Week of March 23, 2009
News Item: Many die-hard Star Trek fans go out of their way to collect anything and everything related to the science fiction television and movie series. There are action figures, comic books, trading cards, mugs, t-shirts, and even furniture based on the franchise that began in the 1960s. A recent story in the Home section of the New York Times highlighted the fascination that some Trekkies have for Captain Kirk’s U.S.S. Enterprise chair. These enthusiasts even go so far as to have sophisticated replicas of the chair built for their living rooms. The books below may not cover the architectural and interior design concepts of the Enterprise, but they do provide insight into the Star Trek phenomenon that continues to pervade American popular culture.
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American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond
By: Jan Johnson-Smith. I.B. Tauris, 2005
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek Series
Edited by David Gerrold et al. BenBella Books, 2006
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 B63 2006
Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos
By Jon Wagner and Jan Lundeen. Praeger, 1998
Call Number: Available online through Greenwood e-books
Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek‘s Humanism, Post-9/11
By Diana M. A. Relke. University of Calgary Press, 2006
Call Number: PN1992.8 .S74 R47 2006
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek‘s Dr. McCoy
By Terry Lee Rioux. Pocket Books, 2005
Call Number: PN2287 .K45 R56 2005
The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of Reference and Themes in the Television Series and Films
By James F. Broderick. McFarland & Co., 2006
Call Number: PN1992.8 .S74 B76 2006
Living with Star Trek Culture and the Star Trek Universe
By Lincoln Geraghty. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek, the Next Generation
By Wes Roberts and Bill Ross. Pocket Books, 1995
Call Number: HM141 .R615 1995 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL services)
Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series
By Volker Gentejohann. Peter Lang, 2000
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 G45 2000
The Physics of Star Trek
By Lawrence M. Krauss. HarperPerennial, 1996
Call Number: QB500 .K65 1996 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL services)
Race in Space: The Representation of Ethnicity in Star Trek and Star Trek, the Next Generation
By Michael C. Pounds. Scarecrow Press, 1999
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 P68 1999
Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek
By John Tulloch. Routledge, 1995
Call Number: PN1992.77 .D6273 T85 1995
Sexual Generations: Star Trek, the Next Generation and Gender
By Robin Roberts. U of Illinois Press, 1999
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S732 R63 1999
Star Trek: The Human Frontier
By Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett. Routledge, 2001
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 B37 2001
Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future
By Daniel Bernardi. Rutgers UP, 1998
Call Number: PN1995.9 .S694 B37 1998
Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture
Edited by Jennifer E. Porter and Darcee L. McLaren
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 P68 1999 or available online through NetLibrary
Star Trek, I’m Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact
By William Shatner and Chip Walker. Pocket Books, 2002
Call Number: Q125 .S522 2002
Star Trek Memories
By William Shatner and Chris Kreski
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S73 S5 1993
Star Trek on the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds
By Robert Sekuler. W.H. Freeman, 1998
Call Number: RC341 .S39 1998
To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek‘s Mr. Sulu
By George Takei. Pocket Books, 1994
Call Number: PN2287 .T138 A3 1994