The Bell Riots weren’t what they were cracked up to be. Either that, or they got the date wrong.
But, the writers in that scene went really easy on the set dressers and costumers: “Ok, it’s a street scene in 2024, but everyone is poor, and as a result they don’t have anything built after… say… 1995.”
“Ok, it’s a street scene in 2024, but everyone is poor, and as a result they don’t have anything built after… say… 1995.”
Aa someone from a country in which homelessness really isn’t a thing, where people don’t live on street, that those districts seem awfully similar to someone of the homeless encampments. Can’t find the video now but someone compared that DS9 clip to a homeless encampment with people out of their mind on fentanyl.
It’s similar, but homeless encampments are a bit different. The main difference, IMO, is that they’re much less permanent. In the DS9 clip it looked like people were not expecting to have to move any time soon.
In a real homeless encampment, the police often come by to harass people and kick them out. People need to be able to move quickly or they’ll leave stuff behind, and it will get broken, thrown away or stolen.
The other difference is that homeless people have cell phones. They’re not the latest models, they’re not in great shape. But, it’s really hard to exist in the modern world without one. In the DS9 clip they had no tech, probably because that was easier on the props department than trying to imagine tech that would be 20-years more advanced than what people had in 1995.
You didn’t see any tech there doesn’t mean they couldn’t have had any.
Phone snatchers are so common in some cities that you’d be a fool to show you have any.
It’s a permanent shantytown yes, and the US is strongly against them, I know.
But still, it’s very spot on in the general sense. Because looking 30 years into the future in terms of all around direction and political development, it’s really not that hard.
And it’d be much harder now than it was 30 years ago.
The Bell Riots weren’t what they were cracked up to be. Either that, or they got the date wrong.
But, the writers in that scene went really easy on the set dressers and costumers: “Ok, it’s a street scene in 2024, but everyone is poor, and as a result they don’t have anything built after… say… 1995.”
Aa someone from a country in which homelessness really isn’t a thing, where people don’t live on street, that those districts seem awfully similar to someone of the homeless encampments. Can’t find the video now but someone compared that DS9 clip to a homeless encampment with people out of their mind on fentanyl.
Seemed pretty spot on
It’s similar, but homeless encampments are a bit different. The main difference, IMO, is that they’re much less permanent. In the DS9 clip it looked like people were not expecting to have to move any time soon.
In a real homeless encampment, the police often come by to harass people and kick them out. People need to be able to move quickly or they’ll leave stuff behind, and it will get broken, thrown away or stolen.
The other difference is that homeless people have cell phones. They’re not the latest models, they’re not in great shape. But, it’s really hard to exist in the modern world without one. In the DS9 clip they had no tech, probably because that was easier on the props department than trying to imagine tech that would be 20-years more advanced than what people had in 1995.
You didn’t see any tech there doesn’t mean they couldn’t have had any.
Phone snatchers are so common in some cities that you’d be a fool to show you have any.
It’s a permanent shantytown yes, and the US is strongly against them, I know.
But still, it’s very spot on in the general sense. Because looking 30 years into the future in terms of all around direction and political development, it’s really not that hard.
And it’d be much harder now than it was 30 years ago.