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Index
Cover
Series
Titlepage
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Alpha Quadrant: Home Systems
Chapter 1: “The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for the Simplicity of Play”
Life Is Not for the Timid
Mrs. Sisko, Can Bennie Come Out and Play?
Our “Continuing Mission”
Notes
Chapter 2: Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness
Kirk and Megalopsychia
Kirk as a Law unto Himself
Exile to Delta Vega
Captain of the Enterprise
Notes
Chapter 3: The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain
“I Don't Believe in No-Win Scenarios”
“I Would Have Told Him Anything”
“I Have a Chance to Change All That”
“No Better Than the Enemy”
“The Tapestry of My Life”
Notes
Chapter 4: “Make It So”: Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive
The Search for Spock's Conscience
Into Vagueness
The Final Moral Frontier
Notes
Chapter 5: Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk Is a Jerk
Kirk Is a Spoiled Spor(e)t
Mission Log Mayhem
Drugs Are Bad, Mmkay?
They're Not Flourishing!
“This Isn't Life—It's Stagnation”
What's So Important about Self-Actualization?
But Are They Free?
Kirk Is a Jerk
Notes
Chapter 6: “We Are Not Going to Kill Today”: Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace
Justice, Peace, and a “Right to the Clouds”
“We All Have Our Darker Side”: Causes of Violence
“Some Had to Die That Others Might Live”: Justifications for Violence
“No Kill I”: Alternatives to Violence
“Peace and Long Life”: Star Trek's Message of Peace
Notes
Part II: Beta Quadrant: Dangerous Rivalries
Chapter 7: Klingons: A Cultural Pastiche
First Appearances: “They're Animals!”
“The Way of the Warrior”
“Our Gods Are Dead. Ancient Klingon Warriors Slew Them Millennia Ago”
“I Don't Care What You Look Like, You Are No Klingon!”
“The Federation Is No More Than a Homo sapiens–Only Club”
Notes
Chapter 8: The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian Transhumanists
Cybernetic Servitude
“Resistance Is Futile, You Must Comply”
“We Wish to Improve Ourselves”
“Freedom Is Irrelevant”
Notes
Chapter 9: Assimilation and Autonomy
Autonomy Analyzed
“Voyager Is My Collective”
Evangelical Autonomy
Notes
Chapter 10: Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest—on a Quest for Justice?
Solitary, Nasty, Brutish, and Q
Liberty, yet Not Q License
eQual by Nature
Qumanity
Notes
Chapter 11: Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to Freedom
Capitalism Is Most Illogical
Dammit, Marx, I'm a communist, not a Communist!
Set Phasers to “Revolution”
To Boldly Conclude …
Notes
Chapter 12: “The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few”: Utilitarianism and Star Trek
“Illogical” Human Emotions
The Limits of Sacrifice
Friendship and Loyalty
Your Orders, Captain?
Notes
Chapter 13: Casuistry in the Final Frontier
Set Phasers to Learn
Boldly Going Where No Genre Can Go
SCIENCE!!! … I Mean, KHAAAN!!!
Is There a Bones in the House?
Star Trek, You Have Been and Shall Always Be My Friend
Live Long and Use Casuistry
Notes
Part III: Delta Quadrant: Questing for Home
Chapter 14: “Today Is a Good Day to Die!” Transporters and Human Extinction
“I Cannae Change the Laws of Physics!”
“Suppose They Went Nowhere?”
“Remember …”
“I'm a Doctor, Not a Soul!”
Would the Real Riker Please Beam Up?
“What's So Damn Troublesome about Not Having Died?”
Notes
Chapter 15: Two Kirks, Two Rikers
(Gregorian) 1694 to (Stardate) 1672
Being “Half a Man,” but Still a Whole “Double”
Two Whole Rikers
Kirks and Rikers and What's in the Bathwater
Notes
Chapter 16: Data, Kant, and Personhood; or, Why Data Is Not a Toaster
“The Measure of a Man”
Pinocchios and Future Datas
Rational Beings as Ends-in-Themselves
Is Data an End in Himself, or Merely a Means to an End?
