While growing up, Azula often asked about Ula of the Forest Green, the great-grandmother she never knew, Mother of Tetachee. Lore says very little about her origin. Where she came from was a mystery even to U-Dan-Ada, the elder. A Panther at birth, one of three, maturing after learning to hunt with her mother and [...]

People who subscribe to karma usually define it as good or bad and think of resolution as the culmination of a particular karma. If viewed as a cause and effect relationship or as an energy with corporeal impact, its interpretation will usually be affected first by how one defines “resolution”. Most causes have multiple effects, [...]

My mind was adrift as I meditated on the flame of the lit candle in the room. It was the third door that led to the Valley of Tondo, an archway into another place of existence, another dimension that had appeared before me when I first encountered the secret of Itnahsiv. I had discovered that [...]

Assuming that time is the only relevant factor, most escape thinking about the inevitable by living in the present. Aging sets in. Life becomes increasingly cramped as the space of movement becomes more restricted by boundaries. Sounds muffled as if submerged, indistinct, unclear from all directions. Light sensed, periodic brightness perceived then muted quietly, subtle [...]

As my lists of the worst Star Trek-TNG episodes expand from previous posts (see below), it’s time to balance the scales and give high praise to those forty-seven minute stories that captured the very best glimpse of the Twenty Fourth Century envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. The creation, development and outcome of the Borg storyline which [...]