To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek by Nadine Farghaly,Simon Bacon

March 3, 2017 by admin

By Nadine Farghaly,Simon Bacon

In 2016, Star Trek—arguably the preferred technological know-how fiction franchise of all time—turned 50. in the course of that point the unique sequence and its quite a few offshoots have created the various genre’s so much iconic characters and reiterated a imaginative and prescient of an egalitarian destiny the place people not discriminate opposed to race, gender or sexuality. This selection of new essays presents a well timed learn of ways good Star Trek has lived as much as its personal beliefs of inclusivity and equality, and the way ready it really is to boldly pick all people into the subsequent part century.

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