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Dr. Lincoln Geraghty (born 31 December 1977; age 47) is an academic and reader in Popular Media Cultures at the University of Portsmouth who has written numerous journal articles and chapters relating to Star Trek and its fandom. His 2007 book Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe was adapted from his PhD thesis.
In 2018 he also hosted the "Collecting and Star Trek Fandom" panel at the Destination Europe Star Trek convention in Birmingham.
Selected Star Trek bibliography[]
Books[]
- Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (2007)
- The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (editor) (2008)
Articles and chapters[]
- Reading on the Frontier: A Star Trek Bibliography, in Extrapolation 43.3 (2002)
- Carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives: Reality and Star Trek's Multiple Histories, in European Journal of American Culture 21.3
- The American Jeremiad and Star Trek's Puritan Legacy, in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 14.2 (2003)
- Telling tales of the future: science fiction and Star Trek's exemplary narratives, in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 3.2 (2003)
- Homosocial desire on the Final Frontier: kinship, the American romance, and Deep Space Nine's 'erotic triangles', in The Journal of Popular Culture 36.3 (2004)
- 'Help when times are hard': bereavement and Star Trek fan letters (2004)
- Neutralising the Indian: Native American stereotypes in Star Trek: Voyager, in US Studies Online 4 (2004)
- Creating and comparing myth in twentieth-century science fiction: Star Trek and Star Wars, in Literature/Film Quarterly 33.3 (2005)
- A Network of Support: Coping with Trauma Through Star Trek Fan Letters, in The Journal of Popular Culture 39.6 (2006)
- Realities... blending as one! film texts and intertexts in the Star Trek/X-Men crossover comics, in Extrapolation 48.1 (2007)
- Playing hard to get: game-playing and the search for Humanity in Star Trek and Red Dwarf (with Dr. Rebecca Janicker), in Games and Gaming in Science Fiction (2007)
- Painted Men and Salt Monsters: The Alien Body in 50s and 60s American Science Fiction Television, in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media (2007)
- Eight Days that changed American Television: Kirk's Opening Narration, in The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (2008)
- A Truly American Enterprise: Star Trek's post-9/11 politics, in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction (2008)
- The Star Trek Franchise, in The Cult TV Book (2010)
- Piaceri Ripetuti: Storia, Narrazione e Formati Multiplinella Televisione di Fantascienza. Star Trek: Enterprise e Battlestar Galactica (Repeated Pleasures: History, Narrative and the Multiple Formats of Science Fiction Television, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica), in Il cult e l’autore nella serialità televisiva (2013)
- A Reason To Live: Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters, in Popular Media Culture: Fans, Audiences and Paratexts (2015)
- "Time Is A Companion... Who Goes With Us On The Journey”: Star Trek, Time Travel and Patterns of Narrative History, in Time on TV: Narrative Time, Time Travel and Time Travellers in Popular TV culture (2016)
- Book Review: Star Trek and American Television, in Critical Studies in Television 11.2 (2016)
External link[]
- Dr. Lincoln Geraghty – University of Portsmouth profile