Overview

In 1995, Star Trek: Voyager brought a new dynamic to Star Trek's familiar, starship oriented, show. Lost 70,000 light-years into space, the Voyager and its crew faced an uncertain and changeable future, echoing anxieties felt in the United States at the time. These fifteen essays interrogate the context, characters, and themes of Star Trek: Voyager, as they relate to the culture and zeitgeist of the 1990s. Essays on gender show how the series both challenges and reinforces typical sci-fi stereotypes through the characters of Captain Janeway, Kes and Seven of Nine, while essays on identity examine the show's intersections with disability studies, race and multiracial identities, family dynamics, and emerging AI and humanity. Using the epic journey of the Odyssey as a starting point for the series, and ending with an examination of the impacts of inception at the birth of the internet age, this book shows the many ways in which Voyager negotiated different perspectives for what the future of the universe and the USA could be.

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Author:   Robert L. Lively
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.384kg
ISBN:  

9781476678214

ISBN 10:   1476678219
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   30 May 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Foreword (Lincoln Geraghty) 1 Introduction (Robert L. Lively) 5 Part I. Ties to The Past: Voyager and Our Literary Heritage ""Far from gay cities and the ways of men"": Exploring Wandering and Homecoming in The Odyssey and Star Trek: Voyager (Kwasu David Tembo )15 ""From hell's heart, I stab at thee"": Villain Typologies of the Delta Quadrant (Andrew Howe) 32 ""Caught between worlds"": Religion and Star Trek: Voyager Camilo Peralta 49 Part II. Gendering the 24th Century: Problems, Solutions, Pathways Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Kathryn Janeway Breaking the Glass Ceiling or Reinforcing Stereotypes? (Michelle M. Tabit) 67 Millennial Girlhood and the End of Kes (Peter W.Y. Lee) 82 ""Tuvix"" and Feminist Ethics in the Delta Quadrant (Jeffrey Boruszak) 98 ""There's a woman in there if you'd take the time to look!"" Seven of Nine's Problematic Feminism (Sarah Canfield) 112 Part III. Negotiating Identities in the Delta Quadrant Disabling Resistance: Voyager and Federation Ideology (Daniel Preston and Craig A. Meyer) 133 B'Elanna Torres and the Hated Half: Negotiating ­Mixed-Race/Species Identity (Sherry Ginn) 149 Foreheads, Bad Attitudes and Mothers: Dismantling the Nuclear Family (Eileen Totter) 164 Please State the Nature of Your Humanity: The Doctor and the Quest to Find Personality in Technology (Ian Thomas Malone) 179 Disturbing Parallel: The Shifting Politics of Racial Inclusion and Exclusion in Star Trek: Voyager (Christian Jimenez) 194 Part IV. Broader Perspectives of the Future The Politics of Nurturing: Gender, Care and Colonialism in Voyager's Female Friendships (Rosy B. Mack) 213 Lost in Space Without an Idea of Home: The Triumph of Neoliberal Depoliticization in Star Trek: Voyager (Alex ­Burston-Chorowicz) 231 Confessions of an ­Anti-Fan: Voyager, Fandom and Dislike (Murray Leeder) 248 About the Contributors 265 Index 269"

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A delightfully entertaining and informative collection...recommended --Choice

Author Information

Robert L. Lively is a professor of English at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Popular Culture Review, Tormented Space, Wormhole Weapons, and The Worlds of Farscape: Essays on the Groundbreaking Television Series.

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