Darmok and Jalad in the Upper Room
A recurring theme in some of the strongest episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation is the pursuit of understanding. You could almost say that this theme is a core value of the Star Trek universe as a whole. For…
What You Control Can’t Hurt You: Fear, Victimhood, and the Dominion
Fear takes many shapes. From cowering victim to preemptive striker, from passive aggression to dedicated isolationism, fear leads both people and societies to pretty much every extreme of reaction. Still, perhaps the most unexpected result of fear is, paradoxically, an…
“I Don’t Want Any More Cracks About The Book!”: Insights for Interpreting Sacred Texts from Star Trek
Sacred books and texts loom large in human civilizations, past and present. Yet such books and texts are scarce in Star Trek. Memory Alpha’s entry on “Sacred Texts” lists exactly 16 examples from the entire franchise. Is this dearth of…
Trektember: Season 5 Preview
Welcome to the fifth season of Trektember! We’ve now run longer than Enterprise, and boy has it been a long road…gettin’ from there to here. When we first launched Trektember back in September of 2016, there was no Star Trek…
Trektember TNG – #30: Retrospective
Well, that’s it. We did it. Again. (Did what? If you missed the entirety of Trektember, click here) This past month has been quite a ride; it was a completely different animal from last Trektember, which was also a great…
Trek Backstory, part 24 – The Next Generation’s Legacies
The legacy of Star Trek: The Next Generation was incredibly prolific; and it’s not over. The last edition of Trek Backstory is here.
Trektember TNG – #29: All Good Things…
Past, Present, Future: Our accuser is relentless. David Atwell is talking about “All Good Things…” today!