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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   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.   
      
      
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