Fighting for the Future Essays on Star Trek: Discovery

Preface
Sherryl Vint
Introduction
Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala

'Boldly Going Where No Series Has Gone Before?' - Discovery's Role Within The Franchise and Its Discontents

Looking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery
Andrea Whiteacre
A Star Trek About Being Star Trek: History, Liberalism and Discovery's Cold War Roots
Torsten Kathke
The Conscience of the King - Or: Is There In Truth No Sex and Violence?
John Andreas Fuchs
These Are the Voyages?: The Post-Jubilee Trek Legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister
Michael G. Robinson

'Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change' - Modes of Storytelling in Canon and Fanon

From Series to Seriality: Star Trek's Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era
Ina Batzke
'Lorca, I'm Really Gonna Miss Killing You' - The Fictional Space Created by Time Loop Narratives
Sarah Bohlau
Discovery and the Form of Victorian Periodicals
Will Tattersdill
To Boldly Discuss: Socio-Political Discourses in Star Trek: Discovery Fanfiction
Kerstin-Anja Munderlein

'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations?' - Negotiating Otherness in Star Trek: Discovery

Afrofuturism, Imperialism, and Intersectionality

Interview on Normalizing Black Women as Heroes
Diana Mafe
The Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery
Whit Frazier Peterson
The American Hello: U.S. Representations of Diplomacy in Star Trek: Discovery
Henrik Schillinger & Arne Sonnichsen
Into A Mirror Darkly: Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery
Judith Rauscher

Interrogating Gender

Star Trek Discovers Women: Gender, Race, Science, and Michael Burnham
Amy C. Chambers
Not Your Daddy's Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery
Mareike Spychala
'We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Makes Me Remember' - Gabriel Lorca, Ash Tyler and the Question of Masculinity
Sabrina Mittermeier & Jennifer Volkmer

Queering Star Trek

'Never hide who you are': Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery
Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala
'I never met a female Michael before': Star Trek: Discovery between Trans Potentiality and Cis Anxiety
Si Sophie Pages Whybrew
Veins and Muscles of the Universe: Posthumanism and Connectivity in Star Trek: Discovery
Lisa Meinecke