I just spent ten minutes trying to dig up the precise episode on Memory alpha and came to naught, but I believe that it's established the Federation doesn't use money in that episode of TNG where they find a spaceship with people from the 21st century frozen in it and then unfreeze them.

I just spent ten minutes trying to dig up the precise episode on Memory alpha and came to naught, but I believe that it's established the Federation doesn't use money in that episode of TNG where they find a spaceship with people from the 21st century frozen in it and then unfreeze them.

@avclub-42174967e0d54eedf303a49717e020bb:disqus Yeah, basically. There have been times and places in this countries history when you could in fact have gotten into Annapolis by walking into the right Congressmans office and dropping a sack of cash on the desk.

@avclub-42174967e0d54eedf303a49717e020bb:disqus Yeah, basically. There have been times and places in this countries history when you could in fact have gotten into Annapolis by walking into the right Congressmans office and dropping a sack of cash on the desk.

I don't even really think Rom is BAD at business.

I don't even really think Rom is BAD at business.

How would that work, though?

How would that work, though?

The A-plot could have been nothing but Bashir bouncing a ball against a door Toby Ziegler style for twenty-five minutes and the B-plot of Heart of Stone by itself would make it one of the better episodes of this entire season.

The A-plot could have been nothing but Bashir bouncing a ball against a door Toby Ziegler style for twenty-five minutes and the B-plot of Heart of Stone by itself would make it one of the better episodes of this entire season.

(which is itself a hilarious concept, like the U.S. Navy having "an opening" at the naval academy).

(which is itself a hilarious concept, like the U.S. Navy having "an opening" at the naval academy).

I think we only see a rating once (by which I mean a non-officer crewmember) speak ONCE during all of TNG, during that episode with the witch hunts that's a thinly veiled metaphor for McCarthyism.

I think we only see a rating once (by which I mean a non-officer crewmember) speak ONCE during all of TNG, during that episode with the witch hunts that's a thinly veiled metaphor for McCarthyism.

Mirror Universe Bareil is awesome, but he sort of makes regular Bareil problematic.

Mirror Universe Bareil is awesome, but he sort of makes regular Bareil problematic.

Kira never got to be with anyone as electric as herself.

Kira never got to be with anyone as electric as herself.

Er… when do Bajor and Cardassia suddenly become friends?

Er… when do Bajor and Cardassia suddenly become friends?