I say we just give everybody homes.

Pimpare highlights one line from the episodes as a key to this idea. In a scene where Dr Bashir reassures a social worker that the situation in the Sanctuary District is not her fault, she responds: "Everybody tells themselves that and nothing ever changes."

"That line is central to the message of the episodes," Pimpare says. "You can't just throw up your hands and say that the system is too big to influence. That's how we get to those kinds of circumstances. In our real world, there are lots of things we can do to tackle homelessness."

Michael and Denise Okuda have a similar perspective on the message of Past Tense, rooted in the original vision of Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry. "Star Trek has always been political," says Denise. "From the very beginning, Rodenberry designed Star Trek to use allegory," Michael adds.

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