Category: Commentary

Starfleet Academy and the Comments That Proved the Point

Starfleet Academy Bomber Jacket(Beth Turnage Blog) When Quora decided to drop my take on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy into 13,000 inboxes, I expected disagreement. I did not expect a case study. Because that’s what the comment section became—not a debate about storytelling, but a live demonstration of exactly why this show matters. Starfleet Academy isn’t perfect. No first […]

Relax—#ChatGPT will not steal our #writing jobs

Nearly ten years ago, before ChatGPT was a twinkle in its creators’ eyes, in one (nearly finished) I wrote, two of my characters created a program they called Timebender they used to predict future events based on information models fed into it to make military and business decisions. Highly proprietary, only three people in the […]