A Different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. politics, which deepened the foundations of many of our current crises, have been vindicated politically, to a degree most scholars and even many fans have yet to fully appreciate..
If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.
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Drawing on cultural geography, Black studies, and feminist and queer studies, A Different Trek is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9 \'s allegorical world-building.
Thirty years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy.
DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary U.
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DS9 extended Star Trek \'s tradition of critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star Trek \'s previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and interpersonal conflict.
The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.
Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a Space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation.
A Different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993
