Past Tense: The Homeless Problem In Star Trek DS9 – OpEd
By Mark Thornton
The third Star Trek series—Deep Space 9—is set on a distant space station-city. The producers had to be creative with the scripts because they are not visiting “strange, new worlds” all the time. In season 3, episodes 11 and 12, titled “Past Tense” they dealt with—thirty years ago in the mid-1990s, mind you—with the US homeless problem oftheir distant past, set inour futureof late August of the year 2024. The script rings all too true of ourpresent situationregarding homelessness... Читать дальше...