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CBS declared it canon in the mid 2000s as part of promoting the DVD release. And the creator of Lower Decks (and CBS) has said LDS is canon.

I honestly thought the Badgey episode was going to be your lowest ranked just because of the violence.
Meanwhile I thought Veritas was one of the most fun episodes.

I'm not sure how censoring the swearing is hypocrisy. This is a different creative team, different writers, different producers and a different medium altogether.

The beeping is for comedic effect, and I honestly find that funnier than not censoring it.

Regarding the registries, Mike has said the California class has been around for a long time (yes we've never seen it before but that doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't existed tucked out of the way just off camera), it's possible it's a class that is constantly refitted/upgraded or rebuilt.

I'm curious how you're going to sort the new ships and species in Lower Decks, their own section like TAS?

According Mcmahan that was a completely coincidence, he had no idea Picard was doing that.

That's not too far from my estimation of a bit less than 600m, assuming 20 decks of 4 meters height.

Eaglemoss has listed the length of the Inquiry at 630.94

Which is interesting, according to the STO devs, CBS didn’t have a number for them. I wonder if eaglemoss calculated this themselves, or CBS came up with one later.

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Some very good thoughts here. We have all the evidence that no money in a traditional sense exists, that all essential things in life are for free but some form of currency still exists for accounting and for trade. This, plus the idea that socialism may work once there is no scarcity of common goods. I like your analogies!

This is of course pure speculation on my part, but this really depends on how you define 'money'. Obviously, the only person who really knows is Gene Roddenberry, but since he isn’t around to tell us, here is my take on it, based on a real world precedent.

The Federation is a mostly post-scarcity economy and doesn’t use money. However, some goods and services are limited due to scarcity or energy requirements. This is why we hear about “replicator rations” and “transporter rations”.

Like I said, there is a real world precedent which I strongly suspect the Federation’s finances are based on.

Behold the replicator/transporter ration:

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This is one Soviet ruble as used within the USSR. This isn’t money; this is more like company scrip. You could buy food, clothes, booze, pay utilities, pay for transportation, in some cases even buy the right to use (not own) real estate for personal purposes. You certainly couldn’t buy anything remotely similar to means of production, such as industrial machines, trucks or aircraft. Nor could you buy land or buildings, although you could use rubles to pay lease for these. You could certainly not buy foreign currency (as a matter of fact, this was a crime with rather harsh sentences), so this “currency” was not convertible. And of course, you could never buy a company (or the Soviet equivalent) no matter how many of these you had.

However, the USSR had to deal with other countries, both socialist and capitalist and needed to pay for stuff. For this, other currencies were used.

Behold the Federation credit:

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This is a cheque for 5 foreign exchange rubles (not the same ruble as above) to use in specialized stores in USSR. Unlike the ruble above, this currency is convertible.

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This is a traveller’s cheque for 100 rubles that used to be issued to Soviet staff on trips abroad. If I am not mistaken, this is yet another kind of convertible ruble, but not the same as the previous one.

There were actually several kinds of convertible rubles, but all of them had the same fixed exchange rate. Some were used for foreign trade based on bilateral agreements; some were used for trade with socialist countries and yet other were gold-backed and used for trade with capitalist countries. Some of these didn’t have coins and banknotes, they existed simply as records in banks. However, the few people who actually came into contact with this system got some kind of cheque that was exchangeable to foreign currencies. Different kinds of cheques actually had different “market value” (or rather black market value), because you could purchase different things with them upon return to the USSR.

Yes, the Soviet system was rather insane, but then again, the Soviet Union was very much a scarcity society, had a rather meagre influence on international markets, manufactured consumer products of such quality that many citizens were prepared to pay ten times the price for a foreign equivalent and simply did not allow direct contact with foreign economic systems. Any foreign transaction had to go through Vneshekonombank (Foreign Trade bank) and this was not an option for a private citizen.

The Federation, on the other hand, seems to provide a much higher quality of life than other states (by the way, how come there are barely any Romulan, Klingon or Cardassian migrants in the Federation?), seems to have an economy at least as large and developed as that of the other major powers and engages freely in foreign trade. This means that there is no need to put artificial constraints on foreign currency ownership, which simplifies the system to a single convertible currency: the Federation credit.

While there is a difference between the prosperity of the Federation and the USSR, to say the least, the principle is probably the same: the Federation credit is not normally paid to your average citizen, because the average citizen only rarely acquires something directly from an entity in a foreign economic system. Instead, the citizen simply walks up to a replicator and gets whatever he needs (probably within the constraints of his replicator ration). If the citizen is a Starfleet officer stationed either outside Federation space or is in contact with foreign economic systems on a regular basis, this is where the Federation credit comes into the picture.

Really? I have it in my mind that there was one episode outside of Short Trek where we have seen the same effect. I might be mistaken though...brain tends to forget trauma...

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Star Trek: Lower Decks should be available for streaming in many countries today. Without much ado, here are my reviews of all ten episodes of the first season of the new animated series.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/episodes/dis3.htm#thathopeisyouii

The third season of Star Trek Discovery concludes with an exciting but overall rather average episode, whose main purpose was to tie up some loose ends. Here is my review of DIS: “That Hope Is You, Part 2”.

The third season of Star Trek Discovery concludes with an exciting but overall rather average episode, whose main purpose was to tie up some loose ends. Here is my review of DIS: “That Hope Is You, Part 2”.

As the Discovery is in the hands of the Emerald Chain, Michael Burnham struggles to regain control of the ship. But Osyraa comes up with a surprising proposal. Peace to the galaxy? Read my review of DIS: “There Is A Tide”.

I have added dozens of orthographic views and other pictures to the Starship Gallery, and most notably a new page for Discovery Alien Vessels.

The Discovery finally arrives at the place where the Burn originated and where someone is still alive, after as many as 125 years. Here is my review of Star Trek’s first Christmas episode, DIS: “Su'Kal”.

As Georgiou’s condition because of her travel though time and dimensions worsens, Burnham takes her to a planet where they could find help. Here is my review of DIS: “Terra Firma I”.

Emperor Georgiou attempts to change history, but then her stay in her own universe ends abruptly. Back in the 32nd century, Carl reveals his true identity. Read my rant on one of the most disappointing episodes ever made, DIS: “Terra Firma II”.

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