Ethics, Experimentalism, and Hybrid Purpose: Navigating Science and the Military in <em>Star Trek: Discovery</em>

Cade

doi:10.5325/intelitestud.23.3.0389

Ethics, Experimentalism, and Hybrid Purpose: Navigating Science and the Military in Star Trek: Discovery

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies ◽

10.5325/intelitestud.23.3.0389 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 389

Author(s):

Cade

Keyword(s):

Star Trek ◽

The Military

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Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s1548450500005862 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 29-33

Author(s):

Darren Kew

Keyword(s):

Transition Program ◽

The Political ◽

High Stakes ◽

Political Class ◽

Soccer Match ◽

The Public ◽

The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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