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…do I have to be?” Inverting “Star Trek’s” Original Liberalism This clear-headedness had evaporated by December 1991, when the movie sequel “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” appeared, only months…

…single television season without a Star Trek series on the air. For a while, during the late-1990s runs of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” there were…

…handled the roll-out of “Star Trek: Discovery” as its prime feature, “Star Trek Voyager” was to be the flagship program of the newly launched UPN network in January of 1995,…

…the rebooted Star Trek movies. That is worrisome, because the recent films have not delivered on some of the essential aspects of Star Trek’s appeal. What is it that Star…

…Since “Star Trek: The Next Generation” went off the air in 1994, the franchise has undergone big changes. Films helmed by Abrams have fully altered the “Star Trek” universe, creating…

…rather than something from the rational-technological universe of Star Trek. Similarly, Federation ships coming out of warp speed now look exactly—exactly—like Star Wars ships popping out of hyperspace, a basic…

…based on a survey of her readers, the actual appeal of Star Trek is that it presents a kind of ideal capitalist workplace. In Star Trek, the work is meaningful;…

Star Trek is among the most prominent works of science-fiction television. The Star Trek universe is the brainchild of the late Gene Roddenberry and has, with a few interruptions, been…

…sent me a link to a recent podcast for science-fiction fans, in which political commenter Ana Marie Cox puzzles over the fact that Ted Cruz is a big Star Trek…

…like “Battlestar Galactica” where Starbuck is now a woman in an entirely newly imagined story (and even that caused quite the uproar). “Star Trek” has not been re-imagined. Sulu is…

…young people raised reflexively to avoid acknowledging that there is any definite difference between men and women. So there’s an idea for the next Star Trek movie: “Star Trek: Beyond…

Once considered the territory of the super dork, Star Trek has come a long way. I used to get teased for loving “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and braced for…

Spoilers abound.  “Star Trek” has always sailed the cosmos on the unearthly wind of left-wing pieties, but a message more inhuman than mere collectivism and leftism emerges in “Star Trek:…

…some sense of civilization over the past 5,000 years with men at the helm? “Star Trek: Discovery” is the successor of 50-plus years of the Star Trek universe as well…

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s” sixth episode, “Q-Less,” brings back two recurring characters from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG) in a plot that has the crew racing against the…

…not just the guaranteed minimum income idea, but also the rest of the welfare state. He calls it a “Star Trek” economy. We have a system that has high unemployment,…

Episode 10 of the first season of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (“The Nagus”) introduced a recurring character, Grand Nagus Zek, who would become beloved by fans. It also was…

Science fiction and fantasy have gone mainstream in the past few years, and sci-fi television is finally getting the respect it has long been due. When “Star Trek: Deep Space…

The frontier semi-lawlessness of the station is a big part of what makes “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (DS9) unique in the Star Trek universe. Far from the perfected world…

What happens when rebels become rulers? It’s a question asked time and again in our history. It’s also a significant theme on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” as the Bajoran…

Alone among the various incarnations of Star Trek, the “Deep Space Nine” series included one of the great motivating factors of human behavior throughout our history: religion. In “Battle Lines,”…

Writer and novelist Walter Mosley has quit his job on CBS’ “Star Trek: Discovery” after an anonymous complaint about him from the writers’ room surfaced. Writing in the New York…

…never listen to a woman (the Ferengi are Star Trek’s most capitalist and most misogynist species). But Keiko suggests that a Federation-style education might give Nog a competitive advantage someday…

…unity for the village. Is the cycle of the Dal’Rok and the Sirah religion or mere flimflammery? In typical Star Trek fashion, the supposedly mystical origins of the Dal’Rok are…

…to Disney, Star Wars was what Lucas said it was. He not only knew better than anyone what Star Wars is, no one else knew at all. “Star Wars,” according…

…worthy of being a Star Wars film has heated up once again. What follows is one lifelong fan’s take on the film, the franchise, and life in the Star Wars…

…fiction in their formative years was “Star Trek,” whether “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” (TNG) for people my age, or the Original Series for those older. “The Orville” features McFarlane…

…timeline of Star Trek’s previous incarnations. Then he gave up the only advantage of this approach — freedom from existing story lines — by pilfering old Star Trek stories for…

One of baseball’s most unique aspects is the outsize role of the starting pitcher in each game, reflected in the fact that only a pitcher (usually the starter) is assigned…

…at Wookieepedia don’t know what the phrase means, but I’m starting to wonder if Favreau and Filoni are using it as the “Star Wars” equivalent of “Frak” from Battlestar Galactica….

…Starbuck’s dream and suggests it is a message from Starbuck’s mother Socrata (Dorothy Lyman), causing Starbuck to leave in anger. Starbuck later tells Anders how her mother abused her, including…

…government, European media, and the politics of Star Trek. “You have these attacks, it alters people’s belief in Western civil society,” Rogan said. “The anger is also reflected against politicians,…

…on in syndication, building what became an incredible fanbase of Trekkies (or Trekkers). The show even spawned conventions where the stars of the shows and movies appear for panels, presentations,…

…Williams pulls “Star Wars” together. Star Wars Is Full of Memorable Characters “Star Wars” also introduced perhaps the most memorable villain in all of cinema, Darth Vader. Encased in a…

This past week on Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: Rebels” TV show, time travel officially came to Star Wars canon. A too-common aspect of Star Trek, time travel has been absent from…

…damaged Basestar, trailing vapor. The Raptor is struck by debris, knocking Starbuck unconscious. When Starbuck awakens, the Raptor is aboard the Basestar. Eights approach Athena about rebelling against the Sixes’…