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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 8/21/2022 12:25 PM, A Friend wrote:   
   > In article , BTR1701   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >>   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 8/21/2022 7:41 AM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>> On Aug 21, 2022 at 4:19:32 AM PDT, "A Friend"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In article , BTR1701   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>    This doesn't even get into the Ferengi and their whole latinum-based   
   >>>>>> economy,   
   >>>>>>    in which no small number of Federation people seemed to participate.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> We know from Kirk's dialogue in Mudd's Women (I think) that the   
   >>>>> Enterprise carries gold for trading purposes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hell, the Enterprise doesn't need to carry gold. The Enterprise could just   
   >>>> replicate it as needed. We were told on DS9 that's why gold-pressed   
   >>>> latinum   
   >>>> has value-- because there's something about its atomic structure that   
   >>>> won't   
   >>>> allow it to be replicated.   
   >>>>   
   >>> TOS Enterprise did not have replicators.   
   >>   
   >> Well, they had something that hummed and produced their food out of   
   >> nothing for them.   
   >   
   >   
   > They once showed a snack being transported from the galley to the   
   > transporter room.  They never showed food being created out of nothing.   
      
   And also showed Kirk speaking to the ship's cook about at least shaping   
   the food to look like a turkey in one episode.  ;)   
      
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