Category: Star Trek
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Interviews about Star Trek on Swiss TV and Irish Radio
For the occasion of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary celebration, I publish here my interview on Swiss TV and the transcript of my interview on Irish radio.
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Alan N. Shapiro racconta “Star Trek” und “The Prisoner” (RAI4 Italian TV interviews)
Interviews on Italian TV (RAI4) about The Prisoner and Star Trek.
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Reviews of Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance
Here are excerpts from three reviews of my book “Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance,” beginning with the long review-essay in Science Fiction Studies, and some other quotations and videos about the book.
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Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, by Alan N. Shapiro
Does Star Trek’s worldview coincide with the unbridled high-tech enthusiasm of recent years? Or is there a tension between the show’s originality and the Borg-like assimilation of its creativity by the Star Trek industry? Focusing on the stories themselves, the author reveals the basic principles behind Star Trek that contest the ideology of mainstream technoscience.
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Year of Hell (Star Trek: Voyager)
Janeway and Voyager lock in a course correction to avoid a rogue comet, and accidentally enter a region of space rich in Class-M planets that is in dispute between the Zahl and the Krenim. Data from the newly upgraded Astrometrics Lab indicate that the Zahl are preeminent in this Delta Quadrant sector designated as Spatial Grid 005.
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The Physics of Wormholes
According to Lawrence M. Krauss in The Physics of Star Trek, “a surprising amount of modern theo- retical physics research,” clustered in the area of astrophysical wormhole studies, is directed towards establishing the scientific and mathematical prerequisites for timetravel. “Wormhole time machines are easy to design,” explains Krauss.