Timeline for Why and how did the Star Trek Universe evolve to a cashless/commerce-less society?
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 22:57 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | There is also the line in the Genesis introductory video in Star Trek 2, where Carol Marcus asks Starfleet to fund further research. Presumably this refers to some sort of resource allocation, as you say. | |
| Jul 17, 2012 at 5:51 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | Even in DS9, it was mentioned that money was used but not so much by the Federation. I'd have to hunt down the episode, but I do remember Sisko once holding over Quark's head the possibility of charging rent for his bar... with the implication that they hadn't been charging him all along. But there definitely was a Deep Space 9 economy, and Quark was an economic leader in that community. At the end of the series, it could be interpreted that the Ferengi Alliance is heading in the economic direction of the Federation's cashless economy. | |
| Nov 11, 2011 at 17:23 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | It's a cashless society in all the ways that matter. Today we may use credit cards, but our society is still based around the accumulation of wealth. Whereas, the societies of the Federation aren't driven by capitalism. You still need an economic system for distributing resources, so credits are used as currency for trades and measuring the relative value of resources & services. But the credits each Feddy citizen is allotted is probably based on their needs (family size/number of dependants/where they live) rather than occupation/rank. | |
| Sep 3, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | eidylon | Also, depending how seriously you take J.J.'s Trek as part of canon, ... in the bar in the beginning, Kirk tells the bartender "her [Uhura's] drink is on me". This implies that Kirk is going to pay for her drink, which implies currency of some sort, ergo, NOT a cashless society. | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 18:28 | history | edited | Mark Rogers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 21, 2011 at 2:54 | history | answered | Zypher | CC BY-SA 2.5 |