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 Star Trek Quotes
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 Star Trek collectively refers to an American science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series (which comprise 726 episodes) and ten feature films , in addition to hundreds of novels , computer and video games , fan stories , and other... 
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 Star Trek Summary
598 words, approx. 2 pagesIn the daunting arena of space exploration, there is a tendency to wonder where the path that humankind is taking will lead us. Does the future hold the promise of fantastic new technologies that will be used peacefully for the benefit of humankind? Or... summary from source:
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2,883 words, approx. 10 pages A worldwide science-fiction pop culture triumph, Star Trek has become a veritable empire of movies, television shows, novels, comic books, fanzines, clubs, conventions, board games, video games, and memorabilia. Star Trek began as a television series... summary from source:
 Star Trek Information
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Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek, in addition to ten feature...
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 The Village Voice Star Trek
05/19/2004: 487 words, approx. 2 pages Storm of a century: Ken Jacobs's outsize anthem of discontent STAR TREK To paraphrase the opening of his six-and-a-half-hour magnum opus, Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs has got a lot of explaining to do. Why here? Why now? Why on video?... summary from source:
The Village Voice Star trek
08/20/2003: 776 words, approx. 3 pages ELEMENTS OF STYLE Shopping With Reese and Beyonce Into our hot little hands has arrived People magazine's Fall 2003 Style Watch, and not a moment too soon: After all, before we buy anything, even a toothpick, for the new season, we want... summary from source:
 AP News Asteroid named for `Star Trek' actor
10/3/2007: 369 words, approx. 1 pagesA piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role... summary from source:
AP News Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty fly to space
4/28/2007: 470 words, approx. 2 pagesThe cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New...
Literary Criticism
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 April Selley
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In the following essay, Selley focuses on the relationship between Captain Kirk and Dr. Spock in the television, film, and literary series Star Trek, identifying it in the tradition of mythic male friendship initiated in American literature by Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.
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Critical Essay by David Gerrold
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Star Trek neatly fulfils all of the requirements for a good TV series: a broad-based format allowing a wide variety of stories, an interesting hero, an unusual set of situations and confrontations, and the requirement of decisive and positive action from a protagonist whose job and training is to do just that. Plus, Star Trek has … one added virtue …—it is a genre unto itself. And that makes it unique. (pp. 17-18)
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Critical Essay by Karin Blair
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In Star Trek, Roddenberry made a universe where known must be brought into contact with the unknown, where drama is played out on the borderline between self-definition and self-annihilation. The great enterprise at stake is dramatizing our own encounters with the unknown and hence with the alien within ourselves, as well as the alien beyond. It is an evolutionary process like life. Also, as in life, this process of encountering the unknown involves us with both the familiarity of the past and the foreignne...
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