Description
Book Synopsis 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
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments v
- Foreword (Lincoln Geraghty) 1
- Introduction (Robert L. Lively) 5
- Part I. Ties to The Past: Voyager and Our Literary Heritage
- "Far from gay cities and the ways of men": Exploring Wandering
- and Homecoming in The Odyssey and Star Trek: Voyager (Kwasu David Tembo )15
- "From hell's heart, I stab at thee": Villain Typologies of the Delta Quadrant (Andrew Howe) 32
- "Caught between worlds": Religion and Star Trek: Voyager
- Camilo Peralta 49
- Part II. Gendering the 24th Century: Problems, Solutions, Pathways
- Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Kathryn Janeway Breaking
- the Glass Ceiling or Reinforcing Stereotypes? (Michelle M. Tabit) 67
- Millennial Girlhood and the End of Kes (Peter W.Y. Lee) 82
- "Tuvix" and Feminist Ethics in the Delta Quadrant (Jeffrey Boruszak) 98
- "There's a woman in there if you'd take the time to look!"
- Seven of Nine's Problematic Feminism (Sarah Canfield) 112
- Part III. Negotiating Identities in the Delta Quadrant
- Disabling Resistance: Voyager and Federation Ideology (Daniel Preston and Craig A. Meyer) 133
- B'Elanna Torres and the Hated Half: Negotiating
- Mixed-Race/Species Identity (Sherry Ginn) 149
- Foreheads, Bad Attitudes and Mothers: Dismantling
- the Nuclear Family (Eileen Totter) 164
- Please State the Nature of Your Humanity: The Doctor
- and the Quest to Find Personality in Technology (Ian Thomas Malone) 179
- Disturbing Parallel: The Shifting Politics of Racial Inclusion
- and Exclusion in Star Trek: Voyager (Christian Jimenez) 194
- Part IV. Broader Perspectives of the Future
- The Politics of Nurturing: Gender, Care and Colonialism
- in Voyager's Female Friendships (Rosy B. Mack) 213
- Lost in Space Without an Idea of Home: The Triumph
- of Neoliberal Depoliticization in Star Trek: Voyager (Alex Burston-Chorowicz) 231
- Confessions of an Anti-Fan: Voyager, Fandom and Dislike (Murray Leeder) 248
- About the Contributors 265
- Index 269
