When I rewatch I'm gonna have to see if the day/night time zones add up with all the quick moves around earth.
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Just on a starship for Starfleet officers who could be called for duty at any moment. Although there are several examples of the replicators making actual alcohol, it just wasn't the default. The space Irish on that TNG episode managed to get the replicator to produce alcohol, that alien that could swap DNA with people on Voyager got drunk in the mess hall, and Quark served alcoholic drinks. Given the Picard family making wine isn't treated as a social taboo, Picard's brother just did in an old fashioned way instead of more modern methods.
I guess I took it as the starship representing the federation as a whole because that’s what Gene seemed intent on doing. But yeah, fair enough.
Guinan even kept a supply of real alcoholic beverages behind the bar at Ten Forward. Scotty and Picard shared a bottle of Aldebaran whiskey.
Sorry for the so late answer. But still the nature tell us the purpose, because they're real and logical. While the 4 genders in Star Trek is just an excuse to make an Alien different, without giving us any work-able purpose of how they reproduce. Because the actors are still humans with 2 genders. And still in our nature, there are no creatures that have more than 2 genders.
Even Japanese are more creative about this with their futanari and genderless character.
If Andorian really have 4 genders, they should make them visually believe-able. Use CGI, or whatever. Not opera actors with costume. As they always tell us that those Andorians are "Male", and "Female" genders on screen. Not Andorean Gender A, Gender B, Gender C, and Gender D.
Or maybe those Andorian 4 sexes are actually Male, Female, Futanari, and genderless? That's more logical than forcing to create an Alien people who have to do "Foursome" in order to breed. That's too complicated. They (Andorian) are very lucky that they can survive even with some reason-able number. The concept of love, like in our modern live won't work to them.
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I was agreeing with you so I don't understand this answer.
The Enterprise D was the flaghsip.
Not only where they meant to be the best of the best but Starfleet probably stuck all the politically extreme wackos on it to get them as far away from federation space as possible so they can annoy some distant aliens rather then cause trouble at home.
So while the Ent D crew were drinking synthhol, not using money and doing all the other crazy shit gene dreamed up the bog standard star fleet vessel was probably more down to earth.
as seen on DS9
I think the UFP will have (Energy / Matter / Work) Credits.
People will put out work which will get recognized by the computer as accomplished Credits of __ Grade Work in exchange to gain Energy / Matter Credits. These Energy / Matter Credits can be exchanged for Goods / Items / Services.
By the time a person accrue enough Energy / Matter to have their own Reactor / StarShip, they would be considered "Rich" since they can venture off planet on their own and gather cheap "Energy / Matter" stores and deposit them in Energy / Matter Storage Banks within a UFP managed facility. This will get "Energy / Matter" credits applied to their accounts.
Why? They have effectively unlimited energy, what's the point? Why not just let anyone to replicate what they want? Artificially creating scarcity seems pretty mean.
It's not unlimited despite what you may think. Nothing is "Unlimited". It takes skill to manufacture / design / maintain Power Reactors. It takes energy to create Anti-Matter for use / storage. All that work to make Energy has to come from somewhere.
Yes many things will be very "Cheap", but nothing will be "Free". Just costs of many Goods / Services will be incredibly cheap relative to what you get paid.
Refining matter to base elements that Replicators can use comes from some where.
Same with designing, testing, and manufacturing new goods / services.
It is effectively unlimited amount of energy. If you can power warp drives, people replicating some golf clubs will not make a noticeable dent It's like charging for air. And yes, design and other work needs to happen, but that is not a cost, as those people don't get paid either, because everything is free!
Replicating can't be the most energy/matter cost effective way of product manufacturing. It only makes sense in those who have extreme energy reserves and are far away from civilization where local manufacturing can probably do it for far cheaper.
Eh, people get paid for their work (Time inputed with results outputted). That's how I see the future UFP.
e.g. You design the latest version of Golf Clubs which improves your game by ___ %. You spent time in simulations, testing, refining the design countless revisions. etc. All that will output you a IP right to your said design. As people replicate it, you get some profit from it, as people trade Energy/Matter credits for your product for locally manufactured, you get some of that Energy/Matter credits to your account.
Nah. You get likes and feel accomplished. Like here. No one is paying you to post, yet you do.
but I only do that to better myself, not because I'm a paid CBS plant
Social currency ?
Kinda yes. If you're a super successful golf club designer, your reward is not money, it is the knowledge that the clubs you designed were the most replicated ones, it is people knowing your name, inviting you to be a speaker in... golf club conventions (I'm sure such exist!) etc.
Interesting.
Real World isn't your Social media fantasy.
Everything costs some thing to be made.
Anti-Matter takes ALOT of energy to manufacture in the real world
We're already doing it at a very primitive scale.
Even in the future when they start mastering how to do it with less infrastructure and less energy input. Law's of Conservation will dictate that it still takes more energy into making Anti-Matter then it generates.
It just will generate ALOT of Energy once you feed the Anti-Matter into the M/A-M reactor that will power your warp core.
The nice thing we have is alot of free energy from Stars and access to matter in space and on planets.
Refining all that still takes input matter / infrastructure, energy, etc.
In this universe, you WILL obey the Laws of ThermoDynamics.
Good thing Star Trek is fantasy.
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