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<blockquote data-quote="JacktheRabbit" data-source="post: 920726" data-attributes="member: 525">1. The term is called banana currency and describes money from places like the Old Soviet Union. The money is completely useless outside the country because the government enforces an artificial exchange rate that makes the money meaningless outside the territory.2. The pursuit of riches comment is just dumb coming from Star Trek. According to Troi there is no longer sickness, greed, war, or poverty. Yet time and time again we see all of those items. DS9 showed us criminal organizations full of humans, STNG showed us entire human colonies that degenerated into utter anarchy (Tasha Yar's homeworld). In DS9 we saw Starfleet officers join the Maqui and become terrorists and we saw a Starfleet admiral on Earth try to take over Starfleet.Basically try looking at what HAPPENS in Star Trek as opposed to the statements (which are little more than propoganda) made by people on the show and are in fact quite often and quite easily contradicted by the show itself.The Federation is a totalitarian communist state who gives little freedom to its people and holds absolute authority over everyone who lives under it, even people like the Baku in Insurrection were under the &quot;authority&quot; of the Federation even though they were not members of the Federation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JacktheRabbit, post: 920726, member: 525"] 1. The term is called banana currency and describes money from places like the Old Soviet Union. The money is completely useless outside the country because the government enforces an artificial exchange rate that makes the money meaningless outside the territory. 2. The pursuit of riches comment is just dumb coming from Star Trek. According to Troi there is no longer sickness, greed, war, or poverty. Yet time and time again we see all of those items. DS9 showed us criminal organizations full of humans, STNG showed us entire human colonies that degenerated into utter anarchy (Tasha Yar's homeworld). In DS9 we saw Starfleet officers join the Maqui and become terrorists and we saw a Starfleet admiral on Earth try to take over Starfleet. Basically try looking at what HAPPENS in Star Trek as opposed to the statements (which are little more than propoganda) made by people on the show and are in fact quite often and quite easily contradicted by the show itself. The Federation is a totalitarian communist state who gives little freedom to its people and holds absolute authority over everyone who lives under it, even people like the Baku in Insurrection were under the "authority" of the Federation even though they were not members of the Federation. [/QUOTE]

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