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Book Synopsis Despite the fact that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended over twenty-five years ago, there has yet to be a stand-alone assessment of the series. This collection corrects that omission, examining what made Deep Space Nine so unique within the Star Trek universe, and how that uniqueness paved the way for an altogether new, entirely different vision for Star Trek. If the Star Trek slogan has always been to boldly go where no one has gone before, then Deep Space Nine helped to bring in a new renaissance of serialized television that has become normal practice.
Furthermore, Deep Space Nine ushered in critical discussions on race, gender, and faith for the franchise, science fiction television and American lives. It relished in a vast cast of supporting characters that allowed for the investigation of psychosocial relationships--from familial issues to interpersonal and interspecies conflict to regional strife--that the previous Star Trek serie
Table of Contents
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
