Published 2016
“…“But aren’t the Star Trek reboots all about the ‘pew-pew’ laser explosions?” you may
well ask. Although this is certainly a factor, especially in the reboots - Star Trek (
Abrams, 2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (
Abrams, 2013), and Star Trek Beyond (Lin, 2016) - where Hollywood action plays a significant box-office role, Science Fiction, the genre at the heart of Star Trek, has been defined as “a contemporary mode in which the techniques of extrapolation and speculation are utilized in a narrative form, to construct near-future, far-future, or fantastic worlds in which science, technology, and society intersect” (Thacker, 2001, p.156). …”
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