Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Toward a "Many Texts" Theory of the Star Trek Multiverse (Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington) 1 A Switch in Time: Nero's Disruptive Trickster Force in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (Sarah Beth Kiliman) 13 Khanned: Whitewashing Khan in Star Trek into Darkness (Lynnette Porter) 25 Race, the Final Frontier: Star Trek, Trump and Hollywood's Diversity Problem (Penelope Ingram) 39 Star Trek into Colonialism (Bart Bishop) 58 Uhura and Linguistics of Star Trek (Olga A. Pilkington) 72 All Talk and No Action: What's a Girl Gotta Do to Get Noticed Around Here? (Teresa ­Cutler-Broyles) 84 "Throw a punch and kiss a girl": Gender and Sexualization in the Kelvin Timeline (Andrea Whitacre) 99 Science Fiction and the New Trek Timeline (Ace G. Pilkington) 115 Priming the Multiverse: Contextualizing the Kelvin Timeline Through Gene Roddenberry's Original Narrative (Jessica ­Sellin-Blanc) 135 Illegible and Unacceptable Representation: The Liminality of Spock in Star Trek (2009) (Natashia Lindsey) 151 James T. Kirk, Ideal Citizen: Shifting Rhetoric for a New Timeline (Cait Coker) 166 Conclusion: Is There a Future for Star Trek? (Ace G. Pilkington and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell) 177 About the Contributors 185 Index 187.