How did money work on deep space 9? (endlesstalk.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org to c/startrek@startrek.website

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Whenever there's a storyline with quark, they talk about money/latinum.

I remember in one of the next gen episodes that there was discussion about money and Picard said something about how they've moved away from money.

So do Starfleet get paid now?

Update: thank you for the quick responses. From what I'm gathering the tldr is that the following is the answer

Ferengi love for money/not being a post scarcity society by design
Bajorans being so near their slavery times and not post scarcity yet
Quark creating an atmosphere of camaraderie/gambling/upgraded replicators/actual food

All this requires some form of currency.

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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ferengi have never stopped caring about profit, it's a fundamental part of their culture.

Gold pressed latinum is an interesting currency FWIW. IIRC latinum is so valuable that gold is just the container for it, adding little value.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Latinum

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

iirc gold is considered worthless.

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Gold can be replicated, so it is worthless. I don't know why gold is used to suspend Latium, but it is.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Well gold is famously nonreactive and doesn't tarnish. Plus it looks good.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Looks nice. Non-reactive. Quark talks about gold-pressed latinum having a distinctive clink, so the gold would be a part of that.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

That sounds right to me as well now that you mention it.

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