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The longest running science fiction television show in history addressed the 1% - 99% issue on many episodes that were done since 1963. The master's nemesis was "DR WHO" that was started November 23, 1963. The BBC has now been through 10 reincarnations of the Doctor since its birth.
The most telling episode that I can remember is one where "the Doctor" ends up on this city in the clouds where these very well off beings are living the life of luxury. They are in a dispute with miners on the home planet down below who are working in deadly conditions mining an ore that is necessary for the city in the clouds to survive. In his own unique way the time traveling Doctor (Tom Baker) and his compnion resolves the conflict where the leaders in the city are brutalizing the miners.
How truth is stranger than fiction. The gated communities, private country clubs, private beaches, private islands all have the same separating and unequal elements that the episode that I mention here does. The less fortunate are now not only being brutalized they are being demonized. They are the reason for all our problems according to the elite. The realityis that exploitation by the powerful, the connected, the rich and GOP are the real cause of the problem.
The only problem is that we do not have Dr Who to rescue us from these brutal conflicts. We only have ourselves.
randome
(34,845 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)He better make a reappearance soon.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)According to David Gerrold, the original script had Kirk forcing the two sides into talks, at long last.
At the end though McCoy says "How many kids though will die in the meantime?"
And Kirk didn't have an answer.
The TV version gave the miners gas masks, so now they'll be good little Darkies and pick all the cotton we want...
The Next Generation had a better script, with the one planet supplying dope to another planet of addicts.
Picard wouldn't give them the tech they needed to keep up their illicit trade.