A Paramount Narrative: Exploring Space on the Starship Enterprise

Talking Back: Monstrosity, Mundanity, and Cynicism in Television Talk Shows

“…My thinking about the television audience as a formally necessary participant in the phenomenon of a television show, and likewise about the structure of viewing as a constitutive activity rather than a passive stance, has been strongly influenced by my conversations and research with Sarah Hardy. For another discussion of the structural role of the audience in television, in the context of an analysis of a very different type of television show, see Hardy and Kukla (1999). 23.…”

Cyborg Selves in Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genre, Hybridity, Identity

“…This split instilled a new dialogue at the heart of the show, further enhancing its heteroglossia and highlighting the militarism that has been accepted as a convention in US Television SF, a convention inherited from stories of naval exploration and European global colonization (Barrett and Barrett 11–14). Even in the humanist utopia of Star Trek , Starfleet is a much more important governing structure than any legislative body, yet the militarism is subsumed under the scientific and cultural goals of the Enterprise 's mission (Hardy and Kukla 181; Short “Federation” 34). By contrast, the Galactica is explicitly and emphatically military, and its leaders are often in conflict with civilian leaders, who are generally not portrayed as wrong in their disagreement.…”