Conflicts in Star Trek - FEDCON Lecture by David Noack
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The lecture entitled “Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in Star Trek from the 1960s to the 1990s – Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Voyager in comparison” looks analytically at the two Star Trek series, examines the background to the origins of both series and examines the reasons for the transformation of Star Trek.

While Gene Roddenberry conceived the Starfleet as a “Coast Guard in Space” in the 1960s, a clear trend towards militarizing stories and franchising can be observed from the 1980s onwards. Movies and series kept getting further and further away from Trek’s main characters acting like “enlightened detectives”. Against the background of increased violence in US society, growing social injustice and an increasing elbow society, it is analysed how a “Hegemony of Violence” prevails in Star Trek: Voyager. A trend that continues to the present day.

Lecturer: David X. Noack
Duration: 90 min  -  The Lecture will be held in: german
David X. Noack (born 1988 in Berlin) is a military scientist (military historian and sociologist) with a focus on Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Central Asia in the 1920s.

For several years he has been giving lectures in Berlin, Brandenburg and Hesse on the topic Star Trek and has also been interviewed by the Russian state radio station Sputnik on the topic of conflicts and politics in Star Trek. In his spare time he blogs on mateschrank.wordpress.com and is currently guest appearing as Star Trek expert in the Berlin film podcast "Second Unit" by Christian Steiner.

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