Critical Star Trek Studies
Adam Kotsko, Adam Roberts, Gerry Canavan, KalenCritical 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.)
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 122 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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SNW 4.3 ‘Dude, Where’s My Shuttle?’
It’s fair to say that we in this group-blog are not finding much to praise in this latest series of Strange New Worlds. I’d hazard that the most recent episode is unlikely to shift the dial on that. I’m prepared to be contradicted on this i...
Watching First Contact in Context
This week I hit a major milestone in my elaborate chronological Star Trek rewatch: the film First Contact. In terms of in-universe lore, there was virtually no pay-off to watching it in sync, because the Borg attack in the film comes out of...
SNW 4.2: What if you were haunted by regret, but like — literally?
Wow, that was a terrible episode! It combined a poorly paced, lackluster horror plot—one that failed to generate any tension, interest, or even superficial jump scares—with “character arcs” that indulged in the worst form of prequelism.
T...
Xenia in Utopia
Adam Kotsko has noted how Star Trek series after TOS have often used formal devices like retroactive continuity and narrative devices like time travel to establish their own centrality to the franchise. In the linked article, his key exampl...
SNW 4.1: Prehistoric Predestination Paradoxes
I can’t believe it’s already back. It feels like only yesterday that we breathed a sigh of relief that a lackluster season of Strange New Worlds had finally been put out of its misery. Discuss it we must—and discuss it we shall! After exper...
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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.
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