Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“All the essays are fun to read, and they pin their subjects just as you would expect… A must for Star Trek audiences and those who muse about the future of mankind living in communities in space alike.”—Popcultureshelf.com

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael G. Cornelius and Sherry GinnPart One. Narrative: Creating and Crafting the Story of Deep Space Nine“Every choice we make has a consequence”: Serialized Storytelling in Star Trek’s Episodic UniverseVal NolanThe Static Space Opera: Dispersed and Sedimental Saturation of the Star Trek StoryworldFlorent FavardThinking Space: Identity and Cognition in Deep Space NineFranklin R. HalprinTrauma, Psychological Development, and the Triumph of Kira NerysSherry Ginn“A very unformed being”: Odo’s Rhizomatic Journey Toward SelfhoodErin BellPart Two. Race, Gender, Religion: Examining Themes and Tropes Illustrated on Deep Space NineClass Division and Biopolitics in “Past Tense”Douglas RasmussenThe Unkillable Idea of Benny Russell: Afrofuturist Temporalities and “Far Beyond the Stars”Dylan Reid Miller(Un)Radical Feminism: Gender and the Limits of ImaginationRowan BellSisko’s Conversion Experience and the Secularism of William James: Exploring Faith, Religion, and the Visions of the ProphetsDrew ChastainTraversing/able Sacred Space: The Bajoran Wormhole as Spiritual JourneyMichael G. CorneliusEpilogueSherry GinnAppendix A: List of Deep Space Nine Episodes by SeasonAppendix B: List of ­Non–Deep Space Nine Star Trek Episodes Cited in TextAppendix C: Star Trek FilmographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“All the essays are fun to read, and they pin their subjects just as you would expect… A must for Star Trek audiences and those who muse about the future of mankind living in communities in space alike.”—Popcultureshelf.com

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael G. Cornelius and Sherry GinnPart One. Narrative: Creating and Crafting the Story of Deep Space Nine“Every choice we make has a consequence”: Serialized Storytelling in Star Trek’s Episodic UniverseVal NolanThe Static Space Opera: Dispersed and Sedimental Saturation of the Star Trek StoryworldFlorent FavardThinking Space: Identity and Cognition in Deep Space NineFranklin R. HalprinTrauma, Psychological Development, and the Triumph of Kira NerysSherry Ginn“A very unformed being”: Odo’s Rhizomatic Journey Toward SelfhoodErin BellPart Two. Race, Gender, Religion: Examining Themes and Tropes Illustrated on Deep Space NineClass Division and Biopolitics in “Past Tense”Douglas RasmussenThe Unkillable Idea of Benny Russell: Afrofuturist Temporalities and “Far Beyond the Stars”Dylan Reid Miller(Un)Radical Feminism: Gender and the Limits of ImaginationRowan BellSisko’s Conversion Experience and the Secularism of William James: Exploring Faith, Religion, and the Visions of the ProphetsDrew ChastainTraversing/able Sacred Space: The Bajoran Wormhole as Spiritual JourneyMichael G. CorneliusEpilogueSherry GinnAppendix A: List of Deep Space Nine Episodes by SeasonAppendix B: List of ­Non–Deep Space Nine Star Trek Episodes Cited in TextAppendix C: Star Trek FilmographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

“All the essays are fun to read, and they pin their subjects just as you would expect… A must for Star Trek audiences and those who muse about the future of mankind living in communities in space alike.”—Popcultureshelf.com

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael G. Cornelius and Sherry GinnPart One. Narrative: Creating and Crafting the Story of Deep Space Nine“Every choice we make has a consequence”: Serialized Storytelling in Star Trek’s Episodic UniverseVal NolanThe Static Space Opera: Dispersed and Sedimental Saturation of the Star Trek StoryworldFlorent FavardThinking Space: Identity and Cognition in Deep Space NineFranklin R. HalprinTrauma, Psychological Development, and the Triumph of Kira NerysSherry Ginn“A very unformed being”: Odo’s Rhizomatic Journey Toward SelfhoodErin BellPart Two. Race, Gender, Religion: Examining Themes and Tropes Illustrated on Deep Space NineClass Division and Biopolitics in “Past Tense”Douglas RasmussenThe Unkillable Idea of Benny Russell: Afrofuturist Temporalities and “Far Beyond the Stars”Dylan Reid Miller(Un)Radical Feminism: Gender and the Limits of ImaginationRowan BellSisko’s Conversion Experience and the Secularism of William James: Exploring Faith, Religion, and the Visions of the ProphetsDrew ChastainTraversing/able Sacred Space: The Bajoran Wormhole as Spiritual JourneyMichael G. CorneliusEpilogueSherry GinnAppendix A: List of Deep Space Nine Episodes by SeasonAppendix B: List of ­Non–Deep Space Nine Star Trek Episodes Cited in TextAppendix C: Star Trek FilmographyAbout the ContributorsIndex