that pair of episodes gutted me when I watched it. it's so realistic how the "gimmies" fold into all the rhetoric we have today. and how the system is just utte

that pair of episodes gutted me when I watched it. it's so realistic how the "gimmies" fold into all the rhetoric we have today. and how the system is just utterly broken - there's no single bad guy, everyone's just doing their job or following their own incentives as society sweeps people into the trash heap. I can't really see the Bell riots changing anything, though. maybe if we're lucky enough to have Sisko organizing.