(Note: This review contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery Season 2.) Pride Month may be winding down, but if you’re looking for LGBTQIAP+ stories to read (besides the gigabytes of fanfiction we have online, that is), how about a novel…
With Pride Month in full swing, you may have missed IDW’s gorgeous one-off anthology celebrating some of Star Trek’s most-loved characters. In Star Trek: Celebrations, IDW spotlights LGBTQIAP+ characters throughout the canon – Sulu, Raffi, Seven, Chapel, Stamets, Reno,…
Content warning: Transphobia and anti-trans violence “The Outcast” is one of the most debated The Next Generation episodes. An alien society where everyone has no gender takes the title character, Soren, who identifies as a woman, and using some form…
Q is known for interfering with various Starfleet captains, but interpretations of how Q interacts with Captains Picard and Janeway shows a double standard at play. His treatment of Picard is sometimes treated as more playful and humorous while his…
When Enterprise debuted in 2001 it was meant to take the franchise in a “more modern” direction, yet it was oddly regressive in terms of sexuality. Not only were characters put into sexualized positions or outfits for fan service, but…
Star Trek—as a franchise—is one of the few that has always dreamed of a wider world of infinite diversity and equal inclusivity even going so far as to coin a phrase for it: “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.” In recent…
Star Trek has often been ground breaking, whether that meant having an ethnically diverse cast, promoting peaceful protest, advocating birth control, or discussing many other taboo subjects. Yet one area where Trek noticeably lagged behind for decades was in its…
(Caution: This article contains spoilers up to the final episodes of VOY Season 7 and PIC Season 2.) When I first saw Seven of Nine and Raffi Musiker holding hands in the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard, I…