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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormprince" data-source="post: 125541" data-attributes="member: 2046">For most societies, at least those that are primary members of the United Federation of Planets, you're absolutely correct. However, many of the societies that are not members of the Federation don't have access to the replicator technology... and the Ferengi deal with both sides. Latinum is a primary way for them to make money (cold, hard currency as opposed to numbers in a databank that can easily be manipulated by those with the proper skills). The Ferengi aren't part of the Federation of Planets, though they have a lot of dealings with them.Granted, I am FAR from a Star Trek expert (hell, to put things in perspective, I actually liked Voyager <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ), so I could possibly be blowing smoke out of my... EARS... but what I do remember is that Latinum can't be counterfited, which is why it becomes so precious in the future.And note: I'm just a fan, not the creator of the ST Universe, so I have no idea, this is just an opinion formed on what I do know <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />- Christopher</blockquote>

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