‘Star Trek’: Where Have All the Starships Gone?
After the events of 9/11, many Star Trek fan clubs and online role playing ships disappeared from view. How do I know? I was one of the people in those communities.
Star Trek At 50
Star Trek’s Utopia: Dilemmas of the Early 21st and Late 24th Centuries
How do you challenge utopia in utopian ways when the utopia itself seems flawed?
‘Star Trek’ and the Evolution of “The Kiss” Controversy
From its first interracial kiss on TV in 1968 to the interspecies relationship in the reboot, Star Trek wants viewers to understand what it means to be mixed race and have interracial relationships.
What Is ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Trying to Accomplish?
Can the rebooted film franchise keep what is special about Star Trek, but boldly go where no director has gone before?
‘Star Trek’ and the Problem With B-4 and After 2379
What is it about this moment in time that renders the Star Trek franchise incapable of envisioning its own future?
I Can Do Zat!: Anton Yelchin’s ‘Star Trek’ Legacy
Remember how Yelchin wrestled with vampires, neo-Nazis, pirates, and adultery to earn his place as Chekov aboard the USS Enterprise?
‘Star Trek’: Space-Time Compression and the Eventual Death of Money
Did Gene Roddenberry realize how “Marx-like” the world he imagined was?
Nation-Building on Bajor: Why ‘Deep Space Nine’ Is Really the Post-9/11 ‘Star Trek’
Despite debuting in the early '90s, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine offers timely insights into 21st-century global politics.
Future Technology in the ‘Star Trek’ Reboots: Complex Future(s)
Star Trek doesn’t foretell a type of future as a concrete inevitable outcome and final destination, it presents us with a fictional diegetic vision of how the world could be.
Future Technology in the ‘Star Trek’ Reboots: Tethered and Performative
If space is the “final frontier”, then the technology that facilitates the adventure is one of the central mechanisms by which we can learn new things about ourselves and our society.
Just How Heroic Is Star Trek’s “I Don’t Like to Lose” James T. Kirk?
Captain James Tiberius Kirk sets the benchmark by which we can measure the decline of the “hero” into anti-heroism.
Star Trek at 50
On 8 September 1966, the sci-fi television show Star Trek aired its first episode, setting into motion a chain of events that would leave no aspect of pop culture unchanged.