A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not...
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Author: David K. Seitz
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A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine by Seitz, David K.

A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

€232,50

A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

€232,50
Author: David K. Seitz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek's tradition of critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star Trek's previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and interpersonal conflict. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary U.S. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy.

Thirty years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction. Drawing on cultural geography, Black studies, and feminist and queer studies, A Different "Trek" is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9's allegorical world-building. If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.S. politics, which deepened the foundations of many of our current crises, have been vindicated politically, to a degree most scholars and even many fans have yet to fully appreciate.


David K. Seitz is an assistant professor of cultural geography at Harvey Mudd College. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church. For more information about the author, visit davidkseitz.com.



Author: David K. Seitz
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 07/01/2023
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781496227997

About the Author
David K. Seitz is an assistant professor of cultural geography at Harvey Mudd College. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church. For more information about the author, visit davidkseitz.com.

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