Star Trek aired during the Apollo program and the early Civil Rights movement. The writers understood that era, and the bridge casting reflected it with a Russian navigator, a Black comms officer, and an Asian helmsman. Each portrayed by people with real history touched by the characters' identities. To round it out, allegories for real human struggles abound in each episode.

Fox In Motion has a similar aim in keeping space for what the world could be through art, music, and stories. As I write this, the hopeful Starfleet Academy premiered under similar circumstances, complete with another moonshot underway and confused commentators who imagine a version of Star Trek that only existed if you ignored the cultural commentary and focused on Kirk's heroics.

That's what Fox In Motion is about: the world is a lot, so we need to keep space for joy. Discussing those things honestly is part of that enjoyment.

Hello. I'm Flux, and I make a lot of Star Trek references. I enjoy the fact that Farscape is full of muppets, and I like to quote Kaylee saying “Oh, crime” from the train heist episode of Firefly. And I don't pretend like there aren't problematic aspects in the art and media we all care about.

In Flux: TV shows, movies, books, art, music. Stuff people made. Basically: what I'm interested in right now and how I think about it.

Gone Fichen': Interesting stuff found in archives of printed media.

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News From Earth: You ever think about how we're all standing on a thin layer of dirt over a sea of fire and death? Yeah, me neither. This is about the stuff that happens above the dirt, and below space. At least until the Enterprise arrives from the future, again, to save us.

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