The Bigger Picture
Notes
Chapter 17: Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All aboard the Enterprise
To Be a Man, or at Least a Mind
“You Need to Learn to Play”
“Spend Some Time with … Family”
“That Is What It Is to Be Human”
Notes
Chapter 18: Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of Nine
“Please State the Nature of the Philosophical Emergency”
“The Fun Will Now Commence”
“Here Begins a New Life”
“Now That I Am an Individual, Those Same Voices Frighten Me”
“I Am One. I Will Adapt”
“Until I Spent a Day in Your Skin, I Never Knew What I Was Missing”
“To All That Makes Us Unique”
Notes
Chapter 19: Vision Quest into Indigenous Space
“Let's Find out What Life-Forms Are Blessed by This Environment”
“A Very Peaceful, Friendly People, Living on A Primitive Level”
“And the Children Shall Lead”
“I Knew the Spirits Have Chosen You to Be a Contrary”
“You Are a Sacred Person Here, Wesley”
“If You Have No Spirits to Guide You, I Fear You Will Lose Your Way”
Notes
Part IV: Gamma Quadrant: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Chapter 20: Rethinking the Matter: Organians Are Still Organisms
Even Space Clouds Need Food … and Love
Collapse the Polarity!
The Continuing Voyage
Notes
Chapter 21: “In Search of …” Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans
“Never Place Friendship above Profit”
“Because the Needs of the One Outweigh the Needs of the Many”
“The Continuing Voyages …”
Notes
Chapter 22: Resistance Is Negligible: In Praise of Cyborgs
A Matrix of Three: Locutus
A Matrix of Three: Hugh
A Matrix of Three: Seven of Nine
A Cyborg Manifesto
Resistance Was Negligible
Notes
Chapter 23: “Who I Really Am”: Odo, Mead, and the Self
“It Doesn't Know How … It's Just a Baby”
Proto-holodeck?
There's No I in Team, but There Is in Win
Is All Growing but a Transition?
Only Change Doesn't Change
Notes
Chapter 24: Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's “Cogenitor” and Moral Relativism
“So Much for the Little Training Cruise”
“Keep an Open Mind, Commander”
“Insufficient Facts Always Invites Danger”
“We're Out Here to Meet New Species, Not Tell Them What to Do!”
Trying out One's New Phaser
“Is Your Entire Species So Ill Mannered?”—“Nope … Just Me”
“You Had No Business Interfering with Those People”
Notes
Chapter 25: Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own Technology
“I Am the Beginning. The End. The One Who Is Many. I Am the Borg.”
“Toward a State of Perfection”
Just Ask Guinan
“Resistance Is Futile”
Notes
Part V: Beyond the Galactic Barrier: The Future as the Final Frontier
Chapter 26: Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about the True Nature of Reality
Of Humans and Holograms
The Holographic Hypothesis
Is Reality an App?
Can't Tell a Soul without a Program
Who's Playing What?
Cogito Ergo Sum?
Notes
Chapter 27: Which Spock Is the Real One? Alternate Universes and Identity
The Search for Which Spock?
Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics
“I Liked Him with the Beard Better”
“I Have Been and Always Shall Be …”
Notes
Chapter 28: “Strangely Compelling”: Romanticism in “The City on the Edge of Forever”
“The Source of All the Time Disturbance”
“Modern Museum Perfection”
“Stone Knives and Bearskins”
“I Am … My Own Ending”
Notes
Chapter 29: It Is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean Figure
To Cultivate One's Individuality
Existential Trials
The Necessity of Q
Notes
Chapter 30: A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology
“Do You Have Any Gods, Captain?”
“Well, Don't Just Stand There. God's a Busy Man!”
“For All Our Knowledge, All Our Advances, We're Just as Mortal as You Are”
Notes
Chapter 31: “The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning”: Star Trek's Secular Society
“I Never Met a God Before”—“And You Haven't Yet”
“You Don't Understand Something So You Become Fearful”
“We Can All Be Counted upon to Live Down to Our Lowest Impulses”
“This Would Be the Second Time Lucifer Was Cast Out”
Notes
Contributors
Index
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