TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world ummthatguy @lemmy.world 1w ago

Maybe the universal translator is malfunctioning

TOS s2e7 "Catspaw"

Edit: Memory Alpha's segment on this turn of phrase.

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Credits, eh? Sounds like someone is hedging their bets in case this "no money, socialist utopia thing turned out to be a fad."
- It's an outdated saying but still holds meaning. Like these days saying "send the horse to the glue factory". Way back when it was more common since glues were made from horse parts
  
  There are a handful of glues still made with animal collagen. Often ones used in antique restoration and repair.
- I'd bet that the Enterprise crew probably took shore leave on more than a few pre-post-scarcity planets.
- The whole no money utopia thing happened later. They were still using credits at the time.
  
  Earth society amongst itself was rid of a need for currency. However, other cultures/species within the galaxy (most notably the Ferengi), still operated under a system of exchange. Anything the Federation couldn't barter for, required some form of compensation. Credits, however they were denoted, were used to maintain the galactic economic flow. Even on DS9, Federation members were allotted a kind of stipend to be spent with the various merchants.
It will not analyse, sir

I'm upset by the idea that you can see a thing but you can't get any kind of wavelength off it.
- In fairness, it was literally magic.
To bet (someone) credits to navy beans meant to put up something of high value against an equal number of relatively worthless items. Metaphorically, it indicated one's strong belief that the statement which followed was true.

A Federation variation on "dollars to doughnuts", this referred to wagering something of value against something relatively worthless – in other words, "I'll bet you anything…"

In 2267, DeSalle was willing to bet credits to navy beans that using USS Enterprise's impulse engines to crash the starship into a force field surrounding them could at least manage to put a dent in it, if not break through it. (TOS: "Catspaw")

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Economic_parlance

I have to look up basically every English idiom that I come across, so this had not necessarily struck me as odd
You know it's obscure if Uhuru is confused.
- This meme made my minute! 😂
- Not every vessel gets a Hoshi
  
  To make a situation worse by an additional action.
  
  Example: Realizing he’d insulted the host, he threw the helve after the hatchet by leaving the party early.

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