The older I get the more I'm convinced we're the mirror universe.
We’re going to build a space station, and the Andorians are going to pay for it.
One day older, a lot more convinced.
They're not stories for entertainment. They're a warning.
Very true. Heed my warning Trekkies:
Joe Piscopo is not funny.
I remember that DS9's 2024 being "democratic" (as in, working citizens voted).
I don't recall them outright saying what sort of representation the people tossed into sanctuary cities had, but it wouldn't think it too much of a stretch to believe they didn't have voting rights. I thought it may still have been mildly relevant given how close we were/are to that depending on the outcome of the election. The propaganda kept the truth out of the public eye. Sisko and Bashir were blindly thrown in to that sanctuary city because 2 cops found them assed out on the street without an ident card, and it seemed to be a complete catch-all to toss any undesirables instead of getting them actual help.
It's a sure sign to me of the culture of America over the past few decades.
People were a bit open to the idea of watching Star Trek in the 60s and 70s which is why the show even existed. There was a feeling of being more open and questioning of politics, futurism and society in the 90s with the Trek shows from that period with the stories and narratives they displayed for everyone to see.
Since then it has felt like a Trek fan is someone to ridicule or put down. As if the whole idea of Trek and the stories that were written are just fantasies and mean nothing and have no message or nothing important to share.
To me, that has always been what I liked about Trek ... the fact that we could hold a mirror up to ourselves and look at the stupid things we did and look back on ourselves from a distant fictional future universe and think about what we will look like to those future generations. Everything we find so important and significant today means nothing to those people that will come after us. And if we do want to hold on to so many damned disgusting, terrible and backward things now ... then there won't be any future generation in the stars that will look back on us ... instead, they will either not exist or they will inhabit caves and forests and remember us as a myth from the past.
What's with the ghost busters in here?
Monkey Boy's episode was about unreasonable punishment, not democracy.
