Critical Star Trek Studies
Adam Kotsko, Adam Roberts, Gerry Canavan, Kalen, David K. Seitz, David Zacuto, Murray LeederCritical Star Trek Studies is a group blog dedicated to the rigorous analysis of Star Trek and related matters. (Views do not represent those of our employers.)
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In the Ruins of the Borg Empire
When we meet with the Borg in Voyager, they are already defeated. The image above comes from the episode “Blood Fever,” most memorable as the one where the awkward Vulcan Vorik wants to resolve his Pon Farr with Be’lana, who begins feeling...
SNW 4.10: What to expect when you’re expecting a Space Baby
The only thing that has made this highly questionable season of Strange New Worlds bearable for me is my anticipation of the write-up posts from so many different contributors — from familiar faces like Adam R., Gerry, and Kalen to new cont...
The Freudian Triad as Character Structure in Trek
An old notion of mine is that the trio of characters that carries TOS ‘works’ as well as it does because it actualises, or externalises, the triadic structure Freud identified in the human psyche. Kirk, our p.o.v. character, is the ego—as h...
SNW 4.9: What In The Jolly Thaumaturgical Fuck Was That
This is how I felt, too.
Let’s get the boilerplate out of the way: “Once La’An A Time” is another in SNW’s 4th-season series of ludicrous premises, and here the crew of Enterprise gets drawn into a world where magic is real, but where ever...
SNW 4.8: The Care and Feeding of Badmirals
“Orders of Magnitude” is a complicated juggling act that mostly keeps the balls in the air. I suspect it comes from a desire to deliver one of Star Trek’s stock plot lines, but this time it’s not a “weirdness on a derelict ship,” “wacky off...
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Adam Kotsko is a writer, teacher, and translator based in Chicago.
British writer
doomsayer, utopologist
I keep trying to do science and get distracted by other science. Teach folks stuff in the meantime, but probably mostly myself. Naturally stealthy. Smell like a tree.
Author of "A Different 'Trek': Radical Geographies of 'Deep Space Nine.'"
Not here for either a good or long time but for a secret, third time
I am myself and no other.
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