A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine Seitz David K.
A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine Seitz David K. A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and…
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A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine Seitz David K.
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation.
DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary U.S. 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. 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.