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Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution

September 24, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

In the Babylon 5 season 4 episode, “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,” (1997) we are given a possible image that takes place a million years into the future where humans have evolved into beings of light. They have not forgotten the trials of the Babylon 5 station or its crew. They leave the solar system … [Read more…]

Posted in: Babylon 5, Star Trek Tagged: Babylon 5, Captain Kirk, Captain Pike, Emmanuel Levinas, Gorn, James T Kirk, Jim Kirk, Sam Kirk, Scotty, Star Trek, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Strange New Worlds, Uhura

Eddington is Right When He States that Utopia Requires Assimilation

July 31, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Michael Eddington is either loved or hated. Many (perhaps most) feel his betrayal of Starfleet as an agent for the Maquis was an emotive betrayal corresponding to matters deeply entrenched in the outlaying ethics of Starfleet ideas, goals, and the fight against oppression in the larger galactic equation. However, Eddington was not wrong when he … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Borg, Cardassian, Chakotay, Deep Space Nine, Dominion, DS9, Education Reform, Ethics, Maquis, Michael Eddington, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, utopia, Violence Studies, Voyager

Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

In a 1986 Good Morning America interview promoting the prime time show, Spencer, Avery Brooks was asked about another role he was playing in Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Showtime. The interviewer stated it was “against type casting, a very unusual thing” to which Avery Brooks replied, “No, not really. You know, I’m an artist. So … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Avery Brooks, Bajoran, Cardassian, Dax, Deep Space Nine, DS9, Jadzia, Jadzia Dax, Jake Sisko, Kai Opaka, Kira, Kira Nerys, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Tuvok’s Moral Middle Ground

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Tuvok was not without his forays into romance outside of the strict, sacred bond he held with his wife, T’Pel, in the Alpha Quadrant. True, there were manufactured instances of romance, such as in “Body and Soul” (2000) when Tom Paris prescribed Tuvok time in the holodeck with a hologram of his wife in order … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: BElanna, Captain Janeway, Deep Space Nine, DS9, Guill, Harry Kim, holodeck, holosuite, Janeway, Maquis, Marayna, Mari, Neelix, Noss, pon farr, Sisko, Solok, Star Trek, Star Trek Voyager, Teero Anaydis, Tom Paris, TPel, Tuvok, Voyager

Sylvia Tilly’s Kindness and Weaponizing Friendship

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Sylvia Tilly projects herself as a trusted ally early in the series when she immediately befriends Michael Burnham who at that point is still thought of through a negative light by everyone in Starfleet. Tilly’s key source of the literacy of kindness is how she weaponizes friendship.   Tilly bonds with everyone on Discovery, not just … [Read more…]

Posted in: Kindness Literacy, Star Trek Tagged: Airiam, Deanna Troi, Discovery, Ezri Dax, Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, Michael Burnham, mycelial network, Stamets, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Tilly

Data’s Kindness

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

Data is repeatedly referred to as successfully emulating humanity, though he would rarely agree according to his own self-assessment. Data went beyond human traits to capture and characterize exaggerated forms of basic kindness for which the crew was largely reminded of their own inner value. Data liberally exhumed these traits of kindness for all species … [Read more…]

Posted in: Kindness Literacy, Star Trek Tagged: Data, Deanna Troi, Dr Crusher, Exocomps, Geordi La Forge, Kindness, Picard, Prime Directive, Sarjenka, Star Trek, Star Trek The Next Generation, The Next Generation

Depersonalization and Violence in The Next Generation episode, “Violations,” and the Voyager episode, “Remember”

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

“I think no one can deny the seed of violence remains within each of us. We must recognize that, because that violence is capable of consuming each of us.” – Jean-Luc Picard  In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “Violations,” (1992) Counselor Deanna Troi is subject to forced thought insertion. What is highly important … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: BElanna, Betazoids, Chakotay, Dathan, Deanna Troi, Enarans, Jareth, Korenna, Mari, memory, mental health, Nimira, Picard, Star Trek, Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Tam Elburn, The Doctor, The Next Generation, Trauma, Ullian, Voyager

The United Traits of Bajoran and Cardassian Resistance

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

The heart of the Bajoran resistance was to cripple, stun, defeat, and alienate any element present of the Cardassian occupation. When Captain Sisko orders Colonel Kira to assist Damar with his struggling Cardassian uprising against the Dominion she is at first taken back. It is laughable. At the first instance of the suggestion and on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek, Trauma Tagged: Bajor, Bajoran, Cardassian, Damar, Deep Space Nine, Dominion, DS9, Elim Garak, Gallitep, Garak, Gul Darheel, Gul Dukat, Kira, Kira Nerys, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Trauma

Narrative Obtrusion and Difference in the Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” and Enterprise’s “Damage”

June 17, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

There is a highly reasonable, shared pattern of reluctant leadership for Captain Sisko and Captain Archer between the Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” (1998) and Enterprise’s “Damage” (2004). As Archer tells Dr. Phlox, amid almost complete destruction of the Enterprise, “I’m about to step over a line. A line I thought I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: Archer, Captain Archer, Casey Biggs, Damar, Deep Space Nine, Degra, DS9, Elim Garak, Enterprise, Garak, Grathon Tolar, Illyian, Phlox, Quark, Senator Vreenak, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Enterprise, TPol, Trauma, Vulcans

Holo-Morals

June 16, 2023 by Richard J Tilley

The holodeck, or holosuites, offer a grand rejection of reality. However, it is through that dismissal of the restraints of reality that we see the crews of Voyager and Deep Space Nine inject themselves into a cascade of criminal conduct. In the Voyager episode “Worst Case Scenario” (1997) and the Deep Space Nine episode “Badda-Bing, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Star Trek Tagged: BElanna, Captain Janeway, Dax, Deep Space Nine, Doctor Bashir, DS9, Enterprise, Ezri Dax, Ferengi, Gul Dukat, holodeck, holosuite, Kasidy Yates, Kira, Kira Nerys, Maquis, Miles OBrien, Odo, Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Tom Paris, Tuvok, Vic Fontaine, Voyager
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