[edh]

“I can remember an episode where Picard told someone that there was no money”

True, but in the very first STTNG episode, Dr. Crusher bought some rug (or something) on that Farpoint planet and requested that “credits be transferred from her account” :-) .

Also, you can’t have socialism/communism w/o the social engineering ... of course, they’ll probably tweak Star Trek to show how the schools of the future handle that :-).

Then again, the more I think about it, Leningrad did exist in Star Trek IV ... :-) ... I guess I am completely wrong as only filthy, red scum would revive the name of that tyrant.

[Captain Peter Blood]

There you go, the lack of consistency with the show itself. The writers, etc., want a Utopian Future without Money, Capitalism , etc. but can't figure out how to make it work.

Even Russia had to have some sort of currency to function.

The Liberals going back to Jonathon Swift and “Gulliver's Travels”, have been trying to find a way for a Utopian Collective to work, didn't work then, won't work now and surely will not work in the future.

Hey remember the Ferengi, their whole society was based on a kind Capitalism and Mercantilism.

[freedumb2003]

>>“I can remember an episode where Picard told someone that there was no money”

True, but in the very first STTNG episode, Dr. Crusher bought some rug (or something) on that Farpoint planet and requested that “credits be transferred from her account” :-) .<<

The issue of “is there money in the ST universe” is extensive. I t gets best explored in an episode of DS9 where Jake and Nog discuss it at some length.

It turns out many if not most species use some form of money. Humans and Vulcans seem to work for the hell of it with no compensation. Physical things are pretty easy to come by (thanks to replicators and holo-suites).

I think in that Universe most intelligent men would blow their brains out from sheer boredom.