Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (eBook)

Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, graphic novelist, film historian, and multi-award-winning journalist. He is the coauthor (with Carol Serling) of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The Official 50th Anniversary Tribute (2009) and coeditor (with Leah Deyneka) of Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars, Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, and Dracula’s Daughters.Shea T. Brode has an MA in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University Autonoma in Madrid. Douglas and Shea are the coeditors of The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Star Trek: In the Beginning, Roddenberry Said . . .Douglas BrodeChapter One - “Wagon Train to the Stars”: Star Trek, The Western Frontier, and American ValuesJohn WillsChapter Two - Of Television and the 1960s: Star Trek, Vietnam, and the Transformation of the United StatesH. Bruce FranklinChapter Three - Milton and Rodenberry: Structural Parallels between Star Trek II and Paradise LostShari Hodges HoltChapter Four - Boldly Unruly: Star Trek in PlayScott DuchesneChapter Five - Warp Speed: The Physics of Star TrekPhil KestenChapter Six - From the United States to the Federation of Planets: Star Trek and the Globalization of American CultureLane CrothersChapter Seven - Minimalist Interiors/Imagined Exteriors: Spatial Complexity in the Star Trek SagaMervyn NicholsonChapter Eight - Decaying Orbits: Men, Women, and Fear of Extinction in TOSIna Ray HarkChapter 9 - The Matter of Gender in “Metamorphosis”: Women, Romance, and the Queerness of DesireDavid GrevenChapter 10 - Captain Kirk 4-EVER: William Shatner as Romantic ObjectVictoria AmadorChapter 11 - Pragmatism and Meaning: Assessing the Message of TOSAnne Collins Smith and Owen M. SmithChapter 12 - Belief System in TOS: Secular Humanism, Traditional Religion, and Cultural ImperialismSara BoslaughChapter 13 - “What Does a Starship Need With God?”: Divinization, Deicde, and the Re-Affirmation of Faith in Star Trek I-VIMichael SmithChapter 14 - Always Bring Phasers to an Animated Canon Fight: Trek’s Saturday Morning Original Cast AdventuresDavid S. SilvermanChapter 15 - The Audience as Ultimate Auteur: Female Fans and Early Trek ‘Vidding”Francesca CoppaChapter 16 - Sarek’s Tears: Classical Music, Star Trek, and the Exportation of CultureDaniel Sheridan Chapter 17 - Of Authorial Primacy and Literary Adaptation: TOS and William Shatner’s “Captain’s Trilogy”Alexis FinnertyIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors