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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Star Fleet officers literally cheated and probably replicated money.
Can you imagine how much inflation was caused on planets with currency when Star Fleet opened a base and flooded the economy with billions in phony money?
Also going back to Quark, A big part of the reason why that character works is because Armin Shimmerman is just a amazing character actor. He's played some just iconic roles for me and he takes over shows.
Quark, Principal Schneider in Buffy (just watch Band Canday),
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Why wouldn't you?
Its like the Starfleet Comm badges, I think it was in Time's Arrow where the precious metals and Gold in the Comm badges was incredibly valuable but to the uninitiated but like 'meh' to Starfleet officers. "You want it? We've got a storage room stacked with these things!"
It reminds me of an article I read ages ago about examining other worlds via telescope or charting Asteroids etc. The Galaxy is immense. The sheer volume of Natural Resources available is effectively inconceivable. The only thing that drives value is scarcity and the only reason for scarcity is because we cant get to those resources.
I read a report many, many years ago that DeBeers has enormous vaults around the world stacked to the brim with Diamonds. They've got tons and tons.
But releasing that amount of supply would crash the market. So they hoard it creating a false scarcity.