Fandom & Culture
Once La’an a Time and Knowing How the Story Ends
A fairy-tale world gives La’an the chance to confront another version of herself, while Pelia discovers that knowing the story may not mean accepting its ending.
Fandom & Culture
Essays about Star Trek, science fiction, fandom, storytelling, and the ways the stories we love help us understand the world around us.
Fandom & Culture
Orders of Magnitude and the Stories We Inherit
A rogue admiral, a stranded away team, and several familiar Star Trek ingredients raise questions about inherited stories, confident leadership, and choosing what is right.
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Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass and Everything We Leave Unsaid
Strange New Worlds turns the Enterprise into a daytime soap opera and uses the experiment to explore grief, connection, and everything its characters leave unsaid.
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I Thought I Was Going to a Star Trek Convention
My first Star Trek Las Vegas convention became a story about fandom, friendship, belonging, and what it means to finally meet your Trek community.
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Off-Hour and What Holds When Everything Else Starts Breaking
A countdown clock threatens the Enterprise, but the heart of “Off-Hour” lies in the relationships, lessons, and trust already holding its crew together.
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Level-Five Transporter Accident and the Strange Things That Make Us Ourselves
Strange New Worlds turns the Enterprise crew into puppets and somehow finds something revealing beneath the felt, detachable limbs, and deeply suspicious lack of shoes.
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A Case of Chiaroscuro and Everything Between Black and White
Una Chin-Riley enters a black-and-white mystery that reveals how much of life, loyalty, and identity exists somewhere between the obvious answers.
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Human Best Friend and the People Who Get Under Our Skin
A gloriously unpredictable Strange New Worlds episode explores the people who challenge us, irritate us, understand us, and become important almost without permission.
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The Griffin Incident and the Courage to Keep Exploring
The Griffin Incident sends Strange New Worlds into horror territory and asks what exploration costs when curiosity encounters something genuinely terrifying.
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Valles Marineris and the Courage to Live in the Present
Ancient Mars, time travel, dinosaurs, and an uncertain future give Christopher Pike a difficult challenge: remaining fully present in the life he has now.
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What Star Trek Taught Me About Hope
Star Trek does not present hope as wishful thinking. It imagines hope as effort, belonging, and the stubborn choice not to abandon one another.
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It's Madonna, People
One surprise Coachella appearance gives my Gen X heart a moment and raises questions about Madonna, cultural memory, relevance, and who gets to decide when an artist matters.