One scene. That’s all it took to undermine the worldbuilding of three episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. With a single scene, the series made its setting feel artificial and removed the weight from one of the show’s key sources of moral conflict — what one should do vs…

Dear mainstream media, Please shut your teeth. You heard me: shut your teeth. I’m the survivor of over thirty years of emotional and psychological abuse. The toll this abuse has taken on my mind and body is horrifying, and I will be dealing with its aftermath for years to come…

When we use the phrase “ahead of its time,” we tend to refer to ideas or products that appear progressive or new, or look to the future more than the present. Far less often do we use it to refer to something that failed because of the time in which…

This is not about escapism. This is not about escapism because, at its best, Star Trek wasn’t really offering escapism. It was a show that explored the issues of the present using a framework of a bright, optimistic future — a future where we had solved the major social problems…

“The most important lessons in life are all condensed into Senshado. But most people don’t realize that” — Mika, Girls und Panzer der Film As the father of a wonderful 3 year-old girl, one of my primary concerns is the life lessons that I will need to teach to prepare…

For background: This was originally posted on the Star Trek subreddit under the title “For Picard, can we maybe NOT do what it looks like it’s about to do?”. It was then immediately locked (and apparently removed) by the moderators. This is reproduced verbatim, with the only exception being a…

There is only one shameful moment in my 20+ year writing career, and it was all about racism. Years ago, I wrote a story titled For the Digital Green Fields of Aldamar, about subliminal messaging being used in Massively Multiplayer Games to control society. One of the main characters was…