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UnKillShredDur said:
(Not gonna lie, I don't really understand how Quark's business works when most of his would-be paying customers don't believe in the concept of money.)
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It became clear over the course of tng and ds9 that the "no money" thing is more an affectation of the core federation and Starfleet, rather than a universal trait of the federation as a whole. Less fortunate worlds, lower social classes, and those less ideologically attached to the federation ideal still use some form of currency.

It's never mentioned on screen, but on the promenade set, there's a latinum dispenser opposite quark's place that was apparently intended for use by federation officers. Federation citizens are often seen using currency, or trading in ways that imply actual economic activity rather than just hobbyists playing at merchant. Reading between the lines, there's an implication that the federation is rich as shit and that Starfleet funds quite lavish lifestyles for its officer corps, and even for its enlisted personnel.
 
40 Year Old Boomer said:
You can't properly replicate Klingon food as most of it is still alive when served. Also, singing Klingon chef deserved more than just two appearances.
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Tilly so fat the Klingon chef went to fulfill her order and still hasn't come back.
 
Tilly is so fat that in any emergency situation requiring physical fitness she is an active danger to cause the death of herself and other members of the crew.
 
Tilly so fat, the rape alien from TNG got her pregnant and nobody noticed.
 
"We don't have money in the future" was a joke from Star Trek IV. It never should have gone beyond that. McCoy had money for a charter in III and Scottie bought a boat in VI. Even in IV, when Kirk said, "They're still using money," it was obvious he was referring to currency. But "no money" somehow got folded into the 24th century Terrans' crackpot philosophy of self-improvement (but don't improve your genes!). Picard will raid alien graves for office knick-knacks, and his family possesses an obscene amount of land--even as Terrans are so desperate for more land they're trying to raise a new continent from the ocean floor--but the idea of a working man saving up a few quatloos to improve his family's lifestyle is deeply offensive to him. It's nuts.
 
indomitable snowman said:
Maybe WW3 killed all the Jewish bankers and ended fiat money so they refer to it as something else in the future.
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I thought they were just driven off planet...
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UnKillShredDur said:
2. As has been formerly mentioned, but Guinan and Quark have a limited quantity of the real stuff. They'd presumably have more of if it if the demand was there. (Not gonna lie, I don't really understand how Quark's business works when most of his would-be paying customers don't believe in the concept of money.)
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I'd imagine anyone into buying contraband (like Romulan ale) would have a means of doing it. After all, that's something illegal everyone does. I'd imagine they pay with whatever Ferengi like, like gold-pressed latinum or some kind of scrip denominated in it.
Fatsuit Shinji said:
If Picard was a proper teafag, he would've have boiling vessels and real tea in his office and quarters.
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I believe he actually does and that we've seen it at some point. But he also wants it on the bridge.

This is an edit, but it is from scenes from the show. He has multiple teasets.
 
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The only character that looked interesting to me in Discovery was Kayla Detmer.

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But apparently they do FUCKALL with her character because she isn't a strong Black Female Captain.
 
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