May 31, 2018
Starfleet and the US Space Agency.
When The Original Series debuted in 1966, the Apollo program was in
full swing, although it wasn’t until after the show’s final episode
aired three years later that humans landed on the moon. In the
succeeding years, NASA and Star Trek became increasingly
interdependent....
May 19, 2018
Shrinking Sci-Fi and DS9’s “One Little Ship.”
Ever since 1957’s black-and-white classic The Incredible Shrinking
Man, stories involving size-altering accidents have been a science
fiction staple. In 1973, Star Trek: The Animated Series provided
its own pint-sized kids’ adventure with “The Terratin...
May 9, 2018
Federation Politics in Star Trek.
The United Federation of Planets is at the heart of Star Trek’s utopian vision of a deeply complex future society, though relatively little interest has been shown in the nuts and bolts of the organization’s democracy and governance. The machinations of the Klingon High Council have...