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Theme Enrichment Analysis: A Statistical Test for Identifying Significantly Enriched Themes in a List of Stories with an Application to the Star Trek Television Franchise

open access: yesDigital Studies, 2020
In this paper, we describe how the hypergeometric test can be used to determine whether a given theme of interest occurs in a storyset at a frequency more than would be expected by chance.
Mikael Onsjö, Paul Sheridan
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Star Trek and the Metaverse: An Analysis of Foresight for Augmented Reality in Science Fiction

open access: yesThe IAFOR International Conference on Arts and Humanities – Hawaii 2022 Official Conference Proceedings, 2022
An analysis combining viewpoints of futurism, strategic foresight, computer science, learning technology, and film studies to compare and contrast themes found related to Augmented Reality in Star Trek to trends found in the development and ...
Eric Hawkinson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Out There No One Has a Right to Die. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Häyry M.
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Alien Monstrosity: The Practice of Technology and “Race” as Technological Construct in Star Trek: Voyager

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2021
Alongside class, gender and age, race as an elementary category in modern science fiction is particularly apparent in the Star Trek franchise. The television series Star Trek: Voyager (USA 1995–2001) presents race as a cultural construct that depends on ...
Nils Jablonski
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“Absolute Alterity”? The Alien Animal, the Human Alien, and the Limits of Posthumanism in Star Trek

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2018
As humanity defines itself through an animal other, one could likewise claim that the human in sf texts is demarcated by being non-alien. This viewpoint establishes an intimate connection between alien and animal, both representing the other, that which,
Manuela Neuwirth
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The Pygmalion-Galatea myth in relation to simulation scenarios in Star Trek [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Star Trek has existed since 1966, with a total of 738 hours of viewing time. Like most science fiction, the series frequently alludes to religion or myth but censors such references for the modern world-view by sanitising them with scientific or ...
Grech, Victor E.
core   +1 more source

O canon do consumo do universo Star Trek no Brasil

open access: yesConsumer Behavior Review, 2018
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever como se dá o consumo do Universo Star Trek (UST) pelos fãs no Brasil. Seguindo os pressupostos referentes à Teoria da Cultura de Consumo, a pesquisa com natureza qualitativa e fins descritivos, buscou ...
Franciani Fernandes Galvão   +2 more
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Images of the International System and the Cold War in Star Trek, 1966–1991

open access: yesJournal of Cold War Studies, 2021
:As a work of popular culture, Star Trek incorporated U.S. perceptions of the Cold War, the Soviet adversary, the Third World, and the dilemmas of power in the international system.
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Who is (still) afraid of queer: Homosexual and transgender strategies of star trek [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2013
This text gives a critical account of various, often conflicting interpretations of slash fiction - stories based on characters from popular TV show, The Star Trek, written (and read) by fans. What makes slash fiction, a subgenre of fan fiction,
Drezgić Rada, Krstić Predrag
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Star Trek

open access: yesJournal of Religion & Film, 2009
This is a review of Star Trek (2009)
McGowan, Michael W
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