Author: Laurie Ulster

Laurie Ulster is a freelance writer and a TV producer who somehow survived her very confusing adolescence as the lone female Star Trek fan in middle school. She's an editor at TrekMovie, got her dream gig as the Supervising Producer of the late, lamented After Trek, and loves to talk about Trek and lots of other TV on Twitter @floobish.

“Mudd’s Women” and the Pitfalls of the Body Positivity Movement

Laurie Ulster • March 12, 2019

I’ve been struggling to pin down why the “think yourself beautiful” body positivity movement makes me so uncomfortable… and then, as has been the trend throughout my life, I found clarity in Star Trek. Still, I couldn’t have been more…

Laurie Ulster • May 16, 2017

A funny thing happened when I started writing about women in Star Trek. Okay, maybe it wasn’t so funny. I had to laugh to keep from banging my head against the wall—a strategy I’ve adopted in Trump’s America to avoid…