Quote Originally Posted by Spacewolf View Post
I wonder if they are going to try and link Nemesis and the final TNG episode together in this season.
For example Data coming back and becoming a professor
Picards degenerative neural disease which might be what gets hinted at in the second episode where the doctor hints that Picard has a very limited time left, which doesn't surprise Picard at all.
The reason Picard doesn't want to drag the TNG crew in is because he knows he will need them for his final trip to fix the time hole.

I have no idea if this is what they are actually building to but it would be interesting.
I think Picard is the only one who knows about the Time Paradox from All Good Things, because it was another test set up by Q. So it never happened. but it happened. As befits a paradox.

Not to mention we've already seen that several people who were involved there have already left Starfleet.

We also already know there's going to be a season 2, Stewart invited Whoopi Goldberg back to be Guinan for it and she accepted.

As for economics, Starfleet itself, may not 'pay' its officers, but I'm willing to be the Federation has currency available, even if it's mainly for trade with other space-faring powers. Gotta remember that while Starfleet is part of the Federation, it doesn't represent the whole of the Federation.