The ones I consider to enhance the overall experience in order of priority top to bottom:-

1. Precursor Worlds DLC
2. Lost Treasures DLC
3. Mega Events DLC
4. Mercenaries DLC
5. Revenge of the Snathi DLC

The rest are cosmetic more than game changers.

Its 4th on the list, get the first 3

Mercs and Snathi have extra factions. Mercs has well Mercs, myself I never use them I just listed it due to the factions.

Eh, how so?

DLC *by definition* is 'extras' not critical to the game. They have varying degrees of "value", mostly dependent on which aspects of the game YOU personally like.  You might not want to pay full-price for all them, but there's no call for saying they somehow hurt credibility.  Sure, they could be combined in a new Expansion sometime, but that's $30 or so, and having them available as DLC in the mean time is entirely logical and correct.

Unless, of course, you think that companies should just hand out stuff for free all the time, forever.

That must be sarcasm? here is some more sarcasm.... Yea exactly, because look how fantastic communism worked out, and the concept of no money in startrek is very intelligent and would work... even though we have no idea why it would work!

yea, well that is just one of a thousand examples why no money in star trek is idiocy.

That same series DS9.... Cisco plans to retire to Bajore (however you spell it). A planet that uses money.... what will Cisco use to buy the land??????

The main reason it doesn't work is if you could get everything for free then very few would work and it would be hard to promote someone. Except when people wanted to be jerks with a power trip. And people complain about their bosses now imagine how much worse it would be when that is the only reason it is to get promoted.

He'll just use a replicator to create the gold pressed latinum.  One of the many ridiculous inconsistencies in Roddenberry's universe.  BTW, the Ferengi were first seen in an episode where they were portrayed as evil, money grubbing capitalists, far less advanced than the Federation.  Their image was softened in later episodes.

Considering that e=mc**2, I can't possibly disagree with you. This is way off topic, though

I came in here for interesting critiques of DLC, and all I saw was people praising capitalism.

I was kidding, mostly. 

I can tell nobody watches deep space nine. Gold pressed latinum is undeliverable. I forgot why. It's in there. 

Platinum not typo spell checker.

I think he is just giving examples of how we can tell who dousnt watch deep space nine

Yeah, gold-pressed latinum can't be replicated. This is something I knew, but didn't really care about.

(no one remember my previous avatar was from Star Trek)