Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11University of Calgary Press, 2006 - 168 strán (strany) The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles printed every year. Very few, however, have looked at Star Trek in terms of the dialectics of humanism and the posthuman, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity. In Drones, Clones and Alpha Babes, Diana Relke sheds light on how the Star Trek narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States, using these as portals to the sociopolitical and sociocultural landscapes of the United States, pre- and post-9/11. From her Canadian perspective, Relke focuses on Star Trek's uniquely American version of liberal humanism, extends it into a broader analysis of ideological features, and avoids a completely positive or negative critique, choosing instead to honour the contradictions inherent in the complexity of the subject. |
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... assimilation are cut into the scene . Picard now has to confront the truth of what was really involved in that terrifying assault . - Cranny - Francis relates Picard's assimilation to " the social crisis over authority , which ...
... assimilation and should have relocated to another planet long before now . " It's their home ! " rebuts Janeway , who is in the sixth year of yearning for her own home and thus admires the Brunalis ' determina- tion to protect theirs ...
... assimilation : what they can't assimilate , they can't understand . “ But we don't assimilate , we investigate , " says Janeway , “ and in this case that's given us the edge . ” To prevent the Borg from merely assimilating Voyager and ...
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