(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…
At Mission Chicago crewmember Jarrah joins a panel called “The Future is Female” with DS9’s Chase Masterson, Dr. Lucila Rocines and Ke Roth, moderated by Amy Imhoff, to talk about how the stories of Trek women continue after their time…
Arguably, one of the most important functions of science fiction as a genre is its ability to construct future realities uninhibited by current technological limitations and social inequalities. Madeleine Clark recently published a thought-provoking article on The Mary Sue titled,…
Mother of Klingons Mary Chieffo returns to the show for a deep dive into the role of women in Klingon culture. We discuss the Klingon fixation with Honor, how Klingon women have succeeded despite the patriarchy, and how the Klingon…
What does it mean for a woman to seek power? This charged question is still coursing through our national political dialogue in the United States, where six women have already announced that they are running for President in the 2020…
The crew is joined by Mary Chieffo, L’Rell of Star Trek Discovery, to discuss her deep-dive into Trek canon, the changes in L’Rell’s character from Season 1 to 2, how her struggles in the Klingon Empire can reflect our own,…
“When the future becomes the past, the present will be unlocked.” – Tenavik Previously on Star Trek Discovery: The Disco crew still can’t figure out where the seven signals came from and The Red Angel aka Burnham’s mom (Sonja Sohn)…
At their cores, Discovery and Deep Space Nine are connected not just through their many Trek-y things in common, but through their overarching themes of loss, redemption, and hope. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on season…