> The United Federation of Planets doesn’t even use money

Well, they occasionally say they don’t (and Roddenberry said they don’t), but they actually do (or discussing the fact that they do) in every single one of the series, and several of the movies.

> and it’s post-scarcity so they don’t run out of resources.

They do run into resource limits.

Also, the UFP is, you known, fiction, and not even haed science fiction (or even particularly internally consistent fiction.)

Ships, planets, space, etc. are scarce and owned by various actors. The Federation is an interplanetary government made of sovereign member states, many of which do trade and use money. Even without the use of trade, there must be systems for determining who controls what.

They run out of resources all the time and it drives many plots!

fictitious evidence isn't.

replicators tho. makes a huge difference.

we're headed away from UFP and more towards DOOP.

I had a feeling someone was eventually going to pull this one out. :)