TMC
10-09-2017, 01:14 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/m/fbf70dfb-5921-355b-9aae-2d16711f1240/ss_the-most-political-%27star.html
It’s that they’ve given up.” This was how Commanding Officer Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, described early 21st-century Americans in an episode from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. When it aired in 1995, “Past Tense” (http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/d457.php) spoke to contemporary concerns about homelessness by telling a story set in 2024-the near future for viewers, but the distant past for characters. In the two-part episode, Sisko and two of his companions from the U.S.S. Defiant find themselves stranded in San Francisco, where they’re reminded that the federal government had once set up a series of so-called “Sanctuary Districts” in a nationwide effort to seal off homeless Americans from the general population. Stuck in 2024, Sisko, who is black-along with his North African crewmate Dr. Julian Bashir and the fair-skinned operations officer Jadzia Dax-must contend with unfamiliar racism, classism, violence, and Americans’ apparent apathy toward human suffering.
It’s that they’ve given up.” This was how Commanding Officer Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, described early 21st-century Americans in an episode from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. When it aired in 1995, “Past Tense” (http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/d457.php) spoke to contemporary concerns about homelessness by telling a story set in 2024-the near future for viewers, but the distant past for characters. In the two-part episode, Sisko and two of his companions from the U.S.S. Defiant find themselves stranded in San Francisco, where they’re reminded that the federal government had once set up a series of so-called “Sanctuary Districts” in a nationwide effort to seal off homeless Americans from the general population. Stuck in 2024, Sisko, who is black-along with his North African crewmate Dr. Julian Bashir and the fair-skinned operations officer Jadzia Dax-must contend with unfamiliar racism, classism, violence, and Americans’ apparent apathy toward human suffering.