College
College of Arts and Sciences
Mentor Information
Susan Mooney
Description
“Resistance Is Futile: Using Star Trek Fanfiction to Reimagine Milton’s Paradise Lost” is a panel that discusses my reimagination of Milton’s epic for Dr. Emily Jones’ Selected British Authors class. There, I drew parallels between characters in P.L. and characters in Star Trek: The Original Series. Using a Gnostic lens, I reframed temptation as a positive and necessary action. I painted Sarek, Spock’s dad, as an imperfect god who stood in the way of Spock’s growth. Spock, acting as a hybrid of Adam and Eve, gets tempted to stray from his father by Leonard “Bones” McCoy. In my published fanfiction, both are written as transgender men. I crafted Bones to be further along in his transition, so he could show Spock that he had eaten from the tree and had “life more perfect” because of it. Similar to Adam and Eve, Spock gives in to "sin," yet dissimilar to them, he is left excited at the prospect of living a life he had only dreamed of.
Resistance is Futile: Using Star Trek Fanfiction to Reimagine MIlton's Paradise Lost
“Resistance Is Futile: Using Star Trek Fanfiction to Reimagine Milton’s Paradise Lost” is a panel that discusses my reimagination of Milton’s epic for Dr. Emily Jones’ Selected British Authors class. There, I drew parallels between characters in P.L. and characters in Star Trek: The Original Series. Using a Gnostic lens, I reframed temptation as a positive and necessary action. I painted Sarek, Spock’s dad, as an imperfect god who stood in the way of Spock’s growth. Spock, acting as a hybrid of Adam and Eve, gets tempted to stray from his father by Leonard “Bones” McCoy. In my published fanfiction, both are written as transgender men. I crafted Bones to be further along in his transition, so he could show Spock that he had eaten from the tree and had “life more perfect” because of it. Similar to Adam and Eve, Spock gives in to "sin," yet dissimilar to them, he is left excited at the prospect of living a life he had only dreamed of.
