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Everything Old is New Again – Enterprise: “Broken Bow”

“Everything old is new again” is an expression I have heard so many times. What if it was applied to Star Trek? What if the showrunners of Star Trek, when

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My “Second Contact” with Lower Decks

When I first learned about the existence of Star Trek: Lower Decks, I was extremely hesitant to watch it, having found that the original animated Star Trek series, with its

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A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Leadership in Discovery

“You reminded us of what we are to each other… that’s leadership.” — Sylvia Tilly One of the most important things to have in a crisis is strong leadership. Whether

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Three Plot Points Equal “Similitude”

A wise person once told me that every story written for a Star Trek episode has to have three plot points, and that they will come together at the end

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Star Trek: First Contact review

I had a strong conviction that the eighth Star Trek film, which would be the first solo big-screen production for the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, needed to be

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The Strong One: What Discovery’s “The Examples” Taught Me About Self-Care

“It is difficult to ride two valebeasts with only one set of buttocks.” — The wit and wisdom of Mister Saru Almost two years into this pandemic, I think it’s

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The Five Worst Times to Be a Child on the Enterprise-D

As a kid, there was nothing cooler to me than the Enterprise. All I wanted was to get beamed aboard and wander the ship. I’m sure most fans who got

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Voyager‘s “Caretaker” in Review

Star Trek: Voyager’s pilot episode, the two-part “Caretaker”, had to accomplish several goals. It needed to introduce nine regular characters, plus the premise of the series, as well as getting

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Why Pel Was My 1990s Queer Icon

A Short Reflection on My Favorite Ferengi A lot of fuss has been made of having openly gay, trans and nonbinary characters on Star Trek: Discovery. Even though I knew

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“Threshold” is the Reason I Became a Trekkie (And It’s Good, Actually!)

If you’ve spent any amount of time amongst other Trekkies, eventually this question will come up: what was the episode that got you into Star Trek? A lot of my

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