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[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future; that was an invention of “The Voyage Home”, which Roddenberry had no involvement with.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ronald D. Moore commented, "By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did 'credits' and that was that."

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" - release date: 26 November 1986
"Encounter at Farpoint" - original air date: 28 September 1987
"The Bonding" - the first episode of TNG Ronald D. Moore wrote, and sold as a spec script before getting hired as part of the writing staff, original air date: 23 October 1989

There is plenty of references to money in TOS, and not merely as a figure of speech.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care, I was just refuting "Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future" because it's categorically untrue.

He didn't imagine it. He just took the ball and ran with it.