Racan Souiedan is a Vancouver-based writer specializing in pop culture history. He is the co-writer and co-director of the Star Trek: The Next Generation fan episode "Chains of Betrayal", which was produced for the paltry sum of $200 (less than a few strips of gold-pressed latinum).
I was so angry when my mom died. Not for my own loss, as difficult as that was to process, but because I felt like she’d been ripped off. I’d watched her health deteriorate over the course of what seemed…