Don’t Be Riker
“Yeah I love Star Trek too,” Shahid said enthusiastically. “But what do you think about Riker?” “Oh goooooodddd!” I groaned.
Star Trek Week
Star Trek Week: Boldly Going There
What better way to close out Star Trek Week then with a special episode of “Hard N.O.C. Life?” Joining Keith
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The Sisko, Part Three: Star Trek Into Blackness
I hate Roots. Never read the book, can barely watch more than 30 minutes of the mini-series, and have no
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The Making of “Spaced Out” or, How I Learned to Subvert Mainstream Sci-Fi to a Beat
My friends Noah, Ian, and I were sitting in Ian’s garage studio, trying to figure out what to do that
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Spock as Interplanetary Mixed-Race Muse
It seems that Spock and his mixed-species brethren and sistren haven’t served as multiracial muses only to me and fellow
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ST:NOC Revealed – Day Five
It’s Day 5 of ST:NOC and, at last, the full ST:NOC crew is revealed for your viewing pleasure! Joining the
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Why Starfleet?
[Ed. note: For Star Trek Week, we asked Will to re-post a piece that originally ran at WilliamBruceWest.com in 2011.]
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Nichelle Nichols, Original Badass
Black people were marching all over the South. Dr. King was leading people to freedom, and here I was, in
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ST:NOC Revealed – Day Four
Welcome to Day 4 of ST:NOC, and it’s an all-alien reveal in the categories of First Officer and Counselor/Chef/Shoulder to
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Maiden, Mother, Crone: Why Voyager Was Awesome
In honor of N.O.C.’s Star Trek Week, I’m reposting something I wrote about four years ago on my own blog. It’s
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The Sisko, Part Two: Unapologetic Blackness
Star Trek appeals — across generation, across gender, across language, across nationality — because from the very first episode it
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A Series of Carefully Selected Moments Over the Course of 35 Years
In all sincerity, I actually attempted to construct this in a more conventional narrative form, with the initial phase being
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How to Turn Your Toddler Into a Trekkie
In honor of Star Trek Week on The Nerds of Color, the School of Hard NOCs presents a little primer
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ST:NOC Revealed – Day Three
It’s Day 3 of ST:NOC, and we’re revealing our surprise picks for Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Security —
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Wounds, Spoons, and Ridges: The Education of Miles O’Brien
Lieutenant Stiles is a one-off character. He only shows up in “Balance of Terror” to be a bigot and learn
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The Sisko, Part One: Our Living Black Manhood
When I was a teenager, I liked to skip church. My parents attended different Baptist churches in my hometown, vibrant,
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Wednesday Comics: The Art of Juan Ortiz
Since it’s Star Trek Week, there are a lot of Trek comics that I could have discussed for the Wednesday
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My Grandfather Was My Dealer
Aside from being the most physically powerful man that I know of, my maternal grandfather was also the first nerd
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My Star Trek Blu-ray Dilemma
As you know, one of the reasons we at The Nerds of Color decided to celebrate Star Trek this week
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ST:NOC Revealed – Day Two
It’s time for the Day Two reveal of our first official ST:NOC crew (check out the earlier entries here)! Today,
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National Film Society Presents “Sulu’s Choice”
Seeing the results of the first round of The Nerds’ first ever Star Trek fantasy draft, it was not a
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Fears and Pointy Ears: Reflecting on Race and Romulans
“Balance of Terror” is rightfully considered one of the best episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), with anti-war
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All My Role Models Have Pointy Ears
It was probably not a coincidence that my adolescent Trekkiehood (and no, I’m not uptight over the whole -ie vs.
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