Star Trek Lower Decks Recap: “Empathological Fallacies”

The last time Lower Decks truly surprised me was in season two’s remarkable tri-perspective episode “wej Duj,” a compelling experimental story that examined the plights of lower deckers across all sorts of Star Trek vessels, not just Starfleet. It’s fitting then perhaps that in surprising me this week, it does so by making that episode’s … Read more

Star Trek Unusual New Worlds Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Charades

“Who’s Spock?” is a query Star Trek has been fascinated with from the very starting, and for good purpose. The paradox of the half-Vulcan, half-Human science officer lets us study the which means of what we see because the human expertise from the attitude of somebody each faraway from it and outlined by it—and Unusual … Read more