Ric Crossman

We're not about skewering bad science on this blog; not unless it's going to get us to the real juice.

Dream Catcher A nightmare on R'El Street When you're on the USS Protostar, every shore can mean shore leave. Sounds like a dream come true. Dream Logic Stories about the risks of our head-tales escaping confinement have been around for a while. In the Western canon, we can go back at least as far the 9th century, and Ovid's version of the tale of King Midas: he who dreamed of being able to turn all he touched to gold. That's was just a daydream, of course, which is to say; a fantasy. The...

Beta Test Figure 4: President of Betazed Emerin Sadal, during a diplomatic mission to Earth (SFA, "Beta Test") 2. Politics In this chapter, we will build upon our comments in the introduction regarding the general political tenor of Starfleet Academy, as initially explored by "Kids These Days". We note first that the show's political commentary is focussed not on deconstructing our present, but in constructing our future. More specifically, a foundational theme to the show is that said future...