‘Shiv’ Connects the Everyday and the Metaphysical

The Los Angeles Times

The foibles of norms we take for granted — and what it means to be “alien” — are examined from multiple angles as fully assimilated Shiv debates the subtextual nuances of Starfleet adventures with her father, a quick-witted modernist poet who fled the psychic burdens of post-colonial India for the elusive American dream of reinvented identity...