Eu estava assistindo 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 próprio home world too short for themselves?!
O roteiro original 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.
eu tenho visto 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