Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1x05 Babel

It would be a form of aphasia, usually a symptom of a stroke or other brain damage.

ETA: Uh, yeah, what they just said. :smiley:

EATA: Normally, it would only be a speech disorder. Reading and writing are completely separate processes in the brain.

I mean, in the grand scheme of things. Replicators up to this point were fairly standard technology everywhere. Why pay for food at a bar if you could just ask for what you want at any replicator?

I wonder if replicators can create any chemical element or does it just reassemble elements into different molecules and then objects.

Sneaky Odo.

Rom is an idiot? Hmm…in later seasons that’s not true.
He’s an engineer right?

Wasn’t Rom generally underestimated, though? Just like Nog, for a time.

“How’d you figure it out?”
“You said Rom fixed your replicators.”
“Yeah?”
“Rom’s an idiot.” :smiley:

Replicators can reproduce basically everything except latinum and bio-mimetic gel, which is why they’re used as currency.

in the pattern generator…
materialization subroutine, biofilters blah blah

Hmm…Yes, I thnk you’re right.

let’s just be honest. the economics of star trek are a bit odd

In the script it would say (INSERT TECH HERE)

:slight_smile: DS9 is my favorite in the franchise

“No one could be that devious.”
“I am.” :smiley:

oh, Quark. show us your deviousness.

Wow Alice’s hair is terrible

for the record I’m still horrified by the nurse uniform

oh Quark, playing Dabo all alone? sigh.

Fundemently I think the Star Trek universe as a reality is too good to be true.
But, if you make the assumption that all things work out to get to that point the point of advanced civilization as depicted in Star Trek then I think that, yes, you WOULD reach a point were there is either no need for money or else is a very trivial tool.

Think about present day and a Teflon no-stick frying pan.

If you had to gather the materials, design and build a frying pan it would be INCREDIBLY expensive and difficult to do yourself.
But because we live in a sophisticated society, with trade and laws and coinage and advanced manufacturer and mass production and sophisticated retail infrastructure you can do something incredible:
You can go to the store and buy a frying pan for only about $12!!
Even better you could order it online and get it without leaving your home.

Fast forward that sort of progress say 200 or 300 years? Then, yeah, money is so trivial that it almost doesn’t exist.

Sorry for the ramble, but it’s something that I’ve been thinking about re: the Star Trek money situation. :slight_smile:

Clothing and hair? You’re such a girl :wink:

the thing economically that is off here is that the Federation doesn’t use currency anymore… but lots of people they work with do.

c’mon, you totally noticed them too.