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Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize
An anonymous reader writes "A PhD thesis based on Star Trek has won an Australian university's top academic prize. Dr Djoymi Baker's 90,000 word dissertation 'Broadcast Space: TV Culture, Myth and Star Trek' was awarded the University of Melbourne's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD. Dr Baker watched over 700 Star Trek episodes — more than 624 hours — to investigate the relationship between ancient mythology and today's popular culture. American academics thought her research was 'superlative' and suitable for teaching."
I'm a doctor, not an editor! Not kill I.
It's an article, CmdrTaco, but not as we know it. Ahead mod factor five.
Finally Star Trek is gaining the academic recognition it so richly deserves. Having Trekology as an official subject for a BS degree should be coming up soon at all major mail order universities. Live long and prospers.
... did she successfully pass the Kobayashi Maru exam?
"A PhD thesis based on Star Trek has won an Australian university's top academic prize."
Now all we need is a PhD thesis based on several years of reading slashdot.
Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of Star Trek and its spin-offs, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.
But for me it would be:
Anonymous Coward watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of pornography and its cum-shots, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.
...sounds like BS to me!
Popular bittorrent sites have noted a huge spike in Star Trek episode downloads over the last 12 months...
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Finally Star Trek is gaining the academic recognition it so richly deserves. Having Trekology as an official subject for a BS degree should be coming up soon at all major mail order universities. Live long and prospers.
Maybe some day those who embrace the Federation's Ideals can be accepted on a jury or even in public office.
stardate 2006.828 i've successfully been elected to the town school board. the squabbling is terrible and nothing ever gets done. i've never felt in need of a phaser so much in my life.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Star Trek "priest": "And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where there would be no tribble at all"
Crowd chants: "All power to the engines!"
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Yeah, because the only reason WE can't redirect the output from the dilithium matrix through the deflector array to close a rift in the space-time continuum and send Q back home is because we didn't build the Superconducting Supercollider.
Star Trek is space opera. Entertaining? Sure. Scientific? Not so much.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
And a cute one too
I'm sure I will go to that special hell for reducing a PhD to a sexist remark. :-)
No, no, no. Not 'shitty'. The term you're looking for is 'Shatty'.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
I'm a doctor, damnit, not a Star Trek addict!
And only Bones could fix the brain-melt she must be suffering after 624 hours of Trek. It must have been like a dagger in the mind.
Crap, I'm a nerd.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
to Truly understand the thesis, you must read it in its original Klingon.
Wonder which ones she couldn't stand to watch?
:)
I'd wager 500 quatloos one of them was Spock's Brain
given your skewed perception of reality in calling the picture of that girl cute, i think you have nothing to worry about with the afterlife thing. whether you go up or down, i don't believe you'll be able to tell the difference.
Well,
We did have one episode where Kirk built a gunpowder cannon to survive the Gorn....
Okay, okay...I'll shut up.
-- Posted from my parent's basement
Tom: What's he doin?
Droz: He's finishing his senior thesis. Pigman is trying to prove the Caine-Hackman theory. No matter what time it is, 24 hours a day, you can find a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman movie playing on TV.
Tom: That's his thesis?
Droz: Yes! That's the beauty of college these days, Tommy! You can major in Game Boy if you know how to bullshit.
- PCU