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emptyother@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ll bet (without knowing for sure) Roddenberry’s idea of the Federation didnt start out as a police state. But like with currency, it is hard for many writers to imagine humanity evolving past the need for policing our own and enforcing laws.

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USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future; that was an invention of “The Voyage Home”, which Roddenberry had no involvement with.

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- pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Ronald D. Moore commented, “By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did ‘credits’ and that was that.”
  
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  - USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” - release date: 26 November 1986
    “Encounter at Farpoint” - original air date: 28 September 1987
    “The Bonding” - the first episode of TNG Ronald D. Moore wrote, and sold as a spec script before getting hired as part of the writing staff, original air date: 23 October 1989
    
    There is plenty of references to money in TOS, and not merely as a figure of speech.
    
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    pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t care, I was just refuting “Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future” because it’s categorically untrue.
    
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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I could see that being the case.

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