Burbocentrism
Tom Shippey, 23 May 1996
Beyond Uhura: ‘Star Trek’ and Other Memories
by Nichelle Nichols.
Boxtree, 320 pp., £9.99, December 1995,0 7522 0787 3 Show More
by Nichelle Nichols.
Boxtree, 320 pp., £9.99, December 1995,
Science Fiction Audiences: Watching ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek’
by Henry Jenkins and John Tulloch.
Routledge, 294 pp., £40, April 1995,0 415 06140 7 Show More
by Henry Jenkins and John Tulloch.
Routledge, 294 pp., £40, April 1995,
‘Star Trek’: Deep Space Nine
by Mark Altman, Rob Davis and Tony Pallot.
Boxtree, 64 pp., £8.99, May 1995,0 7522 0898 5 Show More
by Mark Altman, Rob Davis and Tony Pallot.
Boxtree, 64 pp., £8.99, May 1995,
“... cashing in on their fictional characters’ popularity – Nichelle Nichols’s Beyond Uhura and Leonard Nimoy’s I Am Spock – but they are not very convincing. Nichols claims that her character is a testimony to the series’ ‘multiculturalism’ and that multiculturalism is what made the series a hit. There is a sort of a point here, but it does ... ”
