Are you a Dim, Gimme or Ghost? : 1995 Star Trek episode based in the near future.

I love Star Trek and have been watching old episodes of Deep Space Nine recently.
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Last night I watched an episode in which they were transported back in time to 2024. A year where the world economies are crumbling and citizens are treated like herds of cattle...or sheep rather.

The episode is called Past Tense
Season 3, Episode 11, Past Tense Part 1
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Season 3, Episode 12, Past Tense Part 2
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In this episode I noticed the following things:
1. People were put into social classes and were given street slang names.
a) Dim: Mentally challenged, handicapped, disabled, overly obese, etc.
b) Gimme: People out of work and looking for a job, an education, healthcare, a house, a family. People with nothing but a lot of need. People who could provide for themselves, if it were available but have been down on luck.. that sort of thing.
c) Ghost: Criminals, armed thugs, gang members, ex-cons, felons.. etc.. People who take what they want.
d) Wealthy: Not given a specific name that I can remember, but definitely shown as a class.
e) Sheeple: Not given a name either but represented as a security gaurd and a processing center worker, who earn mediocre wages, see whats going on, want to help, but have no way to do so. So they accept what they see.

2. Every major city on Earth has one or more "Sanctuary", where gimmes, dims and ghosts are "processed" until they can be found jobs or placed in appropriate facilities. The truth is they are put there and forgotten about. I'm assuming violent and major criminals are put in jails but it is not mentioned.

3. The internet is heavily censored and users have to have a gov't issued log on to access.

4. People in the cities are robbed and mugged more often.

5. The world economies have collapsed.

6. The world is on the brink of something horrible or something that can change them for the better.



Anyway, those are my observations. I thought it was a pretty good episode, but then I love Star Trek and most science fiction.

Let me know what you think!!!

Last Edited by Artlicious on 07/15/2012 02:13 AM