hey, the first time we hear about the temporal displacement policy!
There’s some utopia - the US will finally correct its long-standing social problems!
Ira Behr also states that there is a subtle examination of racism in this episode. When Dax is discovered, she is treated like royalty, but when Sisko and Bashir are found, they are treated like criminals. Of this situation, Behr says “the simple fact is that a beautiful white woman is always going to get much better treatment than two brown-skinned men.”
Not on a sports roster.
I hate myself.
ooh! trivia!
This is the first episode of the series to feature Earth.
yeah that economic stuff is uncomfortably close
out of sight, out of mind
causing people to suffer because you’ve forgotten how to care
Yeah. I’m reading all the interesting stuff on the Memory Alpha site also. Great stuff.
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.” 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.”
Add in all of the press recently about the “boomerang generation,” unemployment for people under 30, the wealth divide, and the structural issues of sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, etc. Ouch, it’s not pretty.
agh netflix died on me. time to spin it up again.
bye, jumpsuits!
And it’s not like the old days when you could start a revolution. Weapons and technology are too powerful. The mighty police state would put their boot at your throat under the orders of the rich and powerful. Martial Law is coming. A class war is coming. It’s only a matter of time. I’m real interested how this is going to play out. I’ve been meaning to hit up one of the History geek forums and hear their take on it. What is our current situation similar too? There’s always Rome, of course. What about France circa 1770?
ooh, our agitator appears.
And now, the contrast with Jadzia’s experience of the 21st century.
She does look fabulous though.
Pan-Caribbean government? Oh, my!
Sisko’s ready for a fight
Yeah. Giggity Giggity.
May the real Gabriel Bell please stand up?
He’s dead, Jim.
This is like having to impersonate Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
No satellite network! Uh oh!
It’s part of why Sisko is so awesome
“It that’s all it’s for, then why is there a wall around it?”
Excellent question, Jadzia.