Leadership
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From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “Strange New World,” (2001) T’Pol attempts to caution Captain Archer and his crew about visiting the uninhabited planet they discover. She wants to take...
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The Orville’s “Mad Idolatry” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “Sacred Ground” as a Lesson in Explanatory Ethics
In The Orville’s “Mad Idolatry” (2017) Kelly Grayson violates initial contact protocol with a lesser developed species to assist a girl who had hurt herself. Kelly heals the girl and...
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The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”
The Star Trek: Voyager episode, “The Gift,” (1997) was clearly largely influenced from the Babylon 5 episode, “Mind War” (1994). In both episodes there is a.) the build-up/evolution of psychic...
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Anti-Utopian Leadership
What is clear is that utopian science fiction offers us insights into what can be, and dystopian science fiction presents the most abysmal than can or is likely to come...