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STAR TREK: PICARD: How Michael Chabon's MAPS AND LEGENDS influenced the series
Devoted viewers of Star Trek: Picard will already be familiar with the phrase “Maps and Legends,” given that it is the title of the second episode of the first season of the series. However, that episode, written by Akiva Goldsman and Michael Chabon, takes its title from a 2008 collection of Chabon’s nonfiction essays. Far from being a simple re-appropriation of a favored title, the connection between the collection of essays and the storytelling philosophies on display in Pi

Avery Kaplan
3 days ago8 min read
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