How many people does Starfleet use to choose redshirts for away missions?

@avclub-f42523df3fafe56f111474dc70679dcf:disqus : The word you're looking for to describe the Ferengi economic system is mercantilism:  an economic system where the state grants an exclusive market in exchange for a share of revenue.  Mercantilism pre-dates the modern concern of taxes and subsidies as you know it.

He's alluding to our much-missed Frakes.

JMS-y opinions that we can engage with, rather than explaining how Marta's ball gag ended up in Mira Furlan's mouth.

My assumption was that Trill couldn't be transported because the transporter biofilter, not being programmed to know otherwise, would remove the symbiont during transport. Nobody knew about the symbionts until Crusher discovered one. Once the symbionts were discovered, Federation transporters were reprogrammed to…