Comment on Phasers set to "Bitch please"

• 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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      • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He didn’t imagine it. He just took the ball and ran with it.

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