Episode 97: Memory Battles
Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast
English - May 10, 2020 16:55 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 96: Going Viral
Next Episode: Episode 98: Retconning the Romulan Supernova
Guest: Desun Oka
History is not just a list of facts, but a process of memory making; we get to decide how and why certain events from the past are remembered today. On this episode of Strange New Worlds, Mike is joined by historian Desun Oka to discuss the memory-inducing alien memorial from the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Memorial" and how real-life memorials—from the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. to the recently built comfort women memorials in California—transmit their meanings. Finally, how should the Coronavirus pandemic be remembered?
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