Our crew takes a close look at the Season 6 TNG episode “Suspicions.” We talk about the guest characters and how they break with Trek racial stereotypes, and look at how Beverly Crusher sciences, solves crime, and kicks butt. Content…
Where we left off: Queen Agnes (Alison Pill) is on the loose, Kore (Isa Briones) knows that she’s an experiment, Q (John de Lancie) is dangerously unbalanced and unsummonable, and Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) have just been…
We last saw Picard (Patrick Stewart) unconscious on the clinic table. Now we see him in a tux, on a spaceship, with a fiery sun burning outside. He’s being psychoanalyzed by an exasperated counselor (James Callis), who asks him to…
The episode opens with a long recap because this is already a complex story! Seven (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi (Michelle Hurd) arrive at the clinic far too late and an assistant tells them they had better find Rios (Santiago Cabrera)…
To be honest, I’m not sure if Picard Season 1 ever completely found its footing. It had a lot of important emotional moments, but something about the pacing, or maybe something else, just seemed a little off to me. I…
“I’m not going to stand here and apologize for what I did. You had your duty; I had mine.” -Kasidy Yates, “For the Cause,” Deep Space Nine I am a Black woman. I have never been to prison. I…
I consider myself a first-generation working mom – my mom stayed home with my five siblings and I – and I often look to the women on Star Trek for guidance when it comes to balancing career and family. I…
In a special show celebrating Black History Month, Kennedy and Aliza are joined by Angélique Roché and Karama Horne to discuss how Blackness has influenced Star Trek, how Star Trek has influenced Blackness, and how representation throughout the franchise has…