Race, Gender and Politics in Star Trek by Sal Creber

'Maybe the Universe chose me instead of vice versa.' How Neil deGrasse Tyson Became an AstrophysicistĪfter learning that there was a word associated with what he wanted to be when he grew up, at age 11, Tyson knew he would be an astrophysicist. Since then, Tyson has become one of the most renowned astrophysicists in the world, thanks to the moon and the Universe itself.

'I'm pretty sure I was starstruck in that moment,' Tyson said. I wanna know more about what's in the Universe,'' says Tyson.Īfter his first visit to a planetarium when he was nine, Tyson believed that perhaps his draw to the Universe wasn't a coincidence. It's a world with mountains and valleys and craters and shadows and gullies, and all of a sudden, the moon goes from just this object that you ignored most of your life to a place you say, 'Hey, I want to visit that. 'If you look at the moon through good binoculars or even through a simple telescope, oh my gosh, it's not just this thing in the sky.

Dax wants to restart their relationship, and the two women kiss, but the episode ends with the ex-wife deciding instead to move on.įinally, the 2016 feature film 'Star Trek Beyond' - set in an alternate 'Trek' universe - revealed that character of Sulu (John Cho) has a husband and daughter, though the husband character (played by the film's co-screenwriter Doug Jung) had no lines, and the characters only briefly hug on screen.(Credit: Neil deGrasse Tyson/Henry Holt & Company) Neil deGrasse Tyson and the UniverseĪs a kid, looking up through a pair of binoculars at the moon, Tyson was inspired to know more about the Universe. A 1995 episode of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' flipped that equation, with the female Trill Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) reuniting with a woman who was Dax's wife when Dax lived inside a male host. Crusher (Gates McFadden) falls passionately in love with a male Trill, but when the host body dies and the symbiont alien is placed in a female host, Crusher says she can't continue with the relationship. In the 1991 'TNG' episode 'The Host,' Dr.

The Trill species has also allowed 'Star Trek' to dip into queer issues, if tentatively. NBC OUT Comedian Niecy Nash comes out, shares joyful wedding photo with new wife

Race, Gender and Politics in Star Trek by Sal Creber