link goes to a Library Genesis mirror where you can currently download the PDF; it’s also on annas archive here.

see also two other lemmy posts about this book:

Book Review - Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

New book: “Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier”

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Not Liking Star Trek v

Una McCormack

Introduction vii

Amy H. Sturgis and Emily Strand

Part 1: Exploring the Series and Films 1

Chapter 1 “A Conservative World”: Greece, Rome, and Stagnation in Star Trek: The Original Series 3

Daniel Unruh

Chapter 2 The Truth Is Out There (Specifically, the Delta Quadrant): Star Trek: Voyager as 1990s Conspiracy Culture 25

Edward Guimont

Chapter 3 Beyond the Wilds and the Waves: Reevaluating Archer, the Armory, and Enterprise 49

Amy H. Sturgis

Chapter 4 “Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young”: The Nostalgic Drives and Generational Anxieties of Star Trek (2009) and Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) 69

Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco

Part 2: Exploring the Ideas 87

Chapter 5 Darmok and Jalad on the Internet: The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Languages and Natural Language Processing 89

Kristina Šekrst

Chapter 6 Two Faces of the Same Coin: Star Trek’s Federation and the Terran Empire 109

Javier Francisco

Chapter 7 “He Was a Son to Me”: Understanding Seven of Nine as a Queer, Posthuman Parent 129

Erin Bell

Chapter 8 The Future Burning Brightly: The Dual Impact of Energy in Star Trek’s Post-Scarcity Universe 149

Martine Gjermundsen Ræstad

Part 3: Exploring the Multimedia Storytelling 169

Chapter 9 “Dif-Tor heh Smusma,” “Jolan tru,” “NuqNeh”: Exploring the Glossopoesis of the Star Trek Universe 171

Andrew Higgins

Chapter 10 Expanding Universes: Star Trek and Rise of Multimedia Narratives 193

John Jackson Miller

Contributors 211

Index 215