Star Trek Universe

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, graphic novelist, film historian, and multi-award-winning journalist. He is the coauthor (with Carol Serling) of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The Official 50th Anniversary Tribute (2009) and coeditor (with Leah Deyneka) of Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars, Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, and Dracula's Daughters. Shea T. Brode has an MA in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University Autonoma in Madrid. Douglas and Shea are the coeditors of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

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