Author: Michelle Zamanian

Michelle Zamanian working on her MFA in fiction and screenwriting. Her favorite thing is analyzing television shows out loud regardless of audience. Her personality is somewhere between B'Elanna and Seven of Nine. Find her on Twitter @thorangethunder.

Me, Simon Tarses and the Effects of a Cold War

Michelle Zamanian • January 25, 2018

“The Drumhead” is an iconic episode of TNG because it powerfully addresses issues that lie among the basest instincts in human nature. Although “The Drumhead” is an allegory for McCarthyism in the 1950s and witch hunts in general, I watched…

Michelle Zamanian • February 28, 2017

Maybe it was just me, but my first run through Enterprise left me baffled and Malcom Reed was the center of my confusion. Malcom, at least to me, read as a tightly wound closeted character and I was excited…