So, Sisko stands up and pretends to be Gabriel Bell. He takes it upon himself to fulfill the past. The situation is very tense and the Government is reluctant to let these people free and the police within the District are power hungry and fiercely militarized. But, Sisko uses his wits and compassion to dissolve the situation and sow the seeds of change. ....hey that line was almost well written for once. While all this is going on, Dax has been infiltrating the corporate elite and befriends one of them, she uses him to help Sisko and Bashir escape. Also, Kira and O'Brien make it to this era and track down their lost comrades. They all get beamed back to the correct time. At the end of the episode, they show a historical log entry about The Bell Riots and it shows a picture of Sisko.
I just found this entry on WikiPedia in regards to these episodes.
"According to the DVD commentary, as this episode was finishing production an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times describing a proposal by the mayor to create fenced-in "havens" for the city's homeless, to make downtown Los Angeles more desirable for business. The cast and crew were shocked that this was essentially the same scenario that Past Tense warned might happen in three decades, but was now being seriously proposed in the present."
Also Clint Howard is in this episode.
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I remember first watching this episode and thinking DS9 was finally getting as good as Next Gen. Just a great episode. Love this one.
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