Homefront: Star Trek DS9

I watched the two part story of Deep Space Nine entitled Homefront the other day and I became very interested in the title of the episodes. The original air date was the 1st of January in 1996 but who would imagine that the 5th of August 2002 in a speech by George W. Bush, he would use the term "Homeland" when referring to what used to be called the nation, republic, or domestic soil of the United States of America. Suddenly the U.S. is the Homeland that needs to be protected and retaliation must be swift. Homeland is an odd and scary term to me because it has echoes of The Fatherland used by the Nazi Propaganda machine and now the Homeland propaganda machine is in high gear ever since that date. People can believe what they want to believe, but The U.S. is not the same place it used to be and that is a shame and sad.

Everytime I watch Star Trek DS9, I am amazed at how prophetic many of the episodes are, such as the Sanctuary Districts which I wrote about a while back.

If you have not watched these episodes, I think them well worth the time and see if you can recognize anything in these stories with the current events of today.

Worf on the ISS!!

I love it, Worf will be on the Space Station:

Amongst the items delivered by the Discovery space shuttle to the International Space Station earlier today, was a patch with a Star Trek connection.The acronym for the NASA patch for the Window Observational Research Facility, a science equipment rack that will enable astronaut-tended and remote-controlled Earth-observation experiments, is the same as the name of Lt. Commander Worf, the Klingon seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Would You Live in a Sanctuary District?

I have discussed in many posts that the economic depression we are in is not being fully or truthfully reported in the mainstream press and if you want the truth you have to rely on bloggers. I also found a great website that lists all of the jobs being cut on a daily basis, DailyJobCuts.com.
We were discussing a few posts back about two episodes in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 entitled Past Tense parts one and two, in which Sisko, Bashir, and Dax get beamed back in time to the year 2024. Capt. Sisko and Dr. Bashir get picked up by the police and placed in what was called a Sanctuary District for those who have no home, no work, or are mentally ill. These people are walled in, have ID papers, and are not allowed to leave but are going to receive help in finding work, which of course does not happen. Sound familiar? We have so many unemployed in the USA what will happen when there are no more social nets like unemployment insurance? Bernanke and company cannot keep printing money forever, and soon hyperinflation will come and food will be expensive. The writers of these two episodes had great insight into what could happen if too many people were without work and how the government would handle it: put them out of sight, in over crowded conditions, supply very little food, while those on the outside who do have jobs need to work with the government and follow all of their rules and ignore those in the Districts. Wow, this is a great story and a scary one at that. What is going to happen to all of the unemployed, will they get "put away" somewhere?
Here is a short clip from the episode, but I suggest watching it all if you have the DVD.