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Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek : the original cast adventures / edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode ; contributors Victoria Amador [and seventeen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Star trek (Television program)--History and criticism.
- Star trek (Television program).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>This collection of essays looks at the groundbreaking impact of the original </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Star Trek</span><span> series (1966-1969) and the various themes that the show conveyed, not only during its run but in the subsequent film and cartoon versions featuring the original characters and cast members.</span></span>
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Wagon Train to the Stars"; 2 Of Television in the 1960s; 3 From Milton to Roddenberry; 4 Boldly Unruly; 5 Warp Speed; 6 From the United States to the Federation of Planets; 7 Minimalist Interiors/Imagined Exteriors; 8 Decaying Orbits; 9 "The Matter of Gender"; 10 Captain Kirk 4-Ever; 11 Pragmatism and Meaning; 12 Belief Systems in Star Trek; 13 "What Does a Starship Want with God?"; 14 Always Bring Phasers to an Animated Canon Fight; 15 The Audience as Auteur; 16 Sarek's Tears; 17 Authorial Primacy and Literary Adaptation; Index; About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek : the original cast adventures.
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