Prouvaire

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

I am a huge Rachel Bay Jones fan. I was already tempted to try to make it to New York to catch this show, but now with this cast, it's even more tempting. (Even without Rachel Bay Jones it's a damn impressive line up.) And Merrily We Roll Along - my favourite Sondheim musical - will be playing at the same time. Aargh!!

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

claiming there are two Delta Vegas.

I have no problem with this solution. See for example, the other Paris.

Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in “The Andorian Incident” it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 “must be intolerable.”

You can reconcile this: To Vulcan males we really smell. To Vulcan females, we really, really smell.

so perhaps that’s a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS

There's a tendency to treat every alien race as a monoculture, but maybe Spock and T'Pol just came from different parts of Vulcan.

As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon

I actually kind of assumed that it might have been facon. While I can see the Enterprise growing real plants on its five year mission (hence Pike's preference of real herbs), I can't see it breeding real pigs.

T’Pring and Spock decide to take time apart, but we know this isn’t permanent,

The real question is, when T'Pring finds out about Spock and Chapel getting it on, will his excuse be that they were on a break?

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

I've always interpreted the "no money in the Federation" thing non-literally. I think there's still a financial and economic system operating in the background (otherwise this would be the most radical bit of world building Star Trek has ever done - and Star Trek's world building has never been particularly innovative), but it's just that "money" doesn't have the same primacy in people's lives as it does in the real world today.

I imagine there would be an electronic system of debits and credits (hence "credits" being the currency) moving around in the aether, with money in its physical form having entirely disappeared. Less "evolved" societies like the Ferengi would still use a form of cash (latinum), as would backward societies like 20th century Earth (hence Kirk saying "They're still using money" in The Voyage Home).

But even more than the term "money" being associated with physical currency (a concept that's increasingly being phased out even in the real world), to Federation citizens "money" would be associated with the archaic mindset of capitalism, greed and exploitation - the accumulation of financial wealth for its own sake. As opposed to 24th century people who (with just about all physical needs like health, food and shelter met by virtue of tech like replicators and advanced medicine), can focus on bettering themselves as a goal in its own right. So you might study medicine or law, not because it pays well, but because you're interested in that field. You might go for a promotion in your job, not because it pays better, but you seek the satisfaction of having more responsibility.

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

Exactly. "Money" (or "credits") would still exist to address whatever scarcity remains. Eg replicators can't replicate starships (although in Prodigy we get pretty close IIRC). Or if you want to own that genuine Rembrandt (even if you could replicate a very good fake). Or if you want to trade with societies that still use money. But it would be confined to edge cases like that.

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

That's how I read it too.