(This article contains spoilers up to Star Trek: Discovery Season 4.) Does rank still matter in an egalitarian organization like Starfleet? For many Star Trek characters, the answer is yes. Being promoted is a privilege and a responsibility which young…
(This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery up to Season 4.) Una McCormack’s novel Star Trek: Discovery: Wonderlands opens with protagonist Michael Burnham careening through time and space, having left everything behind—her crew, her family, her era—to keep valuable…
(This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery up to Season 4.) The first episode of Star Trek: Discovery opens with two Starfleet women, a captain and her first officer, talking about career options: specifically, whether the first officer is…
This March I had the privilege of attending the first Latinx Visions conference at the University of New Mexico that brought together scholars, artists, film makers and more who engage with Latinx speculative fiction. One of the panels, “Latinx Technologies…
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Discovery Season 4 Season four of Discovery was, for the most part, excellent. We had a first contact unlike any we’ve seen before. We saw Michael killing it as captain and Tilly thriving at Starfleet Academy.…
Holy cats! It’s time to talk about the most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery and it took us a double episode to do it justice. Joining us is Alison De La Cruz (Trek Table) to talk about the new…
We open on Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) and Dr. Ruon Tarka (Shawn Doyle) on Booker’s ship, hiding in an asteroid field as they construct Tarka’s weapon. With shaky nerves and steady hands the finish the job, and Booker is clearly…
Picking up a matter of hours after episode seven, Starfleet HQ is a-buzz with commotion as the officers scramble to locate the stolen spore drive prototype. Zadmiral Vance (Oded Fehr) leans into an officer for details just as President Rillak…