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13 hours ago30 Years Ago, Star Trek Dropped A Chilling Political Thriller That Still Challenges Fans
In Star Trek: The Original Series, the USS Enterprise never returned to Earth. In The Next Generation, Picard's Enterprise-D visited every once in a while, and when debuted, the basic premise put the crew on the fringes of the Federation. But in a two-part thriller that aired 30 years ago, on January 1 and January 8, 1996, Deep Space Nine took a trip back to idealistic 24th-century Earth, where even paradise could turn into a snakepit.
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