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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."
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Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
Who is he kidding? When the series ended in 1969 there were only 80 episodes. The so-called 'derivitive' series' came many years later and are a completely different kind of television. They're kind of the equivalent, frankly, of Star Trek remade the way a Woman's Studies department would redo it in 1989. . . Not necessarily a bad thing in all regards, but definitely not Star Trek.
I guess there was a brand-name there that really begged to be capitalized on. Let's not get carried away with it, though.