{"product_id":"late-star-trek","title":"Late Star Trek","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781517919108\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e's twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate Star Trek\u003c\/i\u003e explores the beloved science fiction franchise's repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series \u003ci\u003eEnterprise, \u003c\/i\u003eAdam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e's sprawling continuity-including authorized books, the three \"Kelvin Timeline\" films, and the streaming series \u003ci\u003eDiscovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStrange New Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e-along with fan discourse, to reflect on the perils and promise of the franchise as a unique form of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSignificantly including the licensed novels and comic books that fill out the \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e universe for its fans, Kotsko brings the multiple productions of the early twenty-first century together as a unified whole rather than analyzing them in their current stratified view. He argues that the variety of styles and approaches in this tumultuous era of \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e history provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on the nature of the franchise storyworlds that now dominate popular culture. By taking the spin-offs and tie-ins seriously as creative attempts to tell a new story within an established universe, \u003ci\u003eLate Star Trek\u003c\/i\u003e highlights creative triumphs as well as the tendency for franchise faithfulness to get in the way of creating engaging characters and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing forcefully against the prevailing consensus that franchises are a sign of cultural decay, Kotsko contends that the \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41498953744517,"sku":"PR401792","price":52.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXQFPV3SHS0.jpg?v=1769251174","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/late-star-trek","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}