Star Trek: Picard Thoughts – Elnor

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It’s been a great pleasure to watch Star Trek: Picard. My feelings about its ups and downs (mostly ups) are very well summed up by [personal profile] selenak here, so I won’t do a general review here. Instead, I want to post some thoughts on dear underdeveloped Elnor, who I hope will get more to do in season 2.

Elnor really is underdeveloped. His relationship with Picard, which is his emotional center, is much more “tell” than “show,” despite a lengthy flashback when he’s first introduced. I can’t say he’s one of the series’ standout characters, but I do think he may be conceptually the most interesting for me.

Elnor is an example of one of the things I yearn for most in science fiction, one of the key reasons SF&F are useful genres for me: an exploration of a truly different cultural perspective, a truly different stance toward life. light spoilers )

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Arwen Spicer
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Arwen Spicer is a science fiction writer and writing teacher raised in the San Fransciso Bay Area, and Northern California will hold her heart forever, even if it turns into a desert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on ecology in utopian science fiction and is an educator on the concept of workable utopias. Her novel The Hour before Morning was hailed as “A carefully paced, rewarding sci-fi debut” by Kirkus Indie.

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Arwen Spicer

Arwen Spicer

Arwen Spicer is a science fiction writer and writing teacher raised in the San Fransciso Bay Area, and Northern California will hold her heart forever, even if it turns into a desert. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on ecology in utopian science fiction and is an educator on the concept of workable utopias. Her novel The Hour before Morning was hailed as “A carefully paced, rewarding sci-fi debut” by Kirkus Indie.

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