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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

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

Seven of Nine and Unexpected Kindness

April 20, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Seven of Nine is established in Star Trek: Picard’s “Stardust City Rag” (2020) as a mother figure; loving and in the continuous pain of having lost who she refers to as “my child,” Icheb, to Bjayzl and those who murder Borg (and former Borg) for their cybernetic implants. This is not the first time we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Kindness Literacy, Star Trek Tagged: astrometrics, BElanna, Bjayzl, Borg, Captain Janeway, Chakotay, Fenris Rangers, Harry Kim, holodeck, Icheb, Janeway, Jeri Ryan, Kindness, Naomi Wildman, Neelix, Picard, Seven, Seven of Nine, Star Trek, Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Voyager, The Doctor, Voyager

Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi

April 19, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Imagine a Star Trek future where the Xindi-Avian species did not become extinct. The Xindi still went on to become Starfleet allies thanks to Captain Archer, and as seen in the future through crewman Daniels’s; a future where some Avians – presumably with other Xindi – migrated to Earth, flying above San Francisco liberated in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Archer, astromycology, Bajor, botany, colonization, Deep Space Nine, Discovery, DS9, ecology, Enterprise, environment, Environmentalism, Eugenics Wars, Klingon, Picard, Romulan, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek Picard, StarTrekTOS, Xindi

Violence, Art, and Star Trek: Picard (season 1)

April 19, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Do not tell us violence is part of life. You can reflect violence without seeking to replicate it. To indulge in violence only reflects that the artist does not understand violence and how it intersects life. There is no common interest in gratuitous violence for the course of the matter and to do so is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: Art, Picard, Star Trek, Star Trek Picard, Trauma, Violence

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