Description: This volume on Star Trek: Discovery brings together eighteen essays and one interview from a variety of disciplines including cultural and media studies, literary studies, history and political science. The essays examine the narratives and production history of the new series while situating it within the larger Star Trek franchise.
Brief description: Mareike Spychala is a lecturer and research assistant in American Studies at the University of Bamberg.
Review Quotes:
'From the philosophy of time travel and alternate dimensions to the fraught politics of representation in contemporary film and television, Fighting for the Future sets scholarly coordinates for the series that has redefined Star Trek for the twenty-first century.'
Gerry Canavan, Marquette University