Contending with Social Constructs

A look at Ava's curious new gem and celebrating Star Trek: Picard

Hello from Hancock Park! It’s a bright, brisk day in the shadow of Paramount Studio… which might soon become an also-ran piece of the Warner Brothers-Discovery empire or be the flagship entity of Skydance’s growing media conglomerate.

I hope the later. As 20th Century Fox became an anorexic step-child after the Mouse House merger, and I don’t want to se…