This also explains how Morn stores such enormous wealth on his person.I always thought it was odd because he didn't have much room. Since a bar is around the size of a real life ounce bar, we can also assume that there is hardly any latinum in a bar.maybe a drop or two in the middle. Thus, we can assume the gold must be pretty thick since it will need to take a beating is someone's pocket or till. Using it as a liquid container is pretty crazy because I'd imagine it'd be pretty easy to rupture and lose the latinum. The gold just encases it for easy transport. Latinum is actually a liquid, as we see when Morn turns out to be more than just a heavy drinker. Tens of dollars each.īricks: Thousands or possibly tens of thousands of dollars each. Strips: Money you might have in your wallet after an everyday visit to the ATM. The exact values are hard to peg down, but it seems clear the general values are as follows: Presumably that's several million dollars. But just for giggles: The Lissepian lottery winnings amounted to 1,000 bricks. The exchange rate for bars-to-bricks is unknown, according to Memory Alpha. But before calling it a day let's look at bricks.īrick. Let's double it and assume $400 (making a strip $20 and a slip $0.20). From all this, it seems like $200 for 1 bar is maybe too low. Gaila offers Quark 10 million bars to stay in the weapons business. Grand Nagus Zek set the reward for returning Ishka at 50 bars. For 5 bars you can hire 5 Nausicaans and a ship to help you escape prison, and an average day's business in Quark's bar is about 5 bars. Nog thinks he'll get 4 bars for selling 5,000 containers of yamok sauce. Does the buying power hold up? Quark pays 3 bars for the mixed wreckage of a starship. If a strip is $10 then that should make a bar about $200. From the context, it seems 1 strip is something on the order of about $10 (which would make 1 slip about 10 cents, exactly in line with what we'd expect.)īars. 2 strips was enough to buy Jadzia's freedom from a labor camp, and a starfleet uniform from Garak's shop cost 5 strips, while a nice women's dress costs 17 strips. 1 strip pays for a couple of spins on Quark's dabo wheel. These are probably less than $1 each in contemporary American money. 1 slip to enter someone's house, 3 slips to sit in a chair, 7 slips to use the elevator. They use them as tips for basic services. In order of value from smallest to largest there are slips, strips, bars, and bricks. Memory Alpha has a good list of where/when/how latinum is used in-universe. I also have this anecdotal evidence from the chat room.The key issue here is not the price of gold, but rather it's what does a bar of latinum buy you within the confines of the Star Trek universe? We don't know what a 'pay cycle' is, but if a Bjoran slave only made 1 slip per day and a Dabo girl makes 14 strips per period (maybe 1 strip per day (in a 2 week pay period), or 100 times more than a Bajoran slave per day) and the average Blackjack dealer makes roughly $601 every two weeks, we can guess that a strip is worth around $43 in today's money, and a slip is $0.43. Not only do dealers earn a salary but they also often earn tips when the players are winning. They are basically dealers in a casino who are also hired for their looks. I think the most relevant indicator is the wage of the Dabo girls.
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