Star
Trek (1968)
Star
Trek: Voyager (2000)
Star
Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek / book (2024)
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Star
Trek
Season 2.
Episode 24.
Episode
entitled: The Ultimate Computer.
Released
March 8, 1968.
Directed by
John Meredyth Lucas.
Written by
D.C. Fontana, Laurence N. Wolfe.
Created by
Gene Roddenberry.
Music by
Alexander Courage.
Cast: William
Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George
Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, William Marshall, Sean Morgan, John Duke /
Barry Russo, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Eddie Paskey.
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Star
Trek: Voyager
Season 6.
Episode 19.
Episode
entitled: Child’s Play.
Released
March 8, 2000.
Directed by
Michael/Mike Vejar.
Created by
Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by
Raf Green, Paul Brown, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.
Based
on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by
David Bell.
Cast: Kate
Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips,
Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Manu Intiraymi, Tracey
Ellis, Mark A. Sheppard, Scarlett Pomers, Marley McClean, Kurt Wetherill, Cody
Wetherill, Eric Ritter, Majel Barrett, Michael Bailous, Tarik Ergin, Dieter
Horneman, Nichole McAuley, Pablo Soriano.
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Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek
by Nana
Visitor.
Published by
Insight Editions.
Published
2024.
Hardcover.
ASIN:
B0C7P8NTH2
ISBN-13:
979-8886633016
Description:
Nana
Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has
portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers,
and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and
in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek,
and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.
The
groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 was a paradigm
shift for women and people of color. Pioneering is no picnic, and she planned
to leave the show until none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
contextualized her appearance in people’s living rooms across America as a way
for people of color to know they were indeed an important part of the future.
Since then,
each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time
and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, Open a Channel: A
Woman’s Trek, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led
the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era.
For Visitor,
this is more than a book about Star Trek. It’s also about how
society and the stories we tell have evolved in the last sixty years, and how
the role of women has changed in that time.
STAR AUTHOR:
Written by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor,
famous for playing Major Kira Nerys. This is both her story and her journey
through the stories of other women involved with Star Trek from
the 1960s to the 21st century.
EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEWS: Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred
in Star Trek, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry
Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush.
INSPIRING
STORIES: Explore how Star Trek has influenced women in the
real world, including soldiers, scientists, and even astronauts. For the book,
author Nana Visitor visited ESA HQ and interviewed astronaut Samantha
Cristoforetti while she was in orbit around Earth on the International Space
Station.
PIONEERING
SERIES: Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star
Trek, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths
who grew up with Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, for
example, not only learned to accept a woman as a leader but were also able to
expand what they could imagine for themselves. The book makes clear how
important storytelling is, and how the storytelling of Star Trek has
had a profound effect on its audience.
