How 'Star Trek: Picard's Dystopia Connects To Our Current-Day Problems
For starters, the crew land in a version of Los Angeles that looks not unlike it does today. Even the massive tent city in a public park (which directly connects to the unhoused internment camp seen in DS9) resembles the real life encampments of unhoused people, currently being targeted by the city. And behind the camp is a billboard for a “Europa Mission”; NASA actually is planning a flight to Europa in 2024, with a cost of $4.25 billion.
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In terms of the militaristic police force subjugating the rights of citizens, which was key to the version of 2024 we already saw, well in Picard we get a scene in which Starfleet Captain Rios gets roughed up and arrested by ICE – because raiding hospitals is very much their thing. [the linked story had this ICE has arrested at least three immigrants visiting Oregon hospitals for medical care.]
For starters, the crew land in a version of Los Angeles that looks not unlike it does today. Even the massive tent city in a public park (which directly connects to the unhoused internment camp seen in DS9) resembles the real life encampments of unhoused people, currently being targeted by the city. And behind the camp is a billboard for a “Europa Mission”; NASA actually is planning a flight to Europa in 2024, with a cost of $4.25 billion.
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In terms of the militaristic police force subjugating the rights of citizens, which was key to the version of 2024 we already saw, well in Picard we get a scene in which Starfleet Captain Rios gets roughed up and arrested by ICE – because raiding hospitals is very much their thing. [the linked story had this ICE has arrested at least three immigrants visiting Oregon hospitals for medical care.]
