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| 02-12 | SFA 1x06 | "Come, Let's Away" |
| 02-19 | SFA 1x07 | "Ko’Zeine" |
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They're cheap and easy devices. Almost every living space on a starship has one, as does every colony. The Enterprise originally shows up to deliver and install a batch of replicators for an entire colony in "The Survivors".
Not really. Replicators are two-way devices. If you don't want something any more, you put it back, and it'll convert it the other way.
If you were ever worried about rubbish, you could plonk a replicator down, and just use it as an infinite hole to throw your rubbish into, until it went down to a desirable level.
You have that, but unlike in The Good Place, it's not forced. You can spend all your time having fun, but eventually you would get bored, and want a challenge, and there are a great many challenges, between colonisation, and scientific achievements. There's no Janet to ask for all the answers.
There's also a social element. Culturally, the Federation values authenticity. Going to Vulcan to see a sunset is more value than seeing a hologram of a Vulcan sunset, much like how a photograph today means less than going to the same location it was taken, and seeing it for yourself.
It's funny you say that, since they did abolish financial wealth in Star Trek, since at least the second show, for humans. Everyone gets the basics, and the rest depends entirely on who's offering.
Going to do authentic pre-23rd century Cajun restaurant doesn't cost buckets of money. Everyone can book and go there, anytime. It's first-come, first-served. There's no way to skip the queue, other than someone else pulling out, of asking them to give you their slot.
At the same time, it is quite far into the future, and they have spent a lot of time and hard work cracking at their issues, with alien assistance.
Earth had to be basically rebuilt from the ground up, after all, and it's over 200 years past that. Technology makes a lot of the issues facing us today, trivial. If we had their replicators, for example, we would solve a huge amount of issues today. Part of the issue of hunger, for example, is logistical. A single, easily portable device that can create almost endless perfectly nutritious food, and remove waste, would be hugely beneficial to solving it from that angle. Or even their shuttles, if we could just ferry aid directly to the location without concerns over how long it would take to get there, or risks of it being waylaid.
For reference's sake, they're about as far from us, as the USA is from its original colonies, and a lot has changed since they revolted and became a country.