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.