Angela Korra'tiSep 12, 2025

I kinda love this essay. Lovely comparison of character tropes and plot beats that Star Trek and Master and Commander have in common. And yeah, I'm always partial to calling out that Master and Commander was an _amazing_ movie. <3

And in particular, since this essay calls out several similarities between Jack Aubrey and James T. Kirk, I'd be willing to bet that a big part of this is that the Aubrey-Maturin novels _and_ Star Trek owe a fair amount of debt to Horatio Hornblower!

https://reactormag.com/master-and-commander-is-a-great-star-trek-movie/

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Why Master and Commander Is a Great Star Trek Movie in Disguise - Reactor

Guided by naval structure and a captain who adores his best friend (the ship's doctor), the two series have more than a few items in common.

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Show threadJustin Waring 🐋

@annathepiper Yes, definitely the world-building feels a part of lots of good Star Trek writing.

An older essay on Reactor covers this ground too: https://reactormag.com/not-a-moment-to-be-lost-patrick-obrians-aubrey-maturin-series/

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"Not a moment to be lost": Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series - Reactor

On my way to MilPhil, the 2001 Worldcon in Philadelphia, I was re-reading The Fortune of War, Book 5 of Patrick O’Brian’s twenty volume Aubrey-Maturin series. On the bus in Newark taking me to the connecting plane, I saw a stranger reading Book 18, The Commodore. “Are you going to Worldcon?” I asked. She was. […]

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