Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a "Many Texts" Theory of the Star Trek

Multiverse (Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington)

A Switch in Time: Nero's Disruptive Trickster Force in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (Sarah Beth Kiliman)

Khanned: Whitewashing Khan in Star Trek into Darkness (Lynnette Porter)

Race, the Final Frontier: Star Trek, Trump and Hollywood's

Diversity Problem (Penelope Ingram)

Star Trek into Colonialism (Bart Bishop)

Uhura and Linguistics of Star Trek (Olga A. Pilkington)

All Talk and No Action: What's a Girl Gotta Do to Get Noticed Around Here? (Teresa ­Cutler-Broyles)

"Throw a punch and kiss a girl": Gender and Sexualization

in the Kelvin Timeline (Andrea Whitacre)

Science Fiction and the New Trek Timeline (Ace G. Pilkington)

Priming the Multiverse: Contextualizing the Kelvin Timeline Through Gene Roddenberry's Original Narrative (Jessica ­Sellin-Blanc)

Illegible and Unacceptable Representation: The Liminality of Spock in Star Trek (2009) (Natashia Lindsey)

James T. Kirk, Ideal Citizen: Shifting Rhetoric for a New

Timeline (Cait Coker)

Conclusion: Is There a Future for Star Trek? (Ace G. Pilkington and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell)

About the Contributors

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Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York. The late Ace G. Pilkington was a professor of English and history at Dixie State University. He was the author or editor of eight books and had published more than 100 articles, reviews, short stories and poems.

In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek trilogy--featuring new, prequel adventures of Kirk, Spock and the rest of the original series characters, aboard the USS Enterprise--has brought the franchise to a new generation and perfected a process that is increasingly central to entertainment media: reinvigorating the beloved classic.
This collection of new essays offers the first in-depth analysis of the new trilogy and the vision of the next generation of Star Trek film-makers. Issues of gender, race, politics, economics, technology and morality--always key themes of the franchise--are explored in the 21st century context of "The Kelvin Timeline."