The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek

Leimar Garcia- Siino is an independent scholar. She is the media reviews editor of the SFRA Review and has recently co-edited the special issue Global Utopian Film and TV in the Age of Dystopia for SFFTV with Sean Guynes. Sabrina Mittermeier is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in British and North American History at the University of Kassel, Germany. She is the author of A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle-Class Kingdoms (2021), the editor of Fan Phenomena: Disney (2023), and, with Mareike Spychala, of Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery (2020). Stefan Rabitsch is an Associate Professor in American Studies with the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. A self-declared "Academic Trekkie," he is the author of Star Trek and the British Age of Sail (2019), co-editor of Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching (2018), and co-editor of Fantastic Cities (2022).

Introduction: Open Hailing Frequencies

Part I: Television Series

1 Star Trek: The Original Series

Ina Rae Hark

2 Star Trek: The Animated Series

John Andreas Fuchs

3 Star Trek: The Next Generation

A. Bowdoin Van Riper

4 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Lisa Doris Alexander

5 Star Trek: Voyager

Leimar Garcia-Siino

6 Star Trek: Enterprise

Zaki Hasan

7 Star Trek: Discovery

Sabrina Mittermeier

8 Star Trek: Picard

Justice Hagan

9 Star Trek: Lower Decks

Ramón Valle-Jiménez

Part II: Movies

10 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Kevin Decker

11 Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

Stefan Rabitsch

12 Star Trek III: Search for Spock

Janet McMullen

13 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Una McCormack

14 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Agnieszka Urbańczyk

15 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Torsten Kathke

16 Star Trek Generations

Murray Leeder

17 Star Trek: First Contact

Ina Batzke

18 Star Trek: Insurrection

Igor Carastan Noboa

19 Star Trek: Nemesis

Katherine Bishop and Stefan Rabitsch

20 Star Trek (2009)

William Proctor

21 Star Trek Into Darkness

Nathan Jones

22 Star Trek Beyond

Peter Goggin

Part III: Transmedia and Franchising

23 Star Trek as Transmedia Storyworld

Dawn Stobbart

24 Star Trek as Franchise

Derek Johnson

25 Novels

Sean Guynes and Gerry Canavan

26 Comics

Gerry Canavan

27 Reference Works and Guides

Ria Narai

28 Board and Video Games

Stefan Hall

29 Music

Veronika Keller

30 Merchandise

Victoria Godwin

Part IV: Fandom and Paratexts

31 Fandom History

Karen L. Hellekson

32 Star Trek Fandom around the World

Larisa Mikhaylova

33 Fan Fiction

Katie Heffner

34 Fanvids

E. Charlotte Stevens

35 Fan Tourism and Conventions

Lincoln Geraghty

36 Fandom and Intellectual Property Rights

Rebecca Tushnet

37 Documentaries

Allison Whitney

38 Parody and Homage

Michael Robinson

39 Pornography

Michael Fuchs

40 Star Trek in the Classroom, Science, and Professional Lives

Elizabeth Baird Hardy

Part V: Social Themes

41 History and Historiography

Martin Gabriel

42 Sex and Romance

Carey Milsap-Spears

43 Environment and Ecology

Ali Sperling

44 War and Conflict

Mareike Spychala

45 Colonialism and Imperialism

E. Leigh McKagen

46 Religion and Spirituality

Douglas E. Cowan

47 Science and Technology

Amy C. Chambers and R. Lyle Skains

48 Medicine and Care

Jason T. Eberl

49 Language and Communication

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

Part VI: Social History

50 Race

Harvey Cormier

51 Gender

Danielle Girard

52 Queerness I: Representations of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People

Bruce Drushel

53 Queerness II: Transgender and Nonbinary Representation

Si Sophie Pages Whybrew

54 Disability

Olivia Johnston Riley

55 Age and Aging

Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

56 Nonhumanoid Alien Life

Will Tattersdill

57 Posthuman Life

Lisa Meinecke

58 Economic Systems

Jonathan Thornton

59 Ethics

Adam Kotsko

60 Utopia

Simon Spiegel