To Boldly Stay: Essays on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

ISBN-13: 9781476685403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 220 str.

Ginn, Sherry

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael G. Cornelius and Sherry Ginn
Part One. Narrative: Creating and Crafting the Story of Deep Space Nine
"Every choice we make has a consequence": Serialized Storytelling in Star Trek's Episodic Universe
Val Nolan
The Static Space Opera: Dispersed and Sedimental Saturation of the Star Trek Storyworld
Florent Favard
Thinking Space: Identity and Cognition in Deep Space Nine
Franklin R. Halprin
Trauma, Psychological Development, and the Triumph of Kira Nerys
Sherry Ginn
"A very unformed being": Odo's Rhizomatic Journey Toward Selfhood
Erin Bell
Part Two. Race, Gender, Religion: Examining Themes and Tropes Illustrated on Deep Space Nine
Class Division and Biopolitics in "Past Tense"
Douglas Rasmussen
The Unkillable Idea of Benny Russell: Afrofuturist Temporalities and "Far Beyond the Stars"
Dylan Reid Miller
(Un)Radical Feminism: Gender and the Limits of Imagination
Rowan Bell
Sisko's Conversion Experience and the Secularism of William James: Exploring Faith, Religion, and the Visions of the Prophets
Drew Chastain
Traversing/able Sacred Space: The Bajoran Wormhole as Spiritual Journey
Michael G. Cornelius
Epilogue
Sherry Ginn
Appendix A: List of Deep Space Nine Episodes by Season
Appendix B: List of ­Non–Deep Space Nine Star Trek Episodes Cited in Text
Appendix C: Star Trek Filmography
About the Contributors
Index