Tag: Babylon 5
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The Conflict and Promises of Revisiting the Past and Seeing into the Future
I want to return to a previous post, “On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism” and the ethics of interpreting oneself with the present moment, detached from the...
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“I know what is written”: Babylon 5’s “Believers” (Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Part II)
Just as Lieutenant Alara Kitan was successful in resisting the surrounding dominance of the realities of imposed Ideal Theory, there are occasions in which that resistance can be met with...
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The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”
The Star Trek: Voyager episode, “The Gift,” (1997) was clearly largely influenced from the Babylon 5 episode, “Mind War” (1994). In both episodes there is a.) the build-up/evolution of psychic...
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Anti-Utopian Leadership
What is clear is that utopian science fiction offers us insights into what can be, and dystopian science fiction presents the most abysmal than can or is likely to come...
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Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution
In the Babylon 5 season 4 episode, “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,” (1997) we are given a possible image that takes place a million years into the future where humans...
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I know. This site is coming together rather slow
I still have about more pre-written Star Trek posts to add to this site. I then plan on writing posts about Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and The Orville. I also...