The Untold Story of “Am I Real?”, an EXTENDED Conversation about Star Trek Picard with SCSU Professor Mike Dando
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota EXTENDED INTERVIEW, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU English Professor Mike Dando about a recently published paper from him and some of his colleagues called “Am I Real?: Hybridity, Strategic Multiplicity, and Self-Actualization in Star Trek: Picard.” The paper offers an explanation of what it means to be inclusive, but it uses the age-old premise of science fiction that the best way to talk about something real is to use something unreal to do it.
