Thursday, December 15, 2011

How do credits (their currency) in Star Trek work?

I never really watched it but I'd like to know how their currency works because from what I hear it's a great system with credits and whatnot. Can anyone help me out?|||Captain Kirk actually says that they don't use currency in the 24th century in Star Trek 4 when the waiter at a restaurant brings the bill, forcing his date to pay. This is contradicted in various TV shows, but basically the monetary system has never been adequately explained, and the information that is available from the movies and TV shows contradicts itself.





Live long and prosper.|||http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_鈥?/a>|||For starters it's Star Trek, for second.... well.... it's Star Trek.|||The currency is based on your needs, and your job. Now, in theory, this does sound like it would work. Yet, on one Star Trek episode, the machine deck had an uprising against the Captain (Picard?). Simply, even though your needs were being met. Money was not needed. The machine hands felt ignored and 'not as important' as other positions on the ship. So even if the 'money' os distributed, this episode pointed out the possibility of how we view and define classes of people.|||In Tos it works like paper dollars. From TNG onwards there is none.

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