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Major Correction to a Previous Post: “What separates the Borg Queen from Michael Burnham?”

June 8, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Just an FYI, when I first posted “What separates the Borg Queen from Michael Burnham?” it was incomplete. I have corrected that with a much longer post that actually makes sense now. It was my error. My apologies if you previously read that and it made no sense.

Posted in: Star Trek, Website Tagged: Borg, Michael Burnham, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Trauma

Vic Fontaine and the Kindness of a Hologram

June 5, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

When Vic Fontaine sang “Here’s to the Losers” entertaining Doctor Bashir and Quark after they learned Jadzia Dax and Worf were planning on having a baby, Vic acted as Comforter-in-Chief, able to serenade away their sorrows and imagined digressions of lost love. However, his compassion was not strictly a matter of sympathy. Vic understood, from … [Read more…]

Posted in: Kindness Literacy, Star Trek Tagged: Doctor Bashir, Dominion, Jadzia Dax, Kindness, Kira, Kira Nerys, Nog, Odo, PTSD, Quark, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Trauma, Vic Fontaine, Worf

Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” and Voyager’s “Nothing Human”

June 5, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

In Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” (2002), Dr. Phlox hopes and aspires to not cure a global population suffering from a spreading disease that is killing them by the millions. Dr. Phlox would prefer not to find a cure. Such a harsh dialectic tone coming from the doctor invades our sense of ethics while turning … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Archer, Bajoran, BElanna, Captain Janeway, Crell Moset, Declaration of Helsinki, Enterprise, Ferengi, James Marion Sims, Janeway, Menk, Phlox, Prime Directive, Star Trek, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek Voyager, Tabor, The Doctor, The Nuremberg Code, TPol, Valakians, Voyager, Vulcans

A Partial Relationship between Admiral Picard and Elim Garak

June 5, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

In season one of Star Trek: Picard, on Chateau Picard, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (retired) navigates his time as though lost, recovering, living out his days with bitterness under the surface that is enlaced with dignity. As Picard comes to accept that the galaxy is calling to him to reignite his sense of purpose, he comments, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Cardassian, Chateau Picard, Dahl, Deep Space Nine, Elim Garak, Enabran Tain, Picard, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Zhaban

Solarpunk and The Vestiges of the Ascetic

June 4, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

About a month ago I had an idea for a book on a subject in which my knowledge it too limited to fill an entire book. The premise is that Transcendence, or experiencing transcendent consciousness, is overrated. It is directly related to the ancient conceptualization of the Righteous Nation. A more detailed clarification of that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Anti-Capitalism, Kindness Literacy, Solarpunk Tagged: Africana, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Human Rights, literature, ontology, publishing, Richard Rorty, Righteous Nation, science, Science Fiction, Solarpunk, transcendence, utopia

Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today

May 24, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

John F. Sitton’s criticism in ‘Hannah Arendt’s Argument for Council Democracy’ (Polity) and Odd Arne Westad’s outline of the Korea’s Neo-Confucian ‘Righteous Nation’ ideology (Empire and Righteous Nation) perfectly shows what we know about the intended goals of the Abrahamic god, and the limitations of that god’s promises. This is essentially a conclusion that comes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Anti-Capitalism, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, The Orville Tagged: Abrahamic god, activism, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, god, John F Sitton, Odd Arne Westad, Realism, Righteous Nation, Science Fiction, Star Trek, The Orville, utopia

Societal Progress, Anti-Capitalism, and the Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

May 24, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

To paraphrase Walter Benjamin, violence in society exist to protect the law. The law exists to protect those in power. It falls within any society’s rights and responsibilities to protect themselves from a government of institutionalized violence. A change in power structures is not as far-fetched as many would have us to believe, limited by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Anti-Capitalism, The Orville Tagged: Anti-Capitalism, capitalist, Culture, currency, Decolonization, Emancipatory, Emmanuel Levinas, Human Rights, Kelly Grayson, Ken Booth, Responsibility, Sofia Monsalve Suárez, The Orville, Universalism, utopia, Violence, Walter Benjamin

I know. This site is coming together rather slow

May 7, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

I still have about two dozen more Star Trek pre-written posts to add to this site. I then plan on writing posts about Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and The Orville. I also want to write about various science fiction books, but I am trying to figure out a way to do something more interesting than … [Read more…]

Posted in: Website Tagged: ActivityPub, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, books, bookwyrm, cloudflare, Hubzilla, network, Science Fiction, Scifi, self-hosting, Star Trek, TextPattern, The Orville, website, website development

Add this site to you rss reader/feed

April 20, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Please consider adding this site to your RSS reader/feed. Just add https://www.scifi.global/rss I myself added the site to my open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

Posted in: RSS, Website Tagged: rss, website

What separates the Borg Queen from Michael Burnham?

April 20, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

What separates the Borg Queen from Michael Burnham? On the surface the Borg Queen is composed of an archetype of a matriarch repeatedly referred to as the greatest evil Starfleet has encountered. Before Captain Janeway intentionally locates the Borg in Star Trek: Voyager’s “Scorpion,” (1997) she research previous Captain’s logs, JANEWAY: I’ve been looking through … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: Borg, Borg Queen, Captain Janeway, Chakotay, Discovery, Janeway, Michael Burnham, Picard, Q, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek First Contact, Star Trek Voyager, Trauma, Unimatrix Zero, Violence, Voyager, Wolf 359
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