friendly reminder that the exact time period referenced here is only eight years from now
This episode takes place in 2024 which would be right after a two-term Trump administration. They go to 2024 San Francisco and, guess what? America didn’t build A wall… we built a BUNCH of walls. We throw anyone who is unemployed/can’t work into ghettos and keep them from the rest of the country. All healthcare is privatised and the media is pressured to not report anything damaging to the government to the point where no channels are really brave enough to cover the news.
This came out in the 90s.
From Memory Alpha:
While the episode was filming, an article in the Los Angeles Times
described a proposal by the Mayor that the homeless people of that city
could be moved to fenced-in areas so as to contain them, in an effort
to “make downtown Los Angeles friendlier to business.” Alexander Siddig has commented on the amazing coincidence: “The episode was almost a cinematic version of that statement by the LA council.” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) As Ira Behr comments the plan was “to put aside part of downtown Los Angeles as a haven, nice word, a haven for the homeless.” Similarly, as Robert Wolfe says, “That was what the Sanctuary Districts were, places where the homeless could just be so no-one had to see them, and literally there it was in the newspaper. We were a little freaked out.” (Time Travel Files: “Past Tense”, DS9 Season 3 DVD, Special Features)Ira Steven Behr also commented that (several months after the two-parter aired) “People are still
even writing that we only presented ‘one side’ in “Past Tense” and that
we should have presented ‘both sides’ and not just the ‘liberal’ point
of view – and I’m still trying to think what that means. In other words,
we should have showed the positive aspects of putting the homeless into
concentration camps? And I do admit we probably failed in that – we
really did not show the many, many wonderful aspects of life without
money and living in over-crowded camps“. (“The Behr Necessities, Star Trek Monthly, issue 12)
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
- May 2022
- April 2022
- January 2022
- May 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- August 2020
- May 2020
- June 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- October 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- August 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- December 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010