Star Trek TOS’s “Charlie X”: When Nostalgia Presents Things That Never Went Away

I haven’t seen all that many episodes of the original series Star Trek. I was raised on the movies, and I somehow obtained a book that novelized every episode of the first season. I read it as a kid. And, obviously, I saw “Amok Time” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,”…

Join This Fandom: Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe

There are dozens of online writers praising Rebecca Sugar’sĀ animatedĀ series Steven Universe, which is feminist, queer-positive, and generally amazing. Allow me to join them. Steven Universe is the comic, sentimental, epic story of a boy named, what else, Steven Universe, who is the newest member of the Crystal Gems. Said Gems…