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Star Trek and the British age of sail : the maritime influence throughout the series and films
- Title
- Star Trek and the British age of sail : the maritime influence throughout the series and films / Stefan Rabitsch.
- Author
- Rabitsch, Stefan, 1983-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 269 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. These are the voyages -- Logical, or at least plausible -- Space. the final frontier -- Maritime histories -- "Off the starboard bow" : Star Trek's naval corpus -- "All I ask is a tall ship" : sailing the ocean of space -- "Captain's prerogative" : Star Trek's hornblowers in space -- "Take her out" : nautical traditions and re-imagined nautical life in space -- "The benevolent empire of good intentions" : Star Trek's neo-enlightenment -- Conclusion. What you leave behind.
- Call Number
- MFLP (Star Trek) 19-692
- ISBN
- 9781476664637
- 1476664633
- LCCN
- 2018050119
- OCLC
- 1088418265
- Author
- Rabitsch, Stefan, 1983- author.
- Title
- Star Trek and the British age of sail : the maritime influence throughout the series and films / Stefan Rabitsch.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFLP (Star Trek) 19-692