DS9 Episode - Past Tense, Part 1

Series :

Deep Space Nine

Rating :

Disc No :

3.3

Episode :

First Aired :

2 Jan 1995

Stardate :

48481.2

Director :

Reza Badiyi

Year :

2371

Writers :

Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Season :

Guest Cast :

Al Rodrigo as Bernardo	Bill Smitrovich as Michael Webb
Dick Miller as Vin	Eric Stuart as Stairway guard
Frank Military as Biddle Coleridge	Henry Hayashi as Male guest
Jim Metzler as Christopher Brynner	John Lendale Bennett as Gabriel Bell
Patty Holly as Female guest	Tina Lifford as Lee

Plotline :

A transporter accident throws Commander Sisko, Dr. Bashir and Dax into the year 2024. While Jadzia is taken in by a passing millionaire, Sisko and Bashir are picked up by the police and thrown into a 'Sanctuary district' - a dumping ground for the homeless and jobless. History buff Sisko realises that the historical Bell Riots will occur in just a few days time - but when Bell himself is killed in a fight Bashir starts, the Defiant finds herself alone in a future in which the Federation never existed.

Moral :

History :

Our past makes us what we are today.

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YATI :

Less a YATI than an observation - this Federation sure is fragile. It seems like there's no change in history so small that it doesn't wipe the Federation out of the timeline.

Factoid :

The idea of something like a Sanctuary district for the homeless was actually proposed at about the time this episode was filming.

Quote :

"Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible... but causing people to suffer because you've forgotten how to care, that's really hard to understand." - Bashir to Sisko.

Datapoints :

Big bangs :	Big Bang #15
Internals :	Defiant Class Transporter
Illnesses :	Schizophrenia, Transporter Shock
People :	Danny Webb, Henry Garcia
Planets :	Venus
Regulations :	Starfleets Temporal Displacement Policy
Rules of acquisition :	111, 217
Scitech :	Ablative Armour, Chroniton
Temporal :	Past Tense
Timeline :	2020
Weapons :	Shotgun

Images :

Temporal
Past Tense

People
Henry Garcia

People
Danny Webb

Internals
Defiant Class Transporter

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Last updated : 19 Feb 2004