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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

Trauma and Post-Modern Subtext in Star Trek

April 20, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

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 upon herself in “Extreme Risk” as the solution to coming to terms with the holodeck grotesque imagery she created upon learning of the fate of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: Aamin Marritza, Bajor, Bajoran, BElanna, Cardassian, Curzon Dax, Dax, Deep Space Nine, DS9, Gul Darhe’el, Gul Dukat, holodeck, Jadzia, Kira, Kira Nerys, martyrologies, Occupation, Odo, oppression, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Terok Nor, terrorism, Trauma, Vaatrik, Vaclav Havel, Voyager

Deviance, Occupation, and Terrans

April 20, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

When the crew of Discovery crosses into the mirror universe, they embark on a path of willingness to cross moral boundaries. This is largely at the guidance of Lorca, who for reasons later discovered has his own primary deviance to tally for the benefit of the limited few that does not include Michael and the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: Archer, Ash Tyler, Bajor, Bajoran, Cardassian, Deep Space Nine, Discovery, DS9, Gabriel Lorca, Jadzia, Lorca, Michael Burnham, Mirror, Mirror Universe, Philippa Georgiou, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Discovery, Terran, Trauma, Voq

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