Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College and is author of several books, including Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital; Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory; and What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life.

"Combining the rigorous critical eye of a literary and political theorist and the encyclopedic knowledge of a devoted fan, Adam Kotsko offers an original, persuasive, ethical, funny, grim, and nevertheless hopeful examination of Star Trek’s twenty-first-century incarnations. Late Star Trek is a salutary intervention, a sustained, cogent analysis of what’s gone wrong, what’s gone right, and what possibilities remain for creative and critical storytelling in our late-neoliberal streaming era."-David K. Seitz, author of A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine"Adam Kotsko has written an eminently readable and deeply researched book on twenty-first-century Star Trek, providing an analysis that is both timely and long overdue. A must-read for anyone teaching, doing research on, or just thinking about this ever-growing franchise."-Sabrina Mittermeier, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek and Fighting for the Future: Essays on “Star Trek: Discovery”

• Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Star Trek in the Twenty-First Century 1. Enterprise: The End of One Long Road and the Beginning of Another 2. The Novelverse: The Longest Star Trek Story Ever Told 3. The Kelvin Timeline: A Blank Slate 4. Discovery and Its Discontents 5. A Darker, Grittier Picard 6. Minor Triumphs: Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds Conclusion: From Myth to Franchise Appendix 1. Star Trek Seasons and Films by Airdate, 2001 to Present Appendix 2. Key Events in Star Trek’s Fictional History Notes Index

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College and is author of several books, including Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital; Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory; and What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life.

"Combining the rigorous critical eye of a literary and political theorist and the encyclopedic knowledge of a devoted fan, Adam Kotsko offers an original, persuasive, ethical, funny, grim, and nevertheless hopeful examination of Star Trek’s twenty-first-century incarnations. Late Star Trek is a salutary intervention, a sustained, cogent analysis of what’s gone wrong, what’s gone right, and what possibilities remain for creative and critical storytelling in our late-neoliberal streaming era."-David K. Seitz, author of A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine"Adam Kotsko has written an eminently readable and deeply researched book on twenty-first-century Star Trek, providing an analysis that is both timely and long overdue. A must-read for anyone teaching, doing research on, or just thinking about this ever-growing franchise."-Sabrina Mittermeier, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek and Fighting for the Future: Essays on “Star Trek: Discovery”

• Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Star Trek in the Twenty-First Century 1. Enterprise: The End of One Long Road and the Beginning of Another 2. The Novelverse: The Longest Star Trek Story Ever Told 3. The Kelvin Timeline: A Blank Slate 4. Discovery and Its Discontents 5. A Darker, Grittier Picard 6. Minor Triumphs: Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds Conclusion: From Myth to Franchise Appendix 1. Star Trek Seasons and Films by Airdate, 2001 to Present Appendix 2. Key Events in Star Trek’s Fictional History Notes Index

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College and is author of several books, including Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital; Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory; and What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life.

"Combining the rigorous critical eye of a literary and political theorist and the encyclopedic knowledge of a devoted fan, Adam Kotsko offers an original, persuasive, ethical, funny, grim, and nevertheless hopeful examination of Star Trek’s twenty-first-century incarnations. Late Star Trek is a salutary intervention, a sustained, cogent analysis of what’s gone wrong, what’s gone right, and what possibilities remain for creative and critical storytelling in our late-neoliberal streaming era."-David K. Seitz, author of A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine"Adam Kotsko has written an eminently readable and deeply researched book on twenty-first-century Star Trek, providing an analysis that is both timely and long overdue. A must-read for anyone teaching, doing research on, or just thinking about this ever-growing franchise."-Sabrina Mittermeier, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek and Fighting for the Future: Essays on “Star Trek: Discovery”

• Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Star Trek in the Twenty-First Century 1. Enterprise: The End of One Long Road and the Beginning of Another 2. The Novelverse: The Longest Star Trek Story Ever Told 3. The Kelvin Timeline: A Blank Slate 4. Discovery and Its Discontents 5. A Darker, Grittier Picard 6. Minor Triumphs: Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds Conclusion: From Myth to Franchise Appendix 1. Star Trek Seasons and Films by Airdate, 2001 to Present Appendix 2. Key Events in Star Trek’s Fictional History Notes Index