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‘Those Are the Worst Jobs on the Ship’: and the Radical Queer Utopia

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  8. Girard, Danielle (2019), ‘Spock: A study of the homoromanic/asexual vulcan’, Fantastika: Journal for Imaginative Narrative, 3:1, pp. 31–45, https://www.fantastikajournal.com/volume-3-issue1. Accessed 14 October 2022 .
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  38. ‘The Spy Humongous’ (2021), Bob Suarez (dir.), Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 2 Episode 6 (16 September, USA: CBS Eye Animation Productions, Secret Hideout, Important Science, Roddenberry Entertainment, Titmouse, Inc.).
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     [Google Scholar]
  41. Whybrew, Si Sophie Pages (2022), ‘Queerness II: Transgender and nonbinary representation’, in L. Garcia-Siino , S. Mittermeier and S. Rabitsch (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 403–11.185
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