From: di408@torfree.net (Gregory Reid)
Subject: Re: I got some questions?
Date: 2000/07/05
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Missed the original message, but some info now...

King of Cyberia (garyli@reincarnate.com.GRETHOR) wrote:
: Today Jarod_24 walked on stage, wiggled said hiney and 

: J :Money: As far as i know, no one in starfleet get paid (at least not
: J :Picard). But in DS9, they use money, and Dr. Crusher told the
: J :shopkeeper (in "encouter at farpoint") to send the bill to starfleet
: J :("Charge it to Dr. Crusher..."). When do they use money, and when do
: J :they not?

Each planet (or in some cases, empire) has its own economic system.  On 
Earth, about 60 years before TNG, a revolution brought by the 
introduction of replicator technology resulted in a currency-free 
society where all needs of the population could be easily and 
automatically sustained.  The only property that you can't get for free 
would be certain rare earth elements, land, and big-ticket items like 
shuttlecraft and holodecks.  Many but not all other planets followed the 
same course as Earth; the Ferengi and Klingons are noteable in their use 
of various hard currencies.  Starship crews probably receive some means 
of compensation for their extrodinary work, such as an option to the 
title of land on colony worlds, but generally don't need money so they don't 
carry it unless stationed someplace that uses money.

: J :Religion:
: J :What religion does humas have in Star-Trek?

Oprahism and Voodoo.

I imagine there are quite a few xenodeistic cults, such as the Borgies 
and the Q-shippers, probably several cults to the Preservers.  And no 
doubt many have imported alien religions which follow the teachings of 
Kahless, the Bajoran Prophets, etc.  It seems like anyone who held onto 
old Earth religions left the planet and founded an isolationist colony 
where they could practise their religion without interference.

: J :Lore:
: J :What ever happened to Lore, Datas evil brother? I've only seen him in one
: J :episode, when Data comes back "home" and power him up. Later on Picard

: Try watching "Descent Pt. 1 and 2" and "Brothers."

Yeah, watch those episodes.  I don't want to spoil it for you.

: J :Dark Skin:
: J :Humans are found i several types. Black, Yellow, White (i don't mean to
: J :offend anyone)... Does other races (like the vulcans, romulans and 
klingons) : J :come in other "colors"?

I personally didn't like the advent of dark-skinned Vulcans.  And I'm not 
a racist thinking that only "whites" can be hyperintelligent.  It's just 
that it makes them too human.  I'd rather see Vulcans with more green 
pigmentation, or pink Vulcans, or something else suitably alien.  As for 
actors, I don't really care.  But they've had lots of white actors who 
had to wear dark makeup to be Klingons, so why not make a black actor 
wear green-white makeup to be a Vulcan?
 
Speaking of Klingons, there was one light-skinned Klingon as a featured 
bad guy on DS Nine, but he was referred to as "The Albino" and I take it 
that he was more of a freak, a genetic anomaly, than a representative of 
an ethnic group.

There have been dark-skinned Bajorans, as extras in some of the crowd 
scenes on DS Nine.  But they seem to be either an extremely small 
minority of the population, or a small minority of the priviledged class 
which has access to DS Nine.
 
Oh, and Bolians.  There are grey-skinned Bolians (early to mid TNG) and 
bright blue-skinned Bolians (TNG, DSN, possibly VOY).  Now that is alien, 
picking colours that you don't have with humans, and that I like.

ttyl.