Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
Maybe we should focus on the rodenberry set of episodes. After all, he was the original visionary of the series and had, i think, a stranglehold on approval right up till a couple seasons into tng, were there any money related episodes of the original series or the first seasons of tng that would imply the federation, while providing all needed things for its people for free, also had a monetary system of some sort?
In addition to the TOS examples of credit use , in I, Mudd, Kirk accused Mudd of not paying royalties (to the Vulcans, IIRC) on technology he was selling.