I never really thought about it before, but DS does incorporate some of The Glass Menagerie's themes into the first year of the show. The setting needn't be the same to utilize the themes.
That's a new one on me, too ... I love all of Tennessee Williams's work, including
The Glass Menagerie, but this is going to take some thought ... I don't really see any immediate correspondences between DS characters and Tom, who is aching to be free of his family; Amanda, the faded belle mother harking back to a more glorious past (not obviously Liz), the inhibited and shy Laura (certainly not Carolyn), nor the gentleman caller ... (curious that the blog writer didn't get the name of the play right, so I wonder where she got this information ... )
I also somehow missed seeing where Williams wrote for
Star Trek ...