What is your personal head canon?

[cooleddie74]

That's actually a pretty nice theory.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That's actually a pretty nice theory.

Thanks! =D

 

[Commander Troi]

Here's "My Head Canon" on 'Money' within the UFP:

Money in the UFP never went away, it was just left as a "Digital Form" of currency for many centuries.
The Federation Credits that we see & hear about is the only form of "Universal Currency" that is truly considered "Universal" across the UFP since you can use it on ANY member world within the UFP & all of it's allies/protectorates.
The primary reason for "Digital Only" currency was because the advent of rapid manufacturing & replicators made counterfeiting of traditional "Physical Currency" WAY too easy.
Digital Currency also gives Governments more Power/Control over currency and where it goes by monitoring it and putting locks on it should somebody misuse their funds, the government/banks can freeze their accounts.
That was one of the "Ulterior Motives" behind going pure Digital Currency.
Unfortunately, due to the 'Early Rapid Additive Manufacturing that leads to the eventual Replicator Revolution', Digital Currency became the default solution due to the massive counterfeiting that was going on.

Part of the reason that StarFleet Officers don't worry about Currency is that they get paid in Federation Credits, but they generally don't use Credits while participating in service as a StarFleet Officer.
All Acommodations, Food, Items, Knowledge, Transportation, etc are provided to StarFleet Officers w/o having to be part of the greater UFP Economic System.
Thanks to Replicator Technology and StarFleet as a Organization being 100% Vertically Integrated, they have their own Supply Chain to run their operations and take care of everything, including long term payments for the Work / Service of their Officers.

That's why Beverly Crusher was able to pay for the "Bolt of Gold Fabric" and have it charged to her account on the Enterprise-D.
Verbal Confirmation along with Video Footage allowed automated charging of her digital account.
The entire financial process is seemless / frustration free.
Also, she rarely needs to buy things from outside vendors, so she's flush with Federation Credits.
Thanks to her history as a top level doctor, her joining the "Mariposas" and her nomadic life style allows her to function as part of "Doctors w/o Borders".
The Mariposa Foundation even gives her the SS Eleos XII to operate out of on a semi-permenant use basis w/o charge as long as she functions as a Doctor for their organization.
That's why she's able to live her life in a nomadic life-style as a Doctor & raise Jack Crusher as a single-mother.

Anways, back to Physical Currency, it didn't make a return until relatively recently (Late 24th / Early 25th Century).
The Ferengi is on the path to join the UFP thanks to Grand Nagus Rom & Captain Carol Freeman helping to (show/prove) that the (UFP/StarFleet) isn't filled with "a bunch of Suckers & Rubes" for people.
They of course eventually join sometime in the (Late 24th / Early 25th Century).
Captain Carol Freeman's Picture is immortalized in UFP/StarFleet history when the Ferengi first signed the documents to join the UFP as an example of a truly cunning & wise human that convinced Grand Nagus Rom that it's worth it for the Ferengi Alliance to join into the UFP.

Thanks to the eventual new UFP members, "The Ferengi Alliance"; their help within the UFP bring back Standardized Physical Currency in the form of a new "Latinum based/embeded Physical Currency".
The Physical form of Currency based on "Latinum Embedment" into the Physical Currency itself makes it "Impossible to CounterFeit".
Beyond the requirement to embed the appropriate amount of Latinum inside each piece of physical currency, there are other "Anti-CounterFeit" measures in place.
"Simple Tech" like embedded RFID chips within the Physical Currency that contains a Encrypted Unique Serial # / Date of Manufacture of each piece of Physical Currency helps to make sure nobody can CounterFeit w/o detection.
So somebody else trying to put extra Latinum into the wider Currency Supply chain is detectable since there is a Universal Government Run database of every currency ever created (Physical/Digital)
The RFID chips allow it to be traced along its journey thanks to retail outlets who check if the currency is valid during the Check-Out / Payment process.
Any form of excess CounterFeit currency that is detected will be removed and financial investigators will be sent to find out who CounterFeit the currency by making their own Latinum based Currency and try to infliltrate the total supply of money. With a Government Backed Universal Database, the total supply of currency has been kept relatively fixed.
Basically all "Digital Federation Credits" are a 1:1 asset representation to the "UFP Physical Currency".

This makes physical currency available & Financial Privacy available to individuals again; something people have opined for years, but was never able to solve on a wide scale.
All Currency is "Heavily Regulated" along with a UFP Government Law to prevent Inflation / Deflation of the value of currency.
This way, the value of each unit of currency stays constant and adjust to the size of the population and the actual wealth of the economy so that each persons buying power remains fixed per unit of currency, no matter the time frame or location within the UFP and it's sphere of influence.

That and many other forms of Legal Financial regulation prevent the "Roller Coaster" ride of a financial system that we see in Pre-23rd century Humanity and traditional Ferengi society.
After that, most of the economy is generally very stable and there are little to no financial issues within 99.9% of UFP Core Member Worlds that are heavily populated and aren't part of the expanding frontier colonies.
Also, modern UFP Physical Currency is designed after the Metric Standard, so every unit of Currency that increases in value is exactly 10x the previous unit.
Everybody loves the Metric System, even StarDates are "Metric Time" based.

