Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens: What about the poor? You ignore them?
Counselor Troi: Poverty was eliminated on Earth a long time ago, and a lot of other things disappeared with it: hopelessness, despair, cruelty...
Clemens: Young lady, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor, where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace, and power is an end unto itself, and you're telling me that isn't how it is anymore?
Troi: That's right.
Clemens: Hmm. Maybe... it's worth giving up cigars for, after all.
Counselor Troi: Poverty was eliminated on Earth a long time ago, and a lot of other things disappeared with it: hopelessness, despair, cruelty...
Clemens: Young lady, I come from a time when men achieve power and wealth by standing on the backs of the poor, where prejudice and intolerance are commonplace, and power is an end unto itself, and you're telling me that isn't how it is anymore?
Troi: That's right.
Clemens: Hmm. Maybe... it's worth giving up cigars for, after all.
—Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Time's Arrow, Part 2"
