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The Hathon hammer was inspired by this exchange in Star Trek Online's off-topic forum.
''Alba ra'' appeared in TNG: "Suddenly Human". You can listen to a sample of it (and Picard being a buzz-killer) here.
The USS Bajor differs in several details from the Enterprise-D-era Galaxy-class. The dilithium-free warp core is based in part on remarks by Canadian engineer Michael Wong in essays on StarDestroyer.net on Star Trek engineering safety failures. On a more frequently relevant point, she carries quantum torpedoes instead of photon torpedoes.
And before any Roddenberry loyalists start complaining that "there's no money in the Federation" regarding Eleya docking pay (seriously, I've seen them bitch about me using the term "pay grade" in its idiomatic sense), that was contradicted six ways from Sunday all the way back to TOS. Having looked at all the evidence from TOS to VOY, and given what money actually is conceptually (a medium of exchange for trade so you don't end up trying to barter something your trading partner has no need of), my personal solution for the contradiction is that Earth specifically doesn't use money. Whether other planets in the Federation do or not is up to them: Reference the Bank of Bolias, located on a planet which is most certainly a Federation member. It's one of several Roddenberry ideas that sounds good as a high concept but is absolute horseshit when considered logically. Interstellar trade explicitly does exist in the Federation despite the use of replicators, therefore it makes sense to have money to simplify it.
Next Chapter: Chapter 4: Civil Defense Patrol Is Boring, Too
The Hathon hammer was inspired by this exchange in Star Trek Online's off-topic forum.
''Alba ra'' appeared in TNG: "Suddenly Human". You can listen to a sample of it (and Picard being a buzz-killer) here.
The USS Bajor differs in several details from the Enterprise-D-era Galaxy-class. The dilithium-free warp core is based in part on remarks by Canadian engineer Michael Wong in essays on StarDestroyer.net on Star Trek engineering safety failures. On a more frequently relevant point, she carries quantum torpedoes instead of photon torpedoes.
And before any Roddenberry loyalists start complaining that "there's no money in the Federation" regarding Eleya docking pay (seriously, I've seen them bitch about me using the term "pay grade" in its idiomatic sense), that was contradicted six ways from Sunday all the way back to TOS. Having looked at all the evidence from TOS to VOY, and given what money actually is conceptually (a medium of exchange for trade so you don't end up trying to barter something your trading partner has no need of), my personal solution for the contradiction is that Earth specifically doesn't use money. Whether other planets in the Federation do or not is up to them: Reference the Bank of Bolias, located on a planet which is most certainly a Federation member. It's one of several Roddenberry ideas that sounds good as a high concept but is absolute horseshit when considered logically. Interstellar trade explicitly does exist in the Federation despite the use of replicators, therefore it makes sense to have money to simplify it.
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