Do you remember the TNG episode where a bold, independent woman rubs Picard the wrong way, makes an enemy of Riker, forces Crusher to face deeply unrecognized feelings, and enchants the Captain? Or when a disaster on an isolated planet…
The crew has been asked multiple times if we’ll be at Dragon Con this year. Unfortunately, the whole crew can’t make it, but I will be there, and I’ll be pretty busy with 17 panels. So, if you’ll be in…
I love the trope of alternate universes. It’s a very comforting concept: another universe, another version of reality, another me living another life. Somewhere I majored in Marine Biology. Somewhere Hillary Clinton is President. Somewhere everything is different, but I’m…
[Trigger warning: emetophobia] A few weeks ago I watched “Hollow Pursuits” for the first time. It was uplifting to me that Barclay and Geordi were able to discuss Barclay’s anxiety openly. Only recently did I become accustomed to talking about…
On a recent rewatch of Enterprise, I found myself conducting a thought experiment. Why not try replacing just one crew member, one white male, with someone just a little outside the box? I decided to flip out Malcolm, not because…
In the words of Lieutenant Tasha Yar, Data “see[s] things with the wonder of a child. And that makes [him] more human than any of us.” Perhaps that is why the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation chose an…
“In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.” – Gene Roddenberry I didn’t expect checking my work email to trigger an existential crisis last week,…
I was so angry when my mom died. Not for my own loss, as difficult as that was to process, but because I felt like she’d been ripped off. I’d watched her health deteriorate over the course of what seemed…