Dime

A dime was a unit of currency on Earth used in the United States of America and Canada. It was equal to one-tenth of a dollar ($0.10), or ten cents (10¢).
In 1893, a beggar asked Data for whiskey, and when Data responded that he had none, the beggar told him that he would take a dime instead. ()
When Worf requested that the 1960s hologram Vic Fontaine play the same song over and over again, Vic used an old expression: "It's your dime." This referred to the fact that Earth jukeboxes, which played songs on demand, once accepted dimes to play a song. ()
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===Background information===
In the final draft script of , scar tissue on Kuroda Lor-ehn's wrists from the insertion of subdermal implants was described as "about the size of a dime on each wrist."
The script for the second season episode describes the tables in Charnock's Comedy Cabaret as dime-sized. 
In a deleted scene from , after Slade Bender tells Rex that Alva promised Bender that she would contact him if she knew he was looking for her, Rex replies, "If I had a dime for every time a dame's said that to a guy – I’d… probably have less than a dollar." 
The script for the fifth season episode states that Jean-Luc Picard "turns on a dime" the moment he and Ro Laren enter his ready room. 
The script for fifth season episode states "the dime drops" as Quark realizes that Brunt knows about Zek's failing memory. 
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Category:Earth currencies