Latinum is a rare silver liquid used as currency by the Ferengi Alliance and many other worlds. It cannot be replicated. For ease of transaction, latinum is usually suspended within gold to produce "gold-pressed" latinum.
Ferengi rules:
- Nature decays, latinum lasts forever.
- Even a blind man can recognize the glow of latinum.
- Nature decays, latinum lasts forever.
- Even a blind man can recognize the glow of latinum.
by Granga August 6, 2009
Fictitious precious material in the Star Trek universe, a very rare silver wrapped in gold.
They are graded according to quality, slip, strips, bars and bricks.
They are graded according to quality, slip, strips, bars and bricks.
Morn DS9 stolen gold-pressed latinum and hid it one of his second stomachs after stripping off the gold. This caused him to become bald.
by trugeermof January 1, 2008
by JDC June 8, 2005