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Mar 12, 2015

David Greven, professor and expert on Star Trek is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.

David is the author of numerous books including Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of Desire in the Television Series and Films.

He is also Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina.

In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, David and Chauncey talk about the Star Trek TV and film universe and how it both represents and struggles with questions of gender, sexuality, and race.

David and Chauncey also discuss Kirk and Spock's "brotherly" love, Trek's problems with representing black masculinity,Voyager as a show where questions about gay and lesbian rights and agency were channeled via the holographic doctor, Data as a sexual being, and many other Star Trek related topics.

Chauncey and David also reminisce about their favorite childhood toy disappointments and the joys of watching early and mid 1980s New York television stations such as Channel 11 and Channel 9.

Chauncey DeVega offers some thoughts about the Oklahoma fraternity racism imbroglio and the Department of Justice's two reports on Ferguson.