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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Yes, Voyager was pointless and stupid- such amazing potential for drama pissed away in favor of the TNG syndication format. I think there must be dozens, if not hundreds of colonized and setteled worlds in the UFP- certainly a mix of races and species though- no "humans only" worlds, though a given race's homeworld is always dominated by that species- Andor, Vulcan, etc. Each world might develop it's own unique culture and dialect (translators would fix that, but it's a pride thing- like Europe). If anything were to bring down the UFP, I think it would be civil war- some grouping of outer territory worlds catches intolerant religion or decides to monopolize a vital resource their worlds have exclusively and break away. Somehow I dont think that would lead to warfare though- at least not untill the seperatists start building fleets of ships or strike alliances with UFP hostile stellar empires (Breen, Romulans, whatever). [QUOTE]Originally posted by Fabrux: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb]And on DS9 (which I was watching again from the start) Jake (in [i]Explorers[/i]) mentions "a month's supply of transporter credits"- so it seems that, despite unlimited energy and no monetary system, there is some give and take.[/qb][/QUOTE]Perhaps life on a far-flung frontier outpost is a little different than a planet-bound assignment; energy resources would be rationed, I'd think. [/qb][/QUOTE]Totally right but it was Sisko relating how homesick he got when he started Starfleet Academy and how he transported home every night for a week dinner and sleep- Jake replies with "You must have used a month worth of transporter credits!" My bad for not explaining more clearly. So, taking taht into consideration, a month of credits would be what? Fifteen credits maybe? Not too shabby if the world population is maybe three or four billion (for sustainibility reasons and the allure of life offworld). That's a hell of a lot of power and an unimaginable amount of computer power if there's (potentially) sixty billion transports going on [i]monthly![/i] That's 720 billion transports every year, and if only one in a million ends in death, that's a hell of a lot of funerals each year. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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