-> -=> Quoting Rogier Van eeten to Jay P. Hailey <=-
->
-> JP>RS>Giving Pike Latinum.
-> JP>        Well you wouldn't want to Give Picard Latinum.  They don't
-> JP> money in the 24th century...
-> RVe> Yes they do. Only on a starship it's like what Marx had in
-> mind. You
->  RVe> just do your work and you will get food and a roof above your h
-> RVe> On DS9 they work with money, just order a drink at Quark's
->
-> He meant as "Starfleet officers" don't use currency... as in Latinum.
-> Starfleet doesn't use things like that, they use CREDITS, like
-> replicator redits, transporter credits, etc...
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So...if they run out of transporter credits, you can envision a scene
where Dr Crusher needs to beam down and save a colony of a few million
people:  "I'm sorry, docotor, but you are out of credits, you can't go
down there"... is that how that would work? I was under the impression
that credits were the 24th centurey version of the Marxist dollar, used
only for luxruies, not nessessities.
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