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Memo: Star Trek is going to have to make an edit out of Discovery season one
In Star Trek: Discovery season one Elon Musk is mentioned as a great historical figure. We all realized that was a great risk as he was still alive and who...
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Memo: Emissary Errors from Sam and Issac; A Repeat from Babylon 5
There are great similarities between The Orville’s Isaac and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Sam in the manner in which they work as emissaries. First, look at the way Sam is...
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Trauma and Postmodern Subtext in Star Trek
B’Elanna Torres, martyrologies, the resolve of violence superstructures to persist as their own solutions – just as the competing martyrologies-imposed doctrines of violence, so, too, did Lt. Torres imposed violence...
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Posts from this site included in free book on Internet Archive
Here is the list of essays, short essays, and memos included in the book. There are other essays and memos, but the following list is what is included from this...
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Star Trek is a Collaborator with Contemporary Injustice
Star Trek is a dangerous, denialist lie that is about hope in the future. We cannot hope for a future without injustice where Earth is a paradise without first addressing...
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Tom Stoppard meets Star Trek (cross posted)
I had an idea for movie that is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play: 1966, film: 1990), which was written by Tom Stoppard and is a play that was made...
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“Spock’s Brain” and the Perpetuation of Sexist Control
Regular readers will have noted that though Star Trek is discussed often in this space, not once have I discussed The Original Series. I rarely watch it. There are a...
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The Conflict and Promises of Revisiting the Past and Seeing into the Future
I want to return to a previous post, “On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism” and the ethics of interpreting oneself with the present moment, detached from the...
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Discovery’s “Point of Light,” Klingon culture and “Ideal Theory,” New Visions for “Reproduction,” and “Commoning” as Future Utopia (Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Part III)
In Star Trek: Discovery’s “Point of Light” (2019), L’Rell is confronted with a Klingon house that wishes to return to the old ways of Klingons warring with Klingons, or, to...