Escaping Star Trek: Review by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay

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Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan. "Escaping Star Trek." Review of Alan N. Shapiro's STAR TREK: Technologies of Disappearance. Berlin: Avenue, 2004.[1] Science Fiction Studies #97 = 32.3 (November 2005): 503-11.


Csicsery-Ronay finds Shapiro's book "one of the most original works of sf-theory since Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity (1993)," but delays his review for "this message" on "The Star Trek 'Problem'" from your curmudgeon," i.e., I. C-R, who "never succumbed to the attraction of Star Trek." The curmudgeonly response to Star Trek in its various incarnations is useful in itself, and, when he soon-enough gets to it, Shapiro's work, make for an important essay.

Shapiro stresses "technology's inherent accident,'" a "'technological trope'" IC-R suggests we might (though Shapiro does not) call "the glitch": seen as "



RDE, finishing, 25/26Jun22

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