01-21-2026, 06:58 PM
I'd take it as a bit of idiom instead of evidence that dollars are still in use in the Federation a thousand years from now.
Arguably the DS9 bit is stupider, the universal translator should have made clear it was currency and Quark himself should have been able to understand that just from the discussion.
Further, Starfleet Academy is set after The Burn and despite Discovery being as stupid as the rest, there's no way the Federation of that universe should be able to continue to be a scarcity free economy. And Earth wasn't part of the Federation in Discovery at first so there's no way they're already scarcity free again even if the Federation was.
Roddenberry was an idiot and should be ignored about this anyway because he never depicted the Federation as scarcity free either. That pretty much all looks like Federation propaganda in retrospect, military officials who want for nothing condemning everyone else because they don't have the economic resources of Starfleet. DS9 almost gets to admitting this. Voyager should be considered an admission of it even with their remarkable ability to create torpedoes and shuttles out of nothing.
Arguably the DS9 bit is stupider, the universal translator should have made clear it was currency and Quark himself should have been able to understand that just from the discussion.
Further, Starfleet Academy is set after The Burn and despite Discovery being as stupid as the rest, there's no way the Federation of that universe should be able to continue to be a scarcity free economy. And Earth wasn't part of the Federation in Discovery at first so there's no way they're already scarcity free again even if the Federation was.
Roddenberry was an idiot and should be ignored about this anyway because he never depicted the Federation as scarcity free either. That pretty much all looks like Federation propaganda in retrospect, military officials who want for nothing condemning everyone else because they don't have the economic resources of Starfleet. DS9 almost gets to admitting this. Voyager should be considered an admission of it even with their remarkable ability to create torpedoes and shuttles out of nothing.
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