Star Trek Studies Online

Film Studies For Free (its mission: to explore strange new academic worlds, to seek out Open Access film and media studies scholarship) brings you its Enterprising link list of freely-accessible, online Star Trek studies. Live long and prosper ('strike up the theme tune, Scotty...'). Last updated May 26, 2009

• Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard, 'The Conversations: Star Trek', The House Next Door Online, May 1, 2009
  
• Daniel Bernardi, 'Star Trek in the 1960s. Liberal-Humanism and the Production of Race', Science Fiction Studies #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
  
• Daniel Bernardi, Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998 -Limited Preview via Google Books)
• Francesca Coppa, 'Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding', Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol 1 (2008)
• Anne Cranny-Francis, 'Different Identities, Different Voices: Possibilities and Pleasures in Some of Jean Lorrah's Star Trek Novels', Science Fiction Studies, #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Marie A Dean , Star Trek and Sacred Ground (review)', Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 1, Spring 2002
• Scott K. Duchesn, 'Play vs. Presence in Star Trek ', Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2007
• H. Bruce Franklin, 'Star Trek in the Vietnam Era', Science Fiction Studies #62 = Volume 21, Part 1 = March 1994
• Valerie Fulton, 'An Other Frontier: Voyaging West with Mark Twain and Star Trek's Imperial Subject', Postmodern Culture, Volume 4, Number 3 (May, 1994)
• Lincoln Geraghty, 'Telling Tales of the Future: Science Fiction and Star Trek's Exemplary Narratives', Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 3.2, Spring 2003
• Lincoln Geraghty, '‘Help When Times Are Hard’: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters', Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 5, 2004
• Lincoln Geraghty, Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (London: IB Tauris, 2007 - Limited preview via Google Books)
• Lincoln Geraghty and Rebecca Janicker, '"Now That's What I Call a Close Encounter!": The Role of the Alien in Science Fiction Film, 1977 - 2001', Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies, November 2004
• Jonathan Gray, 'Mommy, Is That a Boy Text or a Girl Text?', Flow TV, May 18, 2007
• Lee E. Heller, 'The Persistence of Difference: Postfeminism, Popular Discourse, and Heterosexuality in Star Trek ', Science Fiction Studies #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Veronica Hollinger, 'Contemporary Trends in Science Fiction Criticism, 1980-1999', Science Fiction Studies, #78 = Volume 26, Part 2 = July 1999
• David Hudson, 'Star Trek' links, The Daily @ IFC.com, May 7, 2009
  
• Henry Jenkins, 'Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching', (first published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, June 1988)
• Henry Jenkins, 'Of Trek and TiVo', Technology Review, January 2002
• Henry Jenkins, 'Five Ways to Start a Conversation About the New Star Trek Film, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, May 12, 2009
  
• Michael Jindra, 'Star Trek fandom as a religious phenomenon', Sociology of Religion, Spring 1994
• Daniel Kälberer, 'Reference Literature to Star Trek', Film Bibliography, 2008
• Tama Leaver, '"Your appeal to my humanity is pointless": The Borg and Radical Performativity in Star Trek', Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 9 , May/August 2002,
• John Kenneth Muir, 'Star Trek: the motion picture (1979)', JKF's Reflections, April 29, 2009
• Janet Murray and Henry Jenkins, 'Before the Holodeck: Transferring Star Trek into Digital Media' (first published in Greg Smith (ed.), On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (New York: New York University Press, 1998)
• Arika Okrent, 'There's No Klingon Word for Hello', Slate, May 7, 2009
  
• Juli J. Parrish, Inventing a Universe: reading and Writing Internet Fan Fiction (e-thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2007)
• Hannah Pok, "To boldly go where no man has gone before": Star Trek as a reflection of American imperialism', Hannah's Deep Field Space: Science Fiction Essays, 1999
• Hannah Pok, 'Negotiating Outcast States: Liminal Identities and Difference in Star Trek', Hannah's Deep Field Space: Science Fiction Essays, 1999
• Sean Redmond, 'The Science Fiction of Whiteness', Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, October 2006
• Steve Roby, The Complete Starfleet Library: Analysis and Criticism, November 2008
• Bernd Schneider, 'Star Trek Clichés', Ex Astris Scientia
  
• Science Fiction Studies Special Issue on Star Trek, #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Jason Sperb, 'On Trek', Jamais Vu, May 4 2009
• Justine Walden, 'The Political Aesthetic: Nation and Narrativity on the "Starship Enterprise', Cinemaspace, UC Berkeley, 1994
  
• Wikiquote on Star Trek
  
• J. Emmett Winn, 'Highly Offensive Ferengi: Racial Issues and Star Trek's Multicultural Deep Space Nine in Film', Kinema, Spring 2003
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'Vulcan: The Soul of Spock - A Video Essay', The L Magazine, May 6, 2009

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