When Captain Demora Sulu leads the crew of U.S.S. Enterprise-B on a mission near Tzenkethi space, they explore Rejarris II, a planet they cannot explain. A strange structure on the surface could hold answers, but when a landing party transports down to study it, chaos erupts. After communication fails with one officer and another is […]
The stalwart agents of the Department of Temporal Investigations have tracked down many dangerous artifacts, but now they face a greater, more personal challenge: retrieving a time-travel device stolen from their own vault by a rogue agent of the Aegis, a powerful, secretive group that uses its mastery of time to prevent young civilizations from […]
The Star Trek series has inspired not only armchair fans, but also the researchers who are trying to better the human race, developing the devices of the future, and struggling to conquer space travel. The Star Trek series was also the inspiration for this book, which examines the artificial intelligences portrayed in the shows. The […]
Our society dreams of making Star Trek’s technologies real. Scientists, computer technologists and science fiction media fans strive to bring to fruition: · the transporter with quantum entanglement · interstellar space travel with faster-than-light speed · time travel with fabricated wormholes · the Holodeck as the Holy Grail of virtual reality · universal communication with […]
This is an information-packed book detailing why people watch Star Trek (and television in general). Many different areas of Star Trek and general television viewing experiences are discussed. These areas include why people watch when they are in different moods or with different people, what they think they gain from watching, and a determination of […]
Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children’s lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.
Since 1966, Star Trek has become a unique multimedia phenomenon, encompassing an ever-growing number of television series and major feature films. This book traces the evolution of Star Trek from its earliest days, examining the role of its creator, Gene Rodenberry, and his various successors in the creation of a unique dramatic “universe” within which […]
The unbearable hedonistic delirium of unsated desire in the mass production of consumption as dissatisfaction… The inverted scream in the unrelenting inauthentication of Being… The eye which sees only as directed and assumes sight… The search for joy in the emptiness of consumer pleasure… The disembodied melody which reaches out into the lonely night of […]
Narratives links the currently most popular Literary/Cultural Theory with one of the most successful television productions of all times. The brief opening chapter gives a very concise introduction to the central concepts of postcolonial theory and the methodological background of this subversive reading of Star Trek. A mythology results, which poses the question: does popular […]
Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between “Star Trek” and ethnic equality, one of America’s most enduring social issues. Using two television series formed around a common vision and produced by the same studio and executive producer (Gene Roddenberry), Race in Space determines the extent to […]
Traveling at Warp 7: A Search for Star Trek by Jim Duriga traces one fan’s fascination with the world of Trek; it includes information about the shows, failed efforts, the movies, and a 1983 interview with actor James Doohan (Scotty).
Star Trek’s undiscovered country From the half-human Spock, to the “half-Borg” Seven of Nine, Star Trek is riven by inner conflicts — often unacknowledged. But it is only by examining these contradictions and paradoxes — the “doubleness” of Trek — that we can understand this popular TV/film series. Here’s a guided romp through Trek’s alternative […]
The authors of this text take the reader on a voyage through the brain and its construct, the mind, using anecdotes from “Star Trek” movies and episodes from the original “Star Trek” series, “The Next Generation”, “Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager”. It is equipped with a glossary of the main characters and a list of […]
“Lively, scholarly, substantive and unique… the fact that the book contains the author’s own case study examples of Star Trek and culture further enriches the… discussion.” –Dorothy Williamson-Ige, Chair –Communication Studies, Indiana University Northwest “Byrd addresses the relationships among stereotypes, self-identity, and images in popular culture. The text is an excellent choice for use in […]
Take a journey behind the scenes (and under the skin) of the worldwide Star Trek phenomenon. Here is a Trek book like no other: an insightful and often hilarious look at the mythmaking machinery behind the planet’s most enduring TV show. Best-selling travel writer Jeff Greenwald sets out to discover how Star Trek – launched […]
Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical spirit of inquiry with the beloved television and film series to consider questions not only about the scientific prospects of interstellar travel but also the inward journey to […]
What could possibly account for the scope and longevity of the Star Trek phenomenon? With legions of impassioned fans and a life span of 30 years and counting, the Star Trek television and film corpus has made Gene Roddenberry’s creation nothing less than an American mythology. Deep Space and Sacred Time examines for the first […]
Extremely rich in large format illustrations, the book covers all Star Trek series from birth with the first pilot The Cage up to the last Voyager series, exploring for each setting and characters with particular attention especially for stage objects (tricorder , Phaser, communicators) used in each series, which are provided with detailed photos and […]
Spock to Kirk: ‘Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons.’ This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the […]
When Next Generation premiered as a syndicated television program in the fall of 1987, it represented a new departure for Gene Roddenberry’s Trek universe. Set in the year 2364 (Stardate 41153.7), ninety-eight years after the beginning of the original series, the second TV outing starred Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes […]
