Robert L. Lively is a professor of English at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Popular Culture Review, Tormented Space, Wormhole Weapons, and The Worlds of Farscape: Essays on the Groundbreaking Television Series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword (Lincoln Geraghty)

Introduction (Robert L. Lively)

Part I. Ties to The Past: Voyager and Our Literary Heritage

"Far from gay cities and the ways of men": Exploring Wandering

and Homecoming in The Odyssey and Star Trek: Voyager (Kwasu David Tembo )15

"From hell's heart, I stab at thee": Villain Typologies of the Delta Quadrant (Andrew Howe)

"Caught between worlds": Religion and Star Trek: Voyager

Camilo Peralta

Part II. Gendering the 24th Century: Problems, Solutions, Pathways

Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Kathryn Janeway Breaking

the Glass Ceiling or Reinforcing Stereotypes? (Michelle M. Tabit)

Millennial Girlhood and the End of Kes (Peter W.Y. Lee)

"Tuvix" and Feminist Ethics in the Delta Quadrant (Jeffrey Boruszak)

"There's a woman in there if you'd take the time to look!"

Seven of Nine's Problematic Feminism (Sarah Canfield)

Part III. Negotiating Identities in the Delta Quadrant

Disabling Resistance: Voyager and Federation Ideology (Daniel Preston and Craig A. Meyer)

B'Elanna Torres and the Hated Half: Negotiating

­Mixed-Race/Species Identity (Sherry Ginn)

Foreheads, Bad Attitudes and Mothers: Dismantling

the Nuclear Family (Eileen Totter)

Please State the Nature of Your Humanity: The Doctor

and the Quest to Find Personality in Technology (Ian Thomas Malone)

Disturbing Parallel: The Shifting Politics of Racial Inclusion

and Exclusion in Star Trek: Voyager (Christian Jimenez)

Part IV. Broader Perspectives of the Future

The Politics of Nurturing: Gender, Care and Colonialism

in Voyager's Female Friendships (Rosy B. Mack)

Lost in Space Without an Idea of Home: The Triumph

of Neoliberal Depoliticization in Star Trek: Voyager (Alex ­Burston-Chorowicz)

Confessions of an ­Anti-Fan: Voyager, Fandom and Dislike (Murray Leeder)

About the Contributors

Index