People keep responding to this without having seen the episode...look it’s hard to critique when you have no vital context. Maybe don’t?
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This isn’t an episode about a poor neighborhood, they’re in a ghetto. These people cannot leave, they’ve been interred. DS9 consistently depicted the danger of nascent and rising fascism, and the racism and class warfare that fuels it
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Star Trek: Deep Space 9
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Missed it by four decades. Places like that have existed in or around every major city since the mid 1980s. Star Trek has always been too optimistic about the bleak future that leads to space communism.
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This from John Pilger’s excellent film on the NHS. A marquee is set up for volunteers to provide dental and other surgery to the rural poor. It’s not Africa, it’s America.pic.twitter.com/EcAcZvsAKy
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