Jun 20, 2018
Star Trek’s fathers: the good, the bad, and the absent.
“Other people have families,” Dr. McCoy lamented in Star Trek V:
The Final Frontier, apparently forgetting about his own daughter,
Joanna. For a utopian vision of the future, Star Trek tends to
offer a decidedly unflattering portrayal of fatherhood. Many
of...
Jun 13, 2018
Compared with the occupation of Bajor, a violent and traumatic event which cast a long shadow over Deep Space Nine, the brief Dominion–Cardassian administration of the station at the start of the sixth season seems at first like a pretty soft alternative.
The six-episode arc focusing on life under Dominion rule...