09-14-2019, 05:53 AM | #101 | |
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Re: Star Trek: The Rebel Generation
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09-14-2019, 09:21 AM | #102 |
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Re: Star Trek: The Rebel Generation
It sounds to me like that old irritating prejudice of warriors against people who have to pay extortion to them.
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09-14-2019, 09:27 AM | #103 |
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Except that the Federation is supposedly not a warrior culture. It's more the philosopher's disdain for merchants - which of course goes back a long long way as well.
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09-14-2019, 12:31 PM | #104 |
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Re: Star Trek: The Rebel Generation
And good luck getting the Ferengi in any series to pay the Federation anything - the implication was more, I think, that since the Federation were rich and didn't take money as seriously as the Ferengi did, when the Ferengi once started negotiating the boot tended to be on the other foot.
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09-15-2019, 03:40 PM | #105 |
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Re: Star Trek: The Rebel Generation
A lot of the "Founding Fathers" of the Fed came from a background of endless war. The Vulcans and Andorians know what that is like.
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09-17-2019, 09:19 AM | #106 | |
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No aliens to woo, however - the modifications were to prevent humanity from wiping itself out, which was pretty much the Genocide Initiative’s whole raison d’etre.
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09-17-2019, 01:14 PM | #107 |
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Re: Star Trek: The Rebel Generation
The Federation does pay the Ferenghi for goods and services in the currency of their economy. But that doesn't mean that Gold Pressed Latinum has any currency value inside of the Federation.
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09-24-2019, 10:47 PM | #108 | ||
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They might be said to have a spoiled aristocrat's disdain for commerce.
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