Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series
Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series

Summary 
From the back cover
In this unique monograph, Michael Hemmingson looks beyond the original 1960s Star Trek as mere televisual milestone – the only TV series to last just three seasons yet create a franchise worth billions of dollars – and considers the socio-anthropological impact it has had on our culture, language, and science. Star Trek is fiction that moves off the TV screen and into the communal psyche, influencing advances in technology (flip-out cell phones, automatic doors, talking computers), the creation of an artificial language (Klingon taught in universities), and the formation of fan tribes who emulate the cultures within the Star Trek universe.

Hemmingson also examines the socio-economic factors of Star Trek and critiques the Federation's narrow-minded view of utopia. Also included is the first critique in book from of the 2009 Star Trek motion picture. Complete with videography and index.

Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series