[Locke]

This is something that I always found interesting, the whole Star Trek 'no money' concept was always inherently flawed, but in true Trekkian fashion they deftly danced around it whenever it was brought up.

I mean...there were times on away missions where the TNG crew go into a bar...they gotta pay with something because there might not be money on earth but there is here!

And if you can replicate anything, why not replicate latinum?

Ditto with DS9 and Quark's and the Ferengi.

It made more sense in Star Wars that there has to be money because Star Wars was always the antithesis of Trek in which its dirtier, grittier and more realistic and less utopian.

The economics of it absolutely make no goddamned sense, that requires suspension of disbelief because realistically the cost of a single Star Destroyer would be astronomical and a Death Star? Unthinkable. I mean, do Stormtroopers get paid? When would they even have time to spend the money?

I cannot even fathom the type of Taxation department that would be required to collect Galactic taxes, it would require it's own planet.

I mean...they'd have to build a second Death Star just to house all of the Accountants from the Galactic Revenue Service and it would show up to planets whose taxes are in arrears. The Collections department are in charge of the superlaser.

You can go down that rabbit hole forever for fun but the end result is always the same, it dont make no goddamned sense and you just throw your hands in the air and roll with it.