Zvjezdane staze: naracije straha.

Star Trek is perceived by the public and the critic as a utopian vision of the post-capitalist future. After setting up a future world we should strive to achieve, it is only left for us to imagine what could, and in what manner, jeopardize it. Stories that can be told about the post-capitalist society of plenty, at least the suspenseful and the watched ones, need to be stories about events that jeopardize that society and threaten its survival. Different types of danger bring imbalance and challenges that characters have to face. Furthermore, they give a good reason for continuing with the narration about events within the already presented world. My first argument is that this is the reason why all TV series within the franchise, regardless of the recent transition from episodic to serial format, basically tell stories about tentative threats to a society that we find well-set. Star Trek screenwriters imagine what could pose a threat to a future community by taking different threats to the community in which they live as their narrative raw material, transposing it into the predefined diegetic world and adjusting it to their imaginarium. Watching this science fiction series, we often see oversized objects from our fears. My second argument is that the Star Trek screenwriters emphasize opinion collectivization and automatization leading to technological singularity as processes that people should fear in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]