Timeline for What, exactly did Starfleet have "invested" in Mr. Spock?
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| Dec 15, 2023 at 19:24 | comment | added | Valorum | From the official Star Trek #6 official episode novelisation - "Do you know how much money Starfleet has invested in you?” “Certainly. In training, fifteen thousand, eight hundred a year; in pay up to last month-“ | |
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 3:59 | comment | added | SteveED | It could also be time. 122200 hours is about 13 years. spock could have been refering to the entire tour of duty as an investment. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 3:15 | comment | added | Anthony X | Picard talks about money having become obsolete in the Federation in "The Neutral Zone", but this is TNG, 80 years after TOS. In TOS, Harry Mudd aspires to wealth ("Mudd's Women"), and Cyrano Jones haggles with the bartender over the price of tribbles ("The Trouble With Tribbles"). Money is alive and well in TOS-era Trek, phased out by TNG. Starfleet indeed would have spent many TOS-era credits on Spock's training and development - it would have invested in him, Kirk, and all other crewmembers, including the hapless red-shirts. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:54 | comment | added | Praxis | @RLH : Definitely. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:52 | comment | added | RLH | Interesting. After reading your response and the linked reference, it appears that there were, both, "credits" as currency in-universe, but almighty-God Rodenberry refused to accept that money existed within the federation (at least later in the saga.) I guess a "credit" is a fuzzy concept within the Star Trek universe. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:46 | vote | accept | RLH | ||
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 2:05 | history | answered | Praxis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |