Jennifer C. Garlen is an independent scholar in Huntsville, Alabama, where she teaches courses on literature, film, and popular culture for lifetime learning programs. Anissa M. Graham is a senior lecturer in the English department at the University of North Alabama where she teaches courses in writing and literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dispatches from the Feminist Frontier

Jennifer C. Garlen and Anissa M. Graham

I. The Motherland: Matriarchs and Legacies

Female Power and Femininity in Majel Barrett's Star Trek Characters

A.V. Rasmussen

"Are we ready or not?" Names and the Journey of Number

Carey Millsap-Spears

How Nichelle Nichols' Uhura Inspired the African American Female Character in Science Fiction

Sidney Blaylock, Jr.

Amanda Grayson and Interracial Mothering

Anissa M. Graham

II. Voyagers and Discoverers: The Next Generations

Resistance to Progress Is Futile: Feminism, Gender, and Seven of Nine

Holly Eva Allen

Gender, Marriage, and Remaining Klingon in "You Are Cordially Invited"

Zara T. Wilkinson

Michael Burnham and Intersectionality in Star Trek: Discovery

Janine Engelbrecht

Seven of Nine's Return in Picard: Reidentifying and Reclaiming Humanity Through Hybridity

Bryana Fern

Parity and Parody on Lower Decks

Jennifer C. Garlen

III. Women's Worlds: Female Experience and Representation

The ­Bechdel-Wallace Test Meets the Final Frontier

Jarrah Hodge

Lasting Images: Dr. Leah Brahms and the "Illusory Women" of Star Trek

Jacob Adler

Race, Gender, and "Nice Hispanic Girl" Imaginations in Star Trek

Brenda Selena Lara

Dealing with Trauma: The Feminist Progression of Suffering in Star Trek

Judith Clemens-Smucker

IV. New Frontiers: Beyond the Binary Boundary

Only a Link in a Chain: The Queer Lives of Joined Trill

Dylan Reid Miller

The Evolution of ­Non-Binary Characters from The Next Generation to Discovery

Finnian Burnett

Through a Glass Darkly: Queer and Queer Coded Villains in the Mirror Universe

Alison Waddy

Standing Up to Stigma: Destigmatizing the LGBTQ+ Experience in Star Trek: Enterprise

Zachary Kacmarynski and Darsa Donelan

Appendix A: Star Trek Television Series and Films in Chronological Order

Appendix B: Star Trek Episodes and Films Cited by Essay

About the Contributors

Index