The Star Trek Guide to our Culture, by J.L. Reiter

After two years of Covid, we’ve all watched a good deal more archive TV than we care to admit. On the positive side, my bulk-viewing of the Star Trek franchise has cast a new light on the series’ impressive ability to predict, or at least foreshadow, the future. Not taking the various re-boots in order, I am in the middle of Deep Space 9, a spinoff from