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).
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The Double Vision of Star Trek: Half Humans, Evil Twins, and Science Fiction
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 […]
Star Trek On the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds
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 […]
Multicultural Communication and Popular Culture: Racial and Ethnic Images in Star Trek
“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 […]
Future Perfect: How Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth
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 […]
Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant
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 […]
Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos
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 […]
Star Trek in Italy
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 […]
NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America
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 […]
Confessions of a Trekoholic
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 […]
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
“Get a life” William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a “life,” a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active […]
Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth
Enterprising Women is a study of the worldwide community of fans of Star Trek and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favorite series. This community includes people from all walks of life — housewives, librarians, secretaries, and professors of medieval literature. Ninety percent of its members are […]
The Unauthorized History of Trek
Beam up for: The operation that almost cost Spock his ears The woman who wouldn’t stay green The fortune-teller who predicted McCoy’s success The Leonard “Nimsy” Christmas parade Harlan Ellison’s letter writing campaign Attack of the Nielsens! The spacecraft design the U.S. Navy stole … and much, much more! Here are the stories behind the […]
Star Trek: An Annotated Guide to Resources
Star Trek was first beamed into peoples homes in 1966 and when it went off the air three years later it was on its way to being the most successful failure in television history. Along the way it spawned nine feature films, three new television series, novels, books, video and audio tapes, records, computer games, […]
Empire, Aliens and Conquest
A critique of American ideology in Star Trek and other science fiction adventures. On land, on sea and now in space, the United States in its tactics and goals seems as ruthless and instrumental as the Soviet Union. The powerlessness of everyday individuals comes to the forefront when we recognize how little impact peace protest […]
Star Trek: Good News in Modern Images
In this important study, religion and science fiction meet – in the best tradition of both. Students and teachers of human values, as well as the legion of Star Trek fans, will find this workbook study an exciting, invaluable guide through the entrancing world of Star Trek. The enduring TV series has long been regarded […]
Star Trek: Envoy: A Captain Sulu Adventure
While on the U.S.S. Excelsior, Captain Sulu receives top priority orders to proceed by shuttlecraft to Starbase Three. He is to act as the Federation’s envoy to a historic peace ceremony between the Krikiki and the Den-Kai — the two dominant, warring races in that sector. Sulu’s role is to hand over a young Krikiki […]
Star Trek: Transformations: A Captain Sulu Adventure
In the most spellbinding Star Trek audio program ever, experience the incredible sensation of ambisonic 3-D sound as it envelops your mind and transports you to the center of the action in STAR TREK: TRANSFORMATIONS, the first Captain Sulu audio adventure. Star Date 11611.8: As Starfleet diplomat Captain Hikaru Sulu speeds alone across the galaxy […]
Star Trek: Cacophony: A Captain Sulu Adventure
SULU MUST QUIET A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR Cacophony, the second Star Trek adventure created solely for audio, takes off in an explosion of ambisonic 3-D sound for the most elaborate Star Trek audio program ever. On the planet Stentor, silence is not only golden, it is the key to maintaining peace […]
The Trekmaster: Trek Trivia Quiz
2000 of the hardest Trek trivia questions this side of Starbase 101. What is the name of the Vulcan Secret Service? Which famous sci-fi author wrote the script for City on the Edge of Forever? What was the name of Picard’s Weapons Officer on board the U.S.S. Stargazer? In which film is a naked Marina […]
