A different trek : radical geographies of Deep Space Nine
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A different trek : radical geographies of Deep Space Nine
(Cultural geographies + rewriting the earth / series editors, Paul Kingsbury, Arun Saldanha)
University of Nebraska Press, c2023
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-286) and index
Contents of Works
- Preface: Beyond Uhura, "Beyond Vietnam"
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction: Reading Racial Capitalism from DS9
- 1. The Radical Sisko
- 2. Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization
- 3. Jem'Hadar Marronage and the Dominion "Order of Things"
- 4. Defetishizing the Ferengi
- 5. O'Brien Family Values
- 6. Empire's Queer Inheritances
- Conclusion: "This Darker Thing"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. 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. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary U.S. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy.
Thirty years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction. 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. If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.S. 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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface: Beyond Uhura, "Beyond Vietnam"
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Dramatis Personae
Introduction: Reading Racial Capitalism from DS9
1. The Radical Sisko
2. Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization
3. Jem'Hadar Marronage and the Dominion "Order of Things"
4. Defetishizing the Ferengi
5. O'Brien Family Values
6. Empire's Queer Inheritances
Conclusion: "This Darker Thing"
Notes
References
Index
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