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Phasers set to "Bitch please" (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] emptyother 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I could see that being the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future; that was an invention of “The Voyage Home”, which Roddenberry had no involvement with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't care, I was just refuting "Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future" because it's categorically untrue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

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