Archive - September 8th, 2016

Deep Space Nine Is Star Trek’s Best World, Because It’s the Real World

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“The biggest message at the end of the day for Deep Space Nine is there are no easy endings. Our heroes don’t conclude their journey playing a friendly game of poker, they’re forced to sacrifice almost everything they have in order to try and make the universe a better place. Because that’s what you have […]

Deep Space Nine Is Star Trek’s Best World, Because It’s the Real World

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“The biggest message at the end of the day for Deep Space Nine is there are no easy endings. Our heroes don’t conclude their journey playing a friendly game of poker, they’re forced to sacrifice almost everything they have in order to try and make the universe a better place. Because that’s what you have […]

“Star Trek” in the age of Trump: Why we need to embrace its 50-year mission now more than ever

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“‘Star Trek’ first launched during a time of great unrest: the 1960s. The ground war in Vietnam had been launched in an effort to stop Communist expansion in Asia. On the homefront, racial tensions flared and violence erupted. Fears about overpopulation and environmental destruction haunted Americans. Yet here was a show whose multiracial, multiethnic, multinational […]

Media turn on Lauer for not fact-checking Trump

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“The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof wrote that the forum was ‘an embarrassment to journalism,’ while his colleague Paul Krugman wrote that ‘everyone knew this would happen,’ but Lauer didn’t ‘have a follow-up planned” for Trump’s answer.’” I’m not one to defend Matt Lauer, but also I don’t think Kristof gets to call anyone else […]