gwalchmai Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I've been watching ST:TNG reruns this week and have run into a couple of references to their "post-currency economy". The theory is that once replicators become common no one will use currency since every consumer good will be available to everyone ("according to their needs", I guess). But what about services? How do you entice someone to perform a service if you have nothing to offer them? I asked my son about it and he essentially fell back on the "people will work because they love the work" mantra. I guess I need Ocassional Cortex to 'splain it to me... 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I bet the price of a replicator was thought the roof ? one of the shows on TNG had someone ask that question. Riker said the Enterprise cleaned itself. he didn’t explain why or how but it was an easy dodge . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbie18 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I'm a big Star Trek fan, but I don't think their version of an economy would ever work. The lazy welfare moochers of society would sit around all day replicating whatever they wanted. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, kerbie18 said: I'm a big Star Trek fan, but I don't think their version of an economy would ever work. The lazy welfare moochers of society would sit around all day replicating whatever they wanted. Or chasing Minuet through the holodeck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minderasr Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Wouldn't you have to pay for the energy to run the replicator? Or are dilithium crystals freely available to all? Maybe the replicator replicates the dilithium crystals it requires to run. Cold fusion! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 34 minutes ago, minderasr said: Wouldn't you have to pay for the energy to run the replicator? Or are dilithium crystals freely available to all? Maybe the replicator replicates the dilithium crystals it requires to run. Cold fusion! Maybe a replicator can replicate another replicator does that violate Asimovs Law or something . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 This is one meshuga conversation: Star Trek poop? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minderasr Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, Moshe said: This is one meshuga conversation: Star Trek poop? Warp speed on Taco Tuesdays! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 44 minutes ago, minderasr said: Wouldn't you have to pay for the energy to run the replicator? Or are dilithium crystals freely available to all? Maybe the replicator replicates the dilithium crystals it requires to run. Cold fusion! I'm sure it's explained (somewhere) that by then energy will be too cheap to meter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I suppose you could track down the technical experts who would inset [Tech Stuff] into the script that was later filled in. Or, if you're truly interested in the bathroom habits of the actors, you could contact Patrick Stuart, as Patrick Stuart is Patrick Stuart's favorite person, and would probably tell you his bathroom schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Moshe said: This is one meshuga conversation: Star Trek poop? Where’s Hannie Edited December 23, 2018 by Dric902 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdTracker Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I thought scrubbing plasma conduits was considered a punishment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Fiction the only place where socialism works. 5 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 On the TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Yes, there was a TV version made as a serial, and a movie version), civilization advanced to the point that they got selective about their citizens. They decided to get rid of the pay phone cleaners. These were the guys that went from pay phone to pay phone disinfecting the handsets. Society decided that they were the least necessary of all, and they made up a story that the world was going to end, and sent the pay phone cleaners on an intergalactic voyage to no where, just to get rid of them. The world was overtaken by a plague that killed almost everybody. It is said that the plague started by the lack of disinfection of pay phones. The pay phone cleaners survived and started a new civilization on a new planet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moeman Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Poop Klingons on the butt wiped too? Anyway, ultrasonic is the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Moshe said: This is one meshuga conversation: Star Trek poop? Hannie will be here shortly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moeman Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Like to see 7 of 9 in a French maid outfit, would watch that forevermore. Been going thru deep space 9 again the last couple seasons to me are the best Star Trek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbie18 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, Moeman said: Like to see 7 of 9 in a French maid outfit, would watch that forevermore. Been going thru deep space 9 again the last couple seasons to me are the best Star Trek. The fleet battles towards the end of deep space nine kicked ass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 2 hours ago, janice6 said: On the TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Yes, there was a TV version made as a serial, and a movie version), civilization advanced to the point that they got selective about their citizens. They decided to get rid of the pay phone cleaners. These were the guys that went from pay phone to pay phone disinfecting the handsets. Society decided that they were the least necessary of all, and they made up a story that the world was going to end, and sent the pay phone cleaners on an intergalactic voyage to no where, just to get rid of them. The world was overtaken by a plague that killed almost everybody. It is said that the plague started by the lack of disinfection of pay phones. The pay phone cleaners survived and started a new civilization on a new planet. It was in the second book of the series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Czervik Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 hours ago, gwalchmai said: I've been watching ST:TNG reruns this week and have run into a couple of references to their "post-currency economy". The theory is that once replicators become common no one will use currency since every consumer good will be available to everyone ("according to their needs", I guess). But what about services? How do you entice someone to perform a service if you have nothing to offer them? I asked my son about it and he essentially fell back on the "people will work because they love the work" mantra. I guess I need Ocassional Cortex to 'splain it to me... I think illegal immigrants to the federation and Ferengis cleaned the loos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 hours ago, gwalchmai said: I've been watching ST:TNG reruns this week and have run into a couple of references to their "post-currency economy". The theory is that once replicators become common no one will use currency since every consumer good will be available to everyone ("according to their needs", I guess). But what about services? How do you entice someone to perform a service if you have nothing to offer them? I asked my son about it and he essentially fell back on the "people will work because they love the work" mantra. I guess I need Ocassional Cortex to 'splain it to me... Alex Occasional Cortex would say that in the perfect Socialist economy people will work at whatever job they're given because the government would know what job was best for everyone. But don't ask Alex any questions about science fiction because her field of expertise is economic fiction and not science fiction, and definitely not anything having to do with science or mathematics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 On one of the early Star Trek movies, can't remember which one, Kirk and Spock were walking down a passageway and in the background is someone buffing the deck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Cougar_ml said: It was in the second book of the series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Dirk Gentley's Detective Agency on Hulu is pretty good too. I had read Hitchhiker's and watched both movie versions. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Moshe said: Dirk Gentley's Detective Agency on Hulu is pretty good too. I had read Hitchhiker's and watched both movie versions. In the TV version they were on the Improbability drive space ship watching the Galactic News about the President stealing the ship. "....Eccentrica Gallumbits is the far-famed triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six. Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Ford Prefect disagrees, saying five.[1] It is possible that the Big Bang was actually one of her orgasms. She wrote The Big Bang Theory - A Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits and It's Just One Boob After Another. It was reported that Zaphod Beeblebrox, whom she described as "the best bang since the Big One," had delivered a presidential address from her bedroom on at least one occasion...." https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Eccentrica_Gallumbits Edited December 23, 2018 by janice6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Moeman said: Like to see 7 of 9 in a French maid outfit, would watch that forevermore. Been going thru deep space 9 again the last couple seasons to me are the best Star Trek. I'd like to see her out of the outfit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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