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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Adam KotskoPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781517919092ISBN 10: 1517919096 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 31 March 2025 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviews""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 ""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” Author InformationAdam 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |