Self and Community in Star Trek: Voyager

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Beskrivning

After they are pulled 70,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant, the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of others, and themselves. As the first extended, critical study dedicated to Star Trek: Voyager, this book examines how the series uses the physical distance from the crew's home quadrant and the effect this has on the dynamics among community formation, self-creation and a sense of place. Chapters cover topics such as time travel, leadership models, interspecies relationships, the impact of trauma, models of self-creation and individuality, environmental influences on groups and individuals, memory, nostalgia, and how spiritual experiences affect people. The holographic Doctor and the former Borg, Seven of Nine, stand out as complex and boundary-stretching figures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:249 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Antal sidor:187
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476667713

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Mer om författaren

Susan M. Bernardo is a professor emerita at Wagner College. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Shaping the Self through Memory, Narrative, and LoveChapter One. Memory and Identity: Reading Minds and Replacing NarrativesChapter Two. Programming Love, Art, and Loyalties: The Case of the DoctorChapter Three. Alien Attraction and Interspecies RomancePart II: Examining the Past and Re-Creating the SelfChapter Four. Trauma, Disability, and Seven of Nine: Working through the Past and Imagining the FutureChapter Five. “I did not experience that timeline”: Time Travel and the Importance of CommunityChapter Six. From Ray-Guns to Costume Drama on the Holodeck: Technology, Nostalgia, and Losing ControlPart III: Community, Environments, and the SelfChapter Seven. The Borg Collective and the Voyager Family: Building CommunitiesChapter Eight. Redefining Leadership and AlliancesChapter Nine. “There’s Coffee in That Nebula”: Energy, Exigency, and EcosystemsChapter Ten. Spiritual Encounters in the Delta QuadrantAfterword. Star Trek: Discovery: Hybridity, Environments, and MultiversesList of EpisodesBibliographyIndex