Author: Ruth Anne Amsden

Ruth Anne Amsden is a single Mum, a writer, and life long Trekkie. Her favorite Trek is DS9. You can find her on Twitter at @afringedgentian and on Trek BBS as "cake is eternal."

A Long Time: Star Trek: Discovery and the Many Faces of PTSD

Ruth Anne Amsden • December 28, 2021

Burnham puts her hand on Book's knee in his bedroom after Kwejian is destroyed

“This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it.” ~Robert Picard to brother Jean-Luc Picard, “Family” Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for the first four episodes…

Ruth Anne Amsden • October 4, 2021

I came to Star Trek as a lonely, isolated girl nerd coming of age in a strict, conservative Christian fundamentalist sect. My first taste of feminism, my first glimpse of what equality for women looked like, came through Star Trek.…