I’m glad there is no money in the Federation. Unless you count credits. Which are not money. Unless you use thousands of them to pay the Barzans. Or give them to Starfleet officers to buy things like tribbles and drinks at Quark’s.

  • Lemmeenym@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I suppose you could add the detail that the Federation was actually agreeing to provide a certain amount of energy to the Barzans.

    That’s pretty much what I was saying, maybe I didn’t say it well.

    A Federation credit is a right to use a certain amount of energy on a Federation replecator. So if a non Federation group wanted to get 10k self sealing stem bolts from the Federation then Starfleet would look up the energy requirement to replicate the stem bolts and divide that by how much energy is represented by one credit and that’s how many credits the group would have to use to get the stem bolts.