When you love someone’s creation with the unvarnished innocence and enthusiasm of childhood, and yes, this can persist well into adulthood since it retains for perpetuity the shape and ardour with which it was formed, it’s hard to conceive of its creator as someone with raw, troubled humanity, in other Continue Reading
Further animated adventures far from the Bridge: Thoughts on Lower Decks (S2, E1-5)
Star Trek has a reputation for being very, VERY serious. It’s not undeserved, of course, since the franchise as a whole has its eyes firmly on the bettering of the human race in particular and the galaxy as a whole, an undertaking far into the future that is, by its Continue Reading