Today, we use a recent Trek event to reflect on the pain of near-future storytelling that imagines worlds as ugly as our own and also somehow more optimistic.
There are plenty of real-world touchstones for the Bell Riots of DS9, which we just marked this past week. But are there real-world touchstones for the *change* that DS9 imagines will come after one bout of violence goes too far?
#StarTrek #SFF #Humanism #Economics #Housing #BellRiots #Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-bell-riots-and-us
@MLClark I have had to explain the Bell Riots to my wife three times in the past week.
@MLClark @Graci We get confused about that in my family because SOMEONE had a very bad reaction to the Red Violin soundtrack. #nichejoke