The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy

Voyaging Defiantly through the Philosophical GalaxyALPHA QUADRANT: Home Systems1. "The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for the Simplicity of Play"Jason T. Eberl2. Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of GreatnessJerold J. Abrams3. The Moral Psychology of a Starship CaptainTim Challans4. "Make It So": Kant, Confucius, and the Prime DirectiveAlejandro Bárcenas and Steve Bein5. Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk is a JerkDavid Kyle Johnson6. "We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of PeaceDavid BoersemaBETA QUADRANT: Dangerous Rivalries7. Klingons: A Cultural PasticheVictor Grech8. The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian TranshumanistsDan Dinello9. Assimilation and AutonomyBarbara Stock10. Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest--on a Quest for Justice?Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman11. Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to FreedomJeