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I love how, in Star Trek, the amount of anguish and trauma you receive for dying being directly proportional to the number of pips you have is illuminating.
In the future, people don't strive for money; they strive for pips, because the more they have when they die, the more impact and the more episodes their deaths reverberate through the series.
TOS, ensign red shirts would die and Kirk and the bridge crew would be sharing a hearty laugh by the end of the episode; Tasha Yar dies and everyone grieves for the rest of the season, and then they double down with an evil twin!
It's the pips, I tell you. It's the Trek way of measuring worth and value.
See now, they should have a system where the amount of pips everyone has changes each week because they can earn a weekly number of pips which they can then trade for goods and services.
Wesley over there, just hoarding pips until he's got a ring of them around his collar.