Star Trek: The Next Generation

The episode was written and produced during the first term of Bill Clinton. The Democratic Party also retreating from what we might think of as even Milqueto's liberal ideas about how to deal with poverty and homelessness. So you're already seeing in the air across the country in both major parties this idea of the best way for us to deal with homelessness is to put the homeless out of sight and out of mind. And I would add that they decided to use time travel as opposed to an allegory on an alien planet.