Star Trek and the British Age of Sail

<p> Clear all moorings one-half impulse power and set course for <I>a mare incognitum</I>... </p><p> A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era <I>Star Trek</I> is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of <I>Star Trek</I> which was after all also pitched as Hornblower in space. <I>Star Trek</I> is modeled on the world of the British Golden Age of Sail as it is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. This book re-historicizes and remaps the origins of the franchise and subsequently the entirety of its fictional world--the <I>Star Trek</I> continuum--on an as yet uncharted transatlantic bearing.</p>