Susan M. Bernardo

The Self and Community in Star Trek

Voyager

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After they are pulled 70,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant, the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of others, and themselves. As the first extended, critical study dedicated to Star Trek: Voyager, this book examines how the series uses the physical distance from the crew's home quadrant and the effect this has on the dynamics among community formation, self-creation and a sense of place. Chapters cover topics such as time travel, leadership models, interspecies relationships, the impact of trauma, models of self-creation and individuality, environmental influences on groups and individuals, memory, nostalgia, and how spiritual experiences affect people. The holographic Doctor and the former Borg, Seven of Nine, stand out as complex and boundary-stretching figures.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Nr.79
• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781476667713
• ISBN-10: 1476667713
• Artikelnr.: 64187173

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Bernardo is professor emerita at Wagner College. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Shaping the Self through Memory, Narrative, and Love
Chapter One. Memory and Identity: Reading Minds and Replacing Narratives
Chapter Two. Programming Love, Art, and Loyalties: The Case of the Doctor
Chapter Three. Alien Attraction and Interspecies Romance
Part II: Examining the Past and Re-Creating the Self
Chapter Four. Trauma, Disability, and Seven of Nine: Working through the
Past and Imagining the Future
Chapter Five. "I did not experience that timeline": Time Travel and the
Importance of Community
Chapter Six. From Ray-Guns to Costume Drama on the Holodeck: Technology,
Nostalgia, and Losing Control
Part III: Community, Environments, and the Self
Chapter Seven. The Borg Collective and the Voyager Family: Building
Communities
Chapter Eight. Redefining Leadership and Alliances
Chapter Nine. "There's Coffee in That Nebula": Energy, Exigency, and
Ecosystems
Chapter Ten. Spiritual Encounters in the Delta Quadrant
Afterword. Star Trek: Discovery: Hybridity, Environments, and Multiverses
List of Episodes
Bibliography
Index