Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery
The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek's well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences' changed viewing habits in the streaming age - and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series' megatext.

This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.
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Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery
The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek's well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences' changed viewing habits in the streaming age - and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series' megatext.

This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.
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Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery

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Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery

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The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek's well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences' changed viewing habits in the streaming age - and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series' megatext.

This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789621761
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 07/31/2020
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP , #67
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Sabrina Mittermeier is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg.

Mareike Spychala is a lecturer and research assistant in American Studies at the University of Bamberg.

Table of Contents

Preface
Sherryl Vint
Introduction
Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala

'Boldly Going Where No Series Has Gone Before?' - Discovery's Role Within The Franchise and Its Discontents

Looking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery
Andrea Whiteacre
A Star Trek About Being Star Trek: History, Liberalism and Discovery's Cold War Roots
Torsten Kathke
The Conscience of the King - Or: Is There In Truth No Sex and Violence?
John Andreas Fuchs
These Are the Voyages?: The Post-Jubilee Trek Legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister
Michael G. Robinson

'Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change' - Modes of Storytelling in Canon and Fanon

From Series to Seriality: Star Trek's Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era
Ina Batzke
'Lorca, I'm Really Gonna Miss Killing You' - The Fictional Space Created by Time Loop Narratives
Sarah Bohlau
Discovery and the Form of Victorian Periodicals
Will Tattersdill
To Boldly Discuss: Socio-Political Discourses in Star Trek: Discovery Fanfiction
Kerstin-Anja Munderlein

'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations?' - Negotiating Otherness in Star Trek: Discovery

Afrofuturism, Imperialism, and Intersectionality

Interview on Normalizing Black Women as Heroes
Diana Mafe
The Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery
Whit Frazier Peterson
The American Hello: U.S. Representations of Diplomacy in Star Trek: Discovery
Henrik Schillinger & Arne Sonnichsen
Into A Mirror Darkly: Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery
Judith Rauscher

Interrogating Gender

Star Trek Discovers Women: Gender, Race, Science, and Michael Burnham
Amy C. Chambers
Not Your Daddy's Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery
Mareike Spychala
'We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Makes Me Remember' - Gabriel Lorca, Ash Tyler and the Question of Masculinity
Sabrina Mittermeier & Jennifer Volkmer

Queering Star Trek

'Never hide who you are': Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery
Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala
'I never met a female Michael before': Star Trek: Discovery between Trans Potentiality and Cis Anxiety
Si Sophie Pages Whybrew
Veins and Muscles of the Universe: Posthumanism and Connectivity in Star Trek: Discovery
Lisa Meinecke
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