• Explain why no payments while he was on Deep Space 9. They explain in the first or second episode that Starfleet stationed there get a daily stipend of a few strips/slips (can’t remember which) of latinum. That’s how they are able to eat at Quark’s. He isn’t giving shit away for free.

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        3 months ago

        I like to imagine it would be like when you give a kid a little kitchen playset or a toy cash register (do they still make those?). All the Starfleet people going around like “ooh, look, money tokens, how quaint. After our shift let’s go do a capitalism, lol.”