Potentially Useful Meta III: It's only a Klingon prison if you have to eat Heart of Targ.

[templemarker]

So I still haven't finished my post on Spock. I'm sorry for the lamitude; all kinds of nonsense has been happening at Casa Templemarker and I just haven't managed to get it done. There's all this meta stuff I have to get through, and sorting that out reminds me of this Bioethics paper I wrote last year, in the less-than-fun sort of way

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[templemarker]

Thanks! Glad it's helpful stuff. :)

[skywaterblue]

I agree about the use of dilithium, but of course by TNG they are replicating/recrystalizing it all the time. I still don't know that it works as a form of trade, since it's a natural resource much like oil.

(I'm on record as thinking that the Federation credit is a monetary system, but that the characters don't consider it money because it represents energy units and everyone is given a ration of energy credit irregardless of employment.)

I won't even mention the correlation between the UFP's lack of fight readiness due to the RSE becoming fiercely insular and the KIE's power base being destroyed and how that made them incredibly vulnerable to the Borg. But, you know, it's there.The Borg is a threat, but ultimately not as big of a threat as the Dominion is - they're lucky they meet the Borg and start to rearm in time. (Leaving aside the Defiant-class, Intrepid-class science vessels are clearly inspired by the Borg invasions. And the Sovereign-class, which is clearly meant to be a replacement for the Galaxy-class that must have

[templemarker]

Energy credits? Tell me more

[skywaterblue]

Energy credits? Tell me more.

When Ben Sisko talks about being in the Academy, he mentions he blew out his entire transporter credits for the month going home in the first week. So that tells us that using the transporter has some limits that even normal citizens can be expected to follow.

Also, when Voyager gets stuck out in the Delta Quadrant, one of the first things that Janeway institutes is replicator and holodeck rations as they are energy consumptive systems. The concept of a debit system of energy to be used on replicators is probably not an unknown concept, because it wouldn't have come to her so readily.

If you can synthesize the natural resource you need, what becomes of value?Only the things you can't reproduce, which is why the Ferengi are using latinum, of course

[fringelement]

There is no such thing as too much meta about the economics of ST. Thanks for this!

[templemarker]

Glad you found it interesting! Hope it was food for thought.