a rack, and
begins blotting off the rain.

The fact that they look like tunnel entrances may be a nod to the fact that the Ferengi are more animalistic, living in literal dens that have been modernised.

---

I've seen web-chatter that one of the EU novels mentions that the doorways became smaller over time as the Ferengi realised that they were among the shortest of the Alpha quadrant races, as a form of compensation for their obvious inferiority.

I liked the explanation offered in one of the books that Ferengi
doors are too short for them. After gaining spaceflight and realizing
they are shorter than other humanoids, the trend for small doors
emerged as a way to make them feel taller in the same spaces. I kind
of retroactively assumed that's what the designers were actually
thinking

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The original script describes them thusly;

There are no windows, but there are a few doors leading to other parts
of the building. The doors are low and tunnel-like and even Ferengi
have to stoop to get through them. Rain from Ferenginar's relentless
downpour can be heard beating against the roof.

Quark and Rom ENTER, followed by Brunt. Each Ferengi deposits a coin
in a collection box by the door, then removes a towel from a rack, and
begins blotting off the rain.

The fact that they look like tunnel entrances may be a nod to the fact that the Ferengi are more animalistic, living in literal dens that have been modernised.

---

I've seen web-chatter that one of the EU novels mentions that the doorways became smaller over time as the Ferengi realised that they were among the shortest of the Alpha quadrant races, as a form of compensation for their obvious inferiority.

I liked the explanation offered in one of the books that Ferengi
doors are too short for them. After gaining spaceflight and realizing
they are shorter than other humanoids, the trend for small doors
emerged as a way to make them feel taller in the same spaces. I kind
of retroactively assumed that's what the designers were actually
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