I don’t remember the episode and season numbers, but the episodes of DS9 where Cisko, Bashir and Dax are sent to the point in ST’s alternate history that sparked the socio-political revolution. Where they’re taken hostage in -to my memory either a bank or a jobs center- and have to become the heroes because the historically proper hero is killed (do to Cisko being where he temporally shouldn’t be).

In these episodes, we see a world of hyper-capitalism, where greed has led to the caging and separation of the poor, where the rich live in luxury, where the police are unabashed agents of the bourgeoisie and are the enemy for almost all of both episodes, two episodes that gave us scenes like this one; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTTy_u61gM]. A perfect theatrical “calling to attention”, but, they flub the allegory. The final scene, Bashir asks Cisko ‘what could drive the world to become this way’ (or something to that effect, it’s been a hot second), and Cisko doesn’t reply ‘capitalism’ or ‘greed’.

He replies “That’s a good question. I wish I had an answer”.