The Star Trek Universe

Franchising the Final Frontier
Herausgeber: Brode, Douglas; Brode, Shea T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays looks at the spinoffs of Star Trek and examines themes found in and among those various manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781442249851
• ISBN-10: 1442249854
• Artikelnr.: 42138051

Autorenporträt

Edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Douglas Brode Chapter One: Supernatural
Trek?: Science Fiction and the Re-Enchantment of the World Murray Leeder
Chapter Two: Holodock History: The Past as Present on the Final Frontier
Cynthia J. Miller and Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter Three: Stark Trek and the
Information Age: How the Franchise Inspired Future Technology Anthony
Rotolo Chapter Four: Forward to the Past: Miscegenation Constructs in the
Star Trek Mythos C. Denise Alessandria Hurd Chapter Five: Science Fiction
as Social Consciousness: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Star Trek: The Next
Generation Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki Chapter Six: Radically Borg? Gender
Identity vs. Narrative Paradigms in Star Trek Tama Leaver Chapter Seven:
Manifest Destiny in Deep Space: New Frontiers, Old Colonialism, and Borg
Assimilation Lynette Russell and Nathan Wolski Chapter Eight: "Resistance
is Futile": Cyborgs and The Borg David Gunkel Chapter Nine: Shakespeare in
Space: Bardolatry in Star Trek Melanie Lörke Chapter Ten: Toward a
Non-Dystopian Future: Romance and Realism in TNG Rebecca Barrileaux Chapter
Eleven: "An Original": TNG and Emersonian Transcendentalism April Selley
Chapter Twelve: Harmonies: Star Trek's Universe and the Galaxy of Gaming
Douglas Brown Chapter Thirteen: The Making of a Star Trek Video Game:
Voyager - Elite Force and Creative Collaboration Brian Pelletier Chapter
Fourteen: Plastic Bodies/Lost Accessories: TNG's Action Figures and the TV
Series Jonathan Alexandratos Chapter Fifteen: Fantastic Licensing: The
Ongoing Mission of Trek Comic Books Stefan Hall Chapter Sixteen: When Times
Are Hard: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters Lincoln Geraghty Chapter
Seventeen: Rebooting Utopia: Re-Imagining Star Trek for Post-9/11 America
Norma Jones  Index About the Editors and Contributors