Tag: Avery Brooks
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Homefront,” “Paradise Lost”
“Don’t kid yourself, Ben. This Pandora’s Box of yours…we’re opening it together.” Neither the consequence of patriotism nor nationalism, Starfleet Command wages a war against the citizens of Earth by way of fear-mongering. That’s a word we hear much more often these days. After a terrorist bombing is revealed to be the handiwork of the…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Rejoined”
“The forbidden love angle is all wrong for an episode of this type. There’s no reason former lovers in different bodies shouldn’t get together, and the rule smacks of fascism. Any rule that infringes upon another person’s privacy (or lays out conditions upon which we are permitted to love) is fascistic, and there’s nothing more…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Homefront,” “Paradise Lost”
“Don’t kid yourself, Ben. This Pandora’s Box of yours…we’re opening it together.” Neither the consequence of patriotism nor nationalism, Starfleet Command wages a war against the citizens of Earth by way of fear-mongering. That’s a word we hear much more often these days. After a terrorist bombing is revealed to be the handiwork of the…
Misadventures in Blissville 