Enterprise Unlimited: On Mapping and Colonization of Space

The theme of this paper is the relationship to "others" – other civilizations and cultures in the history of Earth, and other species and different forms of life in science fiction. The analysis of Star Trek series and films shows that, despite considerable endeavor to adopt "multiculturalism" as a principle, and despite a conscious effort to respect and celebrate diversity, "colonial narrative" remains in force in the popular science fiction visions of the future. Fear and/or violence are typical reactions that (un)hiddenly repeats the pattern of our thinking of otherness and treatment of different ones whenever it comes to aliens, whether they are foreigners or extraterrestrials.Tema ovog teksta je odnos prema jednoj posebnoj klasi "drugih". Dok su u zemnoj istoriji u pitanju bile druge civilizacije i kulture, u nau!noj fantastici je po pravilu re! o drugim vrstama i druga!ijim oblicima života. Na primeru serija i filmova Zvezdanih staza pokazuje se da, uprkos zna!ajnom naporu da se "multukulturalizam" usvoji kao vlastito na!elo i uprkos svesnom nastojanju da se poštuje i slavi razli!itost, "kolonijalni narativ" ostaje na snazi i u vizijama budu"nosti popularne nau!ne fantastike. Strah i/ili nasilje su tipske reakcije koje manje ili više (ne)skriveno ponavljaju obrazac našeg mišljenja drugosti i postupanja prema druga!ijama kad god je re! o tu#inama, bilo da su oni stranci ili vanzemaljci