Star Trek's a thesis

[YankeyMCC]

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It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where no thesis has gone before. Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of Star Trek and its spin-offs, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.

She analysed the series armed with an exhaustive knowledge of the characters and storylines of ancient mythology - from Homer's Odyssey down.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/now-for-star-treks-enterprising-thesis/2006/08/27/1156617211732.html

I guess I'm a Star Trek geek but this does sound interesting to me, I think I'd enjoy reading this paper. Sounds like she's developing a book from it so maybe we'll get to read it in that form.

[Reader Rabbit]

1. Actually, I suspect it's not the first.

I wrote my Master's thesis on Star Trek, and the amount of academic writing already out there on Trek was phenomenal. I think I had more than 60 sources in my bibliography.