Boarding the Enterprise : Transporters, Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek.
Title:
Boarding the Enterprise : Transporters, Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek.
Author:
Gerrold, David.
ISBN:
9781935618706
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Series:
Smart Pop
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Welcome Aboard the Enterprise -- Foreword: Still Trekkin' After All these Years -- Star Trek in the Real World -- I Remember Star Trek . . . -- All Our Tomorrows: The Shared Universe of Star Trek -- The Prime Question -- We Find the One Quite Adequate: Religious Attitudes in Star Trek -- Who Am I? Personal Identity in the Original Star Trek -- What Have You Done with Spock's Brain?!? -- Lost Secrets of Pre-War Human Technologies: Seat Belts, Circuit Breakers, and Memory Allocation -- Exaggerate With Extereme Prejudice -- To Boldly Teach What No One Has Taught Before -- Who Killed the Space Race? -- Alexander for the Modern Age: How Star Trek's Female Fans Re-Invented Romance and Heroic Myth in Their Own Image -- How Star Trek Liberated Television -- Being Better -- Appendix: Episode Reference.
Abstract:
Trekkies and Trekkers alike will get starry-eyed over this eclectic mix of essays on the groundbreaking original Star Trek series. Star Trek writers D. C. Fontana and David Gerrold, science fiction authors such as Howard Weinstein, and various academics share behind-the-scenes anecdotes, discuss the showâÂÂs enduring appeal and influence, and examine some of the classic features of the show, including SpockâÂÂs irrationality, ScottyâÂÂs pessimism, and the lack of seatbelts on the Enterprise. The impact of the cultural phenomenon on subsequent science-fiction television programs is explored, as well as how the show laid the foundation for the science fiction genre to break into the television medium.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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