Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays

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Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays ist ein Referenzwerk, das sich mit Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager beschäftigt.

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In 1995, Star Trek: Voyager brought a new dynamic to Star Trek's familiar, starship oriented, show. Lost 70,000 light-years in space, Voyager and its crew faced an uncertain and changeable future, echoing anxieties felt in the United States at the time. These fifteen essays explore 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 SF 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 Homer's 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 galaxy and the USA could be.

Beiträge

• "Far from gay cities and the ways of men": Exploring Wandering and Homecoming in The Odyssey and Star Trek: Voyager
• "From hell's heart, I stab a thee": Villain typologies of the Delta Quadrant
• "Caught between worlds": Religion and Star Trek: Voyager
• Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Kathryn Janeway Breaking the Glass Ceiling or Reinforcing Stereotypes?
• Millennial Girlhood and the End of Kes
• "Tuvix" and Feminist Ethics in the Delta-Quadrant
• "There's a women in there if you'd take the time to look!": Seven of Nines Problematic Feminism
• Disabling Resistance: Voyager and Federation Ideology
• B'Elanna Torres and the Hated Half: Negotiating Mxid Race/Species-Identity
• Foreheads, Bad Attitudes and Mothers: Dismantling the Nuclear Family
• Please State the Nature of your Humanity: The Doctor and the Quest to Find Personality in Technology
• Disturbing Parallel: the Shifting Politics of Racial Inclusion and Exclusion of Star Trek: Voyager
• The Politics of Nurturing: Gender, Care and Colonialism in Voyager's Female Friendships
• Lost in Space Without an Idea of Home: The Triumph of Neoliberal Depoliticization in Star Trek: Voyager
• Confessions of an Anti-Fan: Voyager, Fandom and Dislike