Empathy is power. This is what Deanna Troi, counselor of the USS Enterprise, teaches us. Unfortunately, since we are still living pre-Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, this message is lost on the hordes of misogynistic Star Trek fans who…
“What I feel is that failure is liberating. And for the first time, I enjoy expressing emotion.” – Spock Previously on Star Trek Discovery: A RoboSquid from the future attacked one of Disco’s shuttles and accessed the ship’s data core.…
I’ve been struggling to pin down why the “think yourself beautiful” body positivity movement makes me so uncomfortable… and then, as has been the trend throughout my life, I found clarity in Star Trek. Still, I couldn’t have been more…
“Your humanity was beautiful.” – Burnham Previously on… Star Trek?! Holy shit, that’s the TOS logo and music, and these are clips from “The Cage” and I am freaking out. And even the way this is edited is so 1960s,…
Let me paint for you, briefly, a portrait of a child. This child is young, no more than 10. Questions of identity, gender, and purpose are still well into his future. He spends most of his day failing: failing school,…
It’s quite possible that I’ve watched the Voyager episode “Resolutions” more times than any other single episode of Star Trek. A lot of those times were when I was a teenager, during the show’s first airing in the UK. I…
“I’m sorry, sir. You know how I get around violations of causality.” – Ensign Sylvia Tilly In lieu of a “previously on” segment, we open this episode with a personal log from Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). I’m beginning to think…
“Its time get your pencil and paper,” Mom would say to all us subsets when it was time for Star Trek re-runs when I was at the age where I was just learning English. She wanted us to write down…