Fighting for the Future

Sabrina Mittermeier is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg. Mareike Spychala is a lecturer and research assistant in American Studies at the University of Bamberg.

• PrefaceSherryl Vint IntroductionSabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘Boldly Going Where No Series Has Gone Before?’ – Discovery’s Role Within The Franchise and Its DiscontentsLooking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery Andrea WhiteacreA Star Trek About Being Star Trek: History, Liberalism and Discovery’s Cold War Roots Torsten KathkeThe Conscience of the King – Or: Is There In Truth No Sex and Violence? John Andreas FuchsThese Are the Voyages?: The Post-Jubilee Trek Legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister Michael G. Robinson‘Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change’ – Modes of Storytelling in Canon and FanonFrom Series to Seriality: Star Trek’s Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era Ina Batzke‘Lorca, I’m Really Gonna Miss Killing You’– The Fictional Space Created by Time Loop NarrativesSarah BöhlauDiscovery and the Form of Victorian Periodicals Will TattersdillTo Boldly Discuss: Socio-Political Discourses in Star Trek: Discovery Fanfiction Kerstin-Anja Münderlein‘Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations?’ – Negotiating Otherness in Star Trek: DiscoveryAfrofuturism, Imperialism, and IntersectionalityInterview on Normalizing Black Women as Heroes Diana MafeThe Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery Whit Frazier PetersonThe American Hello: U.S. Representations of Diplomacy in Star Trek: Discovery Henrik Schillinger & Arne Sönnichsen‘Into A Mirror Darkly’: Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery Judith RauscherInterrogating Gender Star Trek Discovers Women: Gender, Race, Science, and Michael Burnham Amy C. ChambersNot Your Daddy’s Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery Mareike Spychala‘We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Makes Me Remember’ – Gabriel Lorca, Ash Tyler and the Question of Masculinity Sabrina Mittermeier & Jennifer VolkmerQueering Star Trek ‘Never hide who you are’: Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘I never met a female Michael before’: Star Trek: Discovery between Trans Potentiality and Cis Anxiety Si Sophie Pages WhybrewVeins and Muscles of the Universe: Posthumanism and Connectivity in Star Trek: Discovery Lisa Meinecke

'Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery is full of interesting, engaging, well-argued, and well-written chapters, and it should be considered an effective work of scholarship from which the fields of media, English, and American studies should get considerable worth.' Graham Minenor-Matheson, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research