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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Yakaspat The Trekker: [QB] Personnally, I have always thought of the Fed Public Transit System like this: Transporters are found in every city, or near every major public utility/rec area/etc. I think a Transporter Center would be as common as US Post Offices. Every little town has one, and in between you have little private run establishments, like Mail Boxes Etc. So, in every city you have a free to the public government run Transport Center, which would have a person there operating it like on the show. Then, you may have many other small Transport Centers, like Transporters Etc., located near stadiums, parks, train stations, etc. These would be fee based, costing a couple credits. At the Starfleet Academy, each student gets an allotment of "transporter credits", and can use these at his or her (or its) discretion to transport home, go on a short trip to Jamiaca, or whatever. This is what Sisko was talking about. Then, for short trips within or between cities, you have maglift trains and hover cars. This is what we saw when Kim was walking down the street and what we saw in All Good Things at Cambridge (or whatever school that was). There are also aircars, for fast transit across continents, for those who don't want to get there instantly for whatever reason. Perhaps it is free to transport up to so many times a month, but after that the government begins to charge you (to pay for the system...they still cost *money*, or power (the two are interchangable), to operate). For that reason, people wouldn't just beam around all the time. There would be a finite source of power for every to beam about, so the government would place cost-restrictions on the populace. This would force the general public to use the maglev and the air transit system. Of course, the rich folks, whatever that means in a Utopian society, would and probably could have their own pad installed in their garage. Why not? Michael Jackson has a theme park and most stars have their own jets! That's just my two cents... Lance TheTrekker's Officer's Bible [URL=http://www.thetrekker.org]www.thetrekker.org[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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