Unfortunately, the only hold-outs from using the Metric System as their "Primary Form" of units of measure are the Americans on Earth and most other Alien Member Species within the UFP.
They have a Dual Measurement System where they learn both their customary species form of "Units of Measure" that co-exist with the "Metric System", just like the Americans on Earth.

Very well thought out!

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Very well thought out!

Thanks

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I wonder if there are some species, like Pakleds, that are like bucket list entries for prime directive breaking assistance.

So if a person or group who wants to break the prime directive (someone who isn't necessarily bound by it by virtue of who they serve - so a non-Starfleet vigilante), they compile a list of species who could use some stuff and what they don't have, like a gift registry wishlist:

"We haven't interfered with the Pakleds yet, let's give them something." "How about slinkies? They don't have slinkies yet."

Or perhaps there's a species of editors who shows up every so often to revise history or clean up messes and errors.

 

[B.J.]

Or perhaps there's a species of editors who shows up every so often to revise history or clean up messes and errors.

Well there was, but the Krenim got a little too overzealous.

 

[Farscape One]

Maybe the Krenim do it later. For all we know, they are the reason the Temporal Cold War started to begin with.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Well there was, but the Krenim got a little too overzealous.

Perhaps revision without using time travel, this time. Rewriting the books and hoping everyone forgets they and the reality they depict was different.

 

[B.J.]

Maybe the Krenim do it later. For all we know, they are the reason the Temporal Cold War started to begin with.

I wouldn't be surprised. Even after the reset, Krenim Forman still had the temporal research.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I wonder if there are some species, like Pakleds, that are like bucket list entries for prime directive breaking assistance.

So if a person or group who wants to break the prime directive (someone who isn't necessarily bound by it by virtue of who they serve - so a non-Starfleet vigilante), they compile a list of species who could use some stuff and what they don't have, like a gift registry wishlist:

"We haven't interfered with the Pakleds yet, let's give them something." "How about slinkies? They don't have slinkies yet."

Or perhaps there's a species of editors who shows up every so often to revise history or clean up messes and errors.

I think the Prime Directive applies primarily to StarFleet & any Governmental Agency that is directly/in-directly attached to the UFP.

Federation Citizens are a different matter, but there might be UFP laws about UFP Citizens interacting with primitive civilizations.

Sort of like how the Government of India forbids people to interact with the "North Sentinel Island".

They're incredibly primitive, and nobody is to venture to their Island for various reasons.

If somebody chooses to do so, they are on their own.

 

[FredH]

Klingons love Terran wuxia movies. Sometimes dubbed into the original Klingon! In fact, spreading awareness of them was one of many factors that gradually made alliance with the humans at least thinkable.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Klingons love Terran wuxia movies

What are wuxia movies?

 

[FredH]

What are wuxia movies?

Wuxia - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[cooleddie74]

Trelane actually did see Napoleon and Alexander Hamilton 900 years after both men lived because when he first saw them he had been temporarily taken by his parents into our future, the 28th century, then returned "home" to the 23rd to make Gothos and his castle home on it.

 

[Commander Troi]

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In keeping with the naming practice that gave us "Bunnicorn", the Alfa 177 canine is a canineoceros.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Having become a big time Liverpool FC fan within the last year....I'm firmly of the mind that Vulcans are huge soccer fans.

I mean, think about it. Vulcan clubs in the Premier League? ShiKahr FC versus Vulcana Regar United? "You'll Never Walk Alone, because that would be illogical"? The awesomeness would be off the charts.

Never mind pon farr....soccer is when Vulcans get REALLY emotional. No matter how much they might claim to be emotionally controlled....when ShiKahr FC's forward gets his first Red Card, THAT"S when they really see green.

 

[Henoch]

Trelane actually did see Napoleon and Alexander Hamilton 900 years after both men lived because when he first saw them he had been temporarily taken by his parents into our future, the 28th century, then returned "home" to the 23rd to make Gothos and his castle home on it.

Simpler scenario: Trelane camped his mobile planet about 450 light years from Earth (~2266 minus ~450 puts you at ~1816) and observed cia 1800 England/France. Having a noble 1800 gentleman living in a 450 year old castle would not be uncommon, hence we see 900 year old items in the 1800's. Later, Trelane encounters the Enterprise in the Earth year ~2266 but has moved to about 900 light years from Earth. KISS.

 

[cooleddie74]

See? There's always a workaround!

 

[FredH]

The various godlike-power aliens, Q included? All of them began as normal lifeforms that, at some point, reached the Galactic Barrier and were powered up — usually leading to a period of “selfish gods”, followed by the incorporation of these powers into whatever the species had become by the end of all that. Of course Q thinks humanity is a savage, childlike race — who wasn’t, at their stage? He looks at us and sees the Q’s own ugly origins as a million id-liberated Gary Mitchell types.