So far in 2020, the inhabitants of planet Earth have faced bushfires in Australia, a plague of locusts in East Africa, floods in Jakarta, multiple earthquakes in Puerto Rico, a murder hornet invasion, and the coronavirus pandemic that has brought…
Star Trek was born in the Civil Rights era and the message of freedom for all peoples has been at its core for over five decades. It has celebrated diversity and the fight for justice since Star Trek: The…
Welcome, readers, to the second edition of T’Pol’s Book Club! For this meeting we will be discussing the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and comparing it to Star Trek episodes with similar storylines. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…
Some people live their lives dwelling on the past. Until recently I lived my whole life in an impossible future. It took an indirect posthumous jolt from Mr Spock – or more accurately Mr Leonard Nimoy – to bring me…
According to Al Gore and most climate change scientists, my home is going to disappear under water. Not in the immediate future, but sometime later this century. A local Dutch website monitoring rising sea levels, is optimistic about my short-term…
Previously on Star Trek Picard: Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) brain abnormality has become terminal. But he’s on one last mission to find and save androids he believes to be Data’s children. Turns out that Romulans are looking for them, too…
Previously on Star Trek Picard: Jurati wakes from her coma and confesses to what she’s done as a result of seeing the Zhat Vash ritual known as The Admonition. But she starts to reconsider her actions after meeting Soji (Isa…
“I’m not a trekker,” Joss Whedon told Rolling Stone in 2009, and I believed him. He even called his sci-fi series Firefly the “anti-Star Trek.” But despite his words, I’ve come to believe Whedon is more of a Star Trek…