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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 920003" data-attributes="member: 509">Just a note: It was never stated in FC that the UFP didn't have money, just that it wasn't the goal of man to achieve it anymore. It was in DS9 that the absense of money came into play, but that may just as easily been seen as the absense of Gold Plated Latinum. Both in TNG and DS9 we see UFP citizens engaging in trade (usually by bartering though) or talking about buying a thing or another. In TOS there were numerous references to Federation money and that the Enterprise and everything aboard had cost Starfleet a lot of money.So I'd say that the UFP had a credit system that's incompatible outside of the UFP but that Earth society (I dunno about other members) does not revolve around the pursuit of riches anymore.</blockquote>