User:Karsten Sill

Questions

I rather put them here, before I forget

Formal stuff

how do I address the reader? I, we, one..., personal or impersonal (one), I used impersonal before but personal is much easier
how to quote epsiodes? Time signatures?

Genre theory

there's a lot about literary and film genre theory
I'd rather like to give a short account on genre theory discourse and point the stuff that is actually applicable instead of repeating countless voices from theorists - well, that's a large amount and I don't how to deal with it. I already quoted/summarized some opinions: Aristotle, Plato, Goethe, triads, Genette, Croce

Chapters

not sure if I should give an overview of science fiction film, seems dispensable (???)
the overview draft is much too long: currently I am planning three core chapters: virtual realities, time travel and "sui generis" (the Star Trek series & films)
extra (though this may be too much, irrelevant): parodies, star wars
I have absolutely no estimation of chapter length, genre theory may fill 20 pages max, virtual realities covers 3 episodes (from the presentation) and some more on the side, time travel maybe 3-4, sui generis probably 20 pages as well... I am really in the dark here...

1 Introduction

short introduction and a view on contemporary scifi/Star Trek

thesis

Forschungsüberblick (do I have write one?)

1.1 The origins of Science Fiction

1.2 Star Trek

2 Science Fiction Genre

2.1 Recent Genre Theory

2.2 The SF Genre(s)

2.3 SF Film

3 Virtual Realities

3.1 Early VR

3.2 Holodeck Realities

3.2.1 Stuck On The Holodeck (?)

3.3 Time Travel

4 Star Trek sui generis (?)

4.1 The series'

4.2 The feature films

(5 Star Trek and other SF universes) (Parodies, Star Wars et al.)

6 Conclusion