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    Roddenberry didn’t imagine a moneyless future; that was an invention of “The Voyage Home”, which Roddenberry had no involvement with.

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      Ronald D. Moore commented, “By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did ‘credits’ and that was that.”

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        “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” - release date: 26 November 1986
        “Encounter at Farpoint” - original air date: 28 September 1987
        “The Bonding” - the first episode of TNG Ronald D. Moore wrote, and sold as a spec script before getting hired as part of the writing staff, original air date: 23 October 1989

        There is plenty of references to money in TOS, and not merely as a figure of speech.