{"product_id":"9798886633016","title":"Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek","description":"Author: Nana Visitor\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798886633016\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Insight Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNana 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 \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNana Visitor, \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: Deep Space Nine\u003c\/i\u003e’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews—with the stars, writers, producers, and audience members from all walks of life, including a politician and an astronaut—highlight the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nSince then, each \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future of equality. In her first book, \u003ci\u003eOpen a Channel: A Woman’s Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e led the way for women, and how each show was trapped in its own era.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFor Visitor, this is more than a book about \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSTAR AUTHOR:\u003c\/b\u003e Written by \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: Deep Space Nine\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e from the 1960s to the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS:\u003c\/b\u003e Features interviews with more than a dozen women who starred in \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, including Kate Mulgrew, Sonequa Martin-Green, Terry Farrell, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Tawny Newsome, and Jess Bush.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eINSPIRING STORIES:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore how \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInternational Space Station\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePIONEERING SERIES:\u003c\/b\u003e Following the humanistic tenets of creator Gene Roddenberry, \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, throughout the decades, led the way in promoting diversity. Youths who grew up with Captain Janeway on \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: Voyager\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e has had a profound effect on its audience.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46603471847582,"sku":"HPC-9798886633016","price":84.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798886633016.jpg?v=1773377318","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798886633016","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}