The Star Trek universe : franchising the final frontier /
A collection of essays examining the many incarnations that have arisen since the original program concluded its run in 1969. They consider the four television shows; literature, toys, games; and the motion pictures. Also addressed are how race, gender, and sexuality have been addressed over the yea...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gene Roddenberry's creation as an abiding pop culture phenomenon / Douglas Brode
- Supernatural Star trek?: Star trek and the re-enchantment of the world / Murray Leeder
- Holodeck history: past, present, and future on the final frontier / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- Star trek and the information age: how the franchise imagined/inspired future technologies / Anthony Rotolo
- Forward to the past: miscegenation constructs in the Star trek mythos / Denise Allesandria Hurd
- Science fiction as social consciousness: race, gender, and sexuality in Star trek: the next generation / Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki
- Radically performing the Borg?: gender identity and narratology in Star trek / Tama Leaver
- Manifest destiny to the stars: new frontiers, old colonialism, and Borg assimilation / Lynette Russell and Nathan Wolski
- Resistance is futile: cyborgs, humanism, and the Borg / David J. Gunkel
- Shakespeare in space: a Trek toward plurality / Melanie Lörke
- Toward a non-dystopian future: romance and realism in Star trek: the next generation / Rebecca Barrilleaux
- Enjoying an "original relation to the universe": Star trek: the next generation and Emersonian transcendentalism / April Selley
- Adaptive harmonics: Star trek's universe and galaxy of games / Douglas Brown
- The making of a Star trek video game: Voyager--Elite Force and creative collaboration / Brian Pelletier
- Plastic bodies and lost accessories: The Next generation action figures in relation to their TV origins / Jonathan Alexandratos
- Fantastic licensing: the ongoing mission of Trek comic books / Stefan Hall
- Help when times are hard: bereavement and Star trek fan letters / Lincoln Geraghty
- Rebooting Utopia: reimaging Star trek in post-9/11 America / Norma Jones.