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The Worst Times Starfleet Got Its Ass Handed to It
Star Trek doesn’t shy away from showing conflict – and that includes times when the idealised world of Starfleet and the Federation get their worlds rocked.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Returns, With Old Traumas to Explore
Although time had passed on Star Trek: Discovery before its namesake ship jetted out of the 23rd century and into the far flung futures of the 31st, the series largely had other things to dwell on than the state of paradise in the wake of a devastating war with the Klingons. As Strange New Worlds…
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Star Trek’s Best Shore Leave Episodes
Star Trek in all forms is about stunningly beautiful people being extremely good at their jobs (or sometimes bad at them in a fun, very dramatic way — they’re always stunningly beautiful regardless). But sometimes even the hard workers of Starfleet need a little R&R — and Star Trek has often obliged with episodes about…
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What’s the Newest Language?
When the world’s languages get together for formal dinners, who sits at the kids’ table? While Arabic and Chinese settle heavily into their seats, burdened by the weight of millennia, which languages are still outside, on the swing set, savouring the summer night before Tamil tells them once more to get inside? Put less nonsensically,…