You're right. Now excuse me while I go and get a sun tan while feeling the wind blow through my hair...
Oh please.
Neither wind nor solar could power a fraction of the technology we see in Star Trek.
The Federation's Economy
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Oh please.
Neither wind nor solar could power a fraction of the technology we see in Star Trek.
I expect you can replicate replicator parts which you put together, like building something from IKEA.
You're right. Now excuse me while I go and get a sun tan while feeling the wind blow through my hair...
Oh please.
Neither wind nor solar could power a fraction of the technology we see in Star Trek.
Go stick a Bussard Collector in the Sun's corona and see how much energy you can get for free...
You're right. Now excuse me while I go and get a sun tan while feeling the wind blow through my hair...
Oh please.
Neither wind nor solar could power a fraction of the technology we see in Star Trek.
Go stick a Bussard Collector in the Sun's corona and see how much energy you can get for free...
What good would that do?
Even then, it wouldn't be enough to power a replicator of the capabilities shown in Star Trek.
The replicator does not make money irrelevant. It makes money less of a necessity, but not irrelevant.
Someone still has to help build them. Someone has to design the patterns that they use to create stuff. Someone has to supply the replicator with the raw matter it'll use to re-arrange into food and other goods. Someone has to supply the replicator with power. Someone has to be able to repair it. Someone else has to inspect it to make sure it's safe. Probably someone else has to design some sort of firewall to make sure that no one tries to infect it with a computer virus or some such. All of those things are acts of labour that someone else will need to be compensated for.
And on top of all that, it's also an established fact that the replicator can't make food taste like it ought to.
Someone still has to help build them. Someone has to design the patterns that they use to create stuff. Someone has to supply the replicator with the raw matter it'll use to re-arrange into food and other goods. Someone has to supply the replicator with power. Someone has to be able to repair it. Someone else has to inspect it to make sure it's safe. Probably someone else has to design some sort of firewall to make sure that no one tries to infect it with a computer virus or some such. All of those things are acts of labour that someone else will need to be compensated for.
And on top of all that, it's also an established fact that the replicator can't make food taste like it ought to.
The energy costs of using a replicator would most times be more expensive than just making something the old-fashioned way. Let's not even go into transporters! A lot of Trek nonsense would've been avoided if they had had the budget to use shuttles in their FX in TOS like they originally wanted to.
Trek tech assumes some amazing infinte cost-free power source or else warp drive wouldn't be possible, nevermind the transporters and replicators. That's just a given that we have to accept for the show to go on. The notion of a moneyless economy of hyperabundance is another given. It's fine with me because it makes Star Trek different than most other shows out there. Everyone has warp drive but most aren't commies to boot.
Well, the starships certainly seem to have an abundance of power, but then they also have antimatter (which is certainly very costly to produce) and things like bussard ramscoops for collecting hydrogen. Not to mention dilithium crystals, etc. I always assumed antimatter was generated somewhere else and the ship was 'fueled up'. The nuclear reactor on a submarine is good for 5 years or so in terms of energy generation, but it won't power all of Earth.
With replicator technology being used to create self replicating mines in DS9, I actually began to wonder if it would be possible in Trek logic to create a self replicating power source.
In a sense it would be like a car battery. Fill a tank up with fuel which powers the warp core, which powers the ship, which in turn powers the self replicating tank to create more fuel, which powers the core...
He didn't finish his statement, so we'll never really know what he was going to say. Could have been a measure of time for all we know.
Bull. The clear implication is that Starfleet has invested 15 thousand or more credits in the training and payment of Mister Spock as an officer.
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