Star Trek and the British Age of Sail

The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films

Stefan Rabitsch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

279 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6463-7 (ISBN)

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The future of Star Trek is modelled on the world of the British Golden Age of Sail as it is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. Star Trek and the British Age of Sail re-historicizes and remaps the origins of Star Trek and subsequently the entirety of its fictional world - the Star Trek continuum - on an as yet uncharted transatlantic bearing.

Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum...

A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after all, also pitched as "Hornblower in space." Star Trek is modeled on the world of the "British Golden Age of Sail" as it is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. This book re-historicizes and remaps the origins of the franchise and subsequently the entirety of its fictional world--the Star Trek continuum--on an as yet uncharted transatlantic bearing.

Stefan Rabitsch is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Graz and also teaches at the University of Klagenfurt. His research and teaching are predominantly in American cultural history, together with a focus on science fiction studies across media. He lives in Graz, Austria.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Usedviii

Preface

Introduction: These Are the Voyages…

Part I: Elementary, Dear Trekker (A Primer)

1. Logical, or at Least Plausible: Genre and Science Fiction

2. Space. The Final Frontier

3. Maritime Histories

Part II: Rule, Britannia! Britannia Rules Outer Space in Star Trek! (A Voyage)

4. “Off the starboard bow”: Star Trek’s Naval Corpus

5. “All I ask is a tall ship”: Sailing the Ocean of Space

6. “Captain’s prerogative”: Star Trek’s Hornblowers in Space

7. “Take her out”: Nautical Traditions and Re-imagined Nautical Life in Space

8. “The benevolent empire of good intentions”: Star Trek’s Neo-Enlightenment

Conclusion: What You Leave Behind

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6463-3 / 1476664633
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6463-7 / 9781476664637
Zustand	Neuware