Star Trek and History

Star Trek and History by Nancy Reagin

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Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (Darby, PA: DIANE Publishing, 1990).
    3. Janeway was the first female captain to appear in a Star Trek series. The first female captain ever shown in the Star Trek canon appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , in which an unnamed female officer is shown as the captain of the USS Saratoga . In Enterprise (which premiered in 2001), audiences were shown that female commanders had apparently served in Starfleet long before Janeway, since Erika Hernandez was the captain of the Columbia NX-02.
    4. Private communication from David R. Walker to the author, July 1991.
    5. Quoted in Memory Alpha: The Star Trek Wiki, http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Resolutions_%28episode%29 .
    6. David Alexander, “Interview of Gene Roddenberry: Writer, Producer, Philosopher, Humanist,” Humanist , March/April 1991, http://web.archive.org/web/20070621142925/ http://www.philosophysphere.com/humanist.html .
    7. Robin Roberts, Sexual Generations: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gender (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 18–20.

Starfleet Academy Instructors
    Amy Carney has very fond memories of growing up watching The Next Generation and maintains that it is the best series. While she does admit that Kirk, and even Sisko, are much better captains to have at your side in a scuffle, she insists that Picard is the best captain overall. As a historian, she also wonders how the city of St. Petersburg got renamed Leningrad again in the future. When she is not pondering this great mystery, she serves as an assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College, where she teaches modern European history. She also has several forthcoming publications on the Nazi SS.
    Christian Domenig has been a Star Trek fan since he first saw the original series in the 1980s. Because Starfleet Academy had not yet been founded, he studied history and media studies and is now assistant professor at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, where he teaches medieval history and auxiliary sciences of history. His research interests are on noble families and cultural history.
    M. G. DuPree is a freelance writer and classicist who has taught at the Westminster Schools and Pace Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been a devoted linguist ever since she discovered that the more languages you know, the more you can curse without anyone knowing what you are saying; this is a knowledge she applies with some frequency to recalcitrant students. She is fascinated by the alien languages and cultures shown in Star Trek , and she is particularly fond of Lursa and B’Etor Duras, those daring Klingon entrepreneurs.
    H. Bruce Franklin is the author or editor of nineteen books on American history and culture, including Vietnam and Other American Fantasies and War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. His writings and classes opened the door for science fiction to be taken seriously and taught in American colleges and schools. He persuaded the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum to put on the major exhibit “ Star Trek and the Sixties”; that 1992 show, for which he was the advisory curator, turned out to be the most popular exhibit in the museum’s history. He is currently the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark.
    Brenda Gardenour , whose rocket engineer father looked suspiciously like a Vulcan, spent much of her childhood under the sway of Creature Double Feature and Star Trek. Fascinated by science, medicine, and the horrors of embodiment, it only made sense that she would go on to earn a PhD in the history of medieval medicine from Boston University. Since 2008, she has teleported to Saint Louis College of Pharmacy where, as assistant professor of history, she teaches future pharmacists about life, the universe, and everything. She has published widely in the history of the body, medicine, science, and popular

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