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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788284803321

Titolo

Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek : the original cast adventures / / edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode ; contributors Victoria Amador [and seventeen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

791.4572

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<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>