The television phenomenon called Star Trek has captured audiences for 55 years since the first episode was aired in 1966. In this essay, I study one aspect which has not been explored in detail before: How Star Trek uses literature in the five completed live action-series: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. I explore this through adaptation studies, mainly as described and defined by Linda Hutcheon, and canon theory, as presented by Harold Bloom. In this essay, I answer my questions by watching every episode in the series mentioned above and categorize the ones where literature is present by strong literary reference and weak literary reference. After this, I give examples of how literature can function in different ways in 8 episodes from the series.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-447389 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Elgenstierna, Saga |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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