Picard's final statement seems straight out of Hume, who (if second-hand memory serves) felt that, as societies became wealthier, people would spend more of their time in contemplation.

Even so, I can't see getting around at least a unit of account: at some point, Starfleet will have to make a decision about commissioning a new space ship. To do that, they'll need to know what they could be doing with those resources if they didn't build a new ship. Thus, they'll need to know what it would cost them in foregone opportunities. To answer this, it's a convenient to have a single metric.

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How could they NOT know what was going to happen ffs.

(cue picard facepalm)

like Picard "make it so"

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"I don't want the game to end." -Picard

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Not going to lie, I teared up a little. Just the idea of Picard back on the screen.

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I'm guessing this is going to be short-format "webisode" type thing, with Picard delivering monologues as if to an interviewer. That would probably be very good for what it is, but not something I'd get particularly enthusiastic about.

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