Make ‘now’ count
One person can make a difference for persecuted LGBTQ people in dangerous situations Memory and imagination make much of our inner life nonlinear.
Friends who vanished 30 and 40 years ago remain as vivid to me as if we just met for dinner last week. One of science fiction’s strengths is that it can give us insights into ourselves by transporting us to other worlds.
In “The Inner Light,” a 1992 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise encounters a probe of unknown origin that transmits a “nucleonic beam” that scans the ship and renders Captain Picard unconscious for 25 minutes.
During that time, Picard experiences four decades of life and love on a planet whose civilization was wiped out a thousand years earlier when its sun went nova.
