This is really the cutting edge of what they could do on television in terms of talking about poverty. I think one of the great ironies is that even the 1990s is an era of globalization, an era where labor seems to be in retreat. Star Trek throughout its now almost 60-year history has been wrestling with its own brand of liberalism. It's almost saying, this is the best the American people could do until push came to shove. Now, is that a utopian vision of the future? Probably not. But it may be perhaps, unfortunately, for the moment, a realistic one.