How did money work on deep space 9? (endlesstalk.org)

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Whenever there's a storyline with quark, they talk about money/latinum.

I remember in one of the next gen episodes that there was discussion about money and Picard said something about how they've moved away from money.

So do Starfleet get paid now?

Update: thank you for the quick responses. From what I'm gathering the tldr is that the following is the answer

Ferengi love for money/not being a post scarcity society by design
Bajorans being so near their slavery times and not post scarcity yet
Quark creating an atmosphere of camaraderie/gambling/upgraded replicators/actual food

All this requires some form of currency.

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[-] startrek@hub.hubzilla.de 1 points 10 months ago

By the way: is it possible order a glass of Chateau Picard at the replicator?

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 10 months ago

Probably? But it'll be synthehol based so as to not interfere with starfleet duties.

Seems every time somebody needs to get shitfaced (or just moderately buzzed) they have to get hold of some physical/analog contraband.

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