ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will focus on the more textually based approaches to the analyses of Star Trek and other popular science fiction. In doing so we will relate our arguments to the contrast that Tania Modleski draws between Frankfurt School-style critics who ‘were too far outside the culture they examined’ and the more recent fan-oriented critics, whom she sees as ‘immersed in their culture, half in love with their subject, sometimes…unable to achieve the proper critical distance from it’.
