Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s Most Prescient View of Our Future Is Already Getting Here

"Past Tense" and its vision of 2024 may have felt like near-future speculation, but now that we're actually here, the ghosts of Star Trek vision are all too real.

September 2, 2024 · 1 min · 32 words · Mary Phillips

Nearly 30 years ago, 2024 mustve felt a lifetime away for the writers ofDeep Space Nine.

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