This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three...
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This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three general themes-Origins, Correcting the Past, and Exploring the Future. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 On Disassociative Configurations of Time and Space -- Part I: Examining Origins -- 2 Trekking through Postmodern Time in Star Trek: The Next Generation -- 3 Time Travel as Trope in Television Series -- 4 No Fate, or Is There? -- 5 From Slingshots to Prophetic Orbs -- 6 A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick -- 7 "The Last Best Hope for Peace" -- Part II: Correcting the Past -- 8 The Past Comes Back to Kill You -- 9 "It's All in Books!" -- 10 Creating the Past -- 11 Doctor Who and History -- 12 Historical Approaches to History in The Time Tunnel, Voyagers!, and Quantum Leap -- 13 Altering Human Evolution -- 14 "Time Machines Are Nothin' but Trouble" -- 15 Now Voyagers! -- 16 Star Trek: Voyager and Time Travel -- 17 Many Roads Traveled -- Part III: Exploring the Future -- 18 Twenty-Five Years of Smegging Up the Time-Space Continuum -- 19 The Time Tunnel -- 20 The Impossible Girl and the New World -- 21 Narrative and Paradoxes in Doctor Who "Time-Loop" Stories -- 22 "Did I Mention It Also Travels in Time?" -- Bibliography -- Videography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
