Foreword: On Not Liking Star Trek v

Una McCormack

Introduction vii

Amy H. Sturgis and Emily Strand

Part 1: Exploring the Series and Films 1

Chapter 1 “A Conservative World”: Greece, Rome, and
Stagnation in Star Trek: The Original Series 3

Daniel Unruh

Chapter 2 The Truth Is Out There (Specifically, the Delta
Quadrant): Star Trek: Voyager as 1990s
Conspiracy Culture 25

Edward Guimont

Chapter 3 Beyond the Wilds and the Waves:
Reevaluating Archer, the Armory,
and Enterprise 49

Amy H. Sturgis

Chapter 4 “Galloping around the cosmos is a game
for the young”: The Nostalgic Drives and
Generational Anxieties of Star Trek (2009)
and Star Wars Episode VII: The Force
Awakens (2015) 69

Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco

Part 2: Exploring the Ideas 87

Chapter 5 Darmok and Jalad on the Internet:
The Importance of Metaphors in Natural
Languages and Natural Language Processing 89

Kristina Šekrst

Chapter 6 Two Faces of the Same Coin: Star Trek’s
Federation and the Terran Empire 109

Javier Francisco

Chapter 7 “He Was a Son to Me”: Understanding Seven
of Nine as a Queer, Posthuman Parent 129

Erin Bell

Chapter 8 The Future Burning Brightly:
The Dual Impact of Energy in Star Trek’s
Post-Scarcity Universe 149

Martine Gjermundsen Ræstad

Part 3: Exploring the Multimedia Storytelling 169

Chapter 9 “Dif-Tor heh Smusma,” “Jolan tru,”
“NuqNeh”: Exploring the Glossopoesis
of the Star Trek Universe 171

Andrew Higgins

Chapter 10 Expanding Universes: Star Trek and Rise
of Multimedia Narratives 193

John Jackson Miller

Contributors 211

Index 215