Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense” Parts 1 & 2 foretells a future-present…

******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-parter “Past Tense” debuted 29 years ago this month (January 5th and January 12th, 1995), and it was set in the then-near future of 2024, which is now.  The episode itself forecast a dark, vaguely fascistic era where homeless people are rounded up en masse and placed…