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Star Trek has existed in our universe (and presumably everywhere else in the multiverse) for more than 50 years. In that time we've grown from the early days of Capt. Kirk, Spock and Bones, to Picard and Riker and Data. The legacy has lived on beyond The Next Generation, with spinoffs Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise on TV, and a parallel series of films with an all-new cast. And with ...
This post contains spoilers for Supergirl The portrayal of transgender folks in film and television is a veritable minefield of shock-mongering, well-intentioned problematics, and straight-up bigotry. It’s easy to see why many transgender folks opt to relate to the art they consume on an allegorical and symbolic level rather than a literal representational one. After all, the biggest pop cu...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of last week's episode here. Of all the places I expected Discovery to take its penultimate episode of the season, I was not expecting it to perform an extended Die Hard riff, complete with a winking nod to John McClane in the form of Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) losing her shoes. It’s a bizarre s...
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery. Check out our review of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 episode 6. Well, they can’t all be winners. Okay, okay, “Scavengers” is far from the worst Star Trek: Discovery has ever been, nor is it even a particularly bad episode. But it’s also a disappointing one, as it isn’t so much interested in telling a ...
This article contains spoilers for season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery. It was not that long ago that, if you were a queer or trans person, there wasn’t a whole lot of reflection of yourself in popular culture, at least not in any positive or affirming sense. The refuge that many writers and viewers adopt — trying to relate a marginalized experience — is by using allegory. Star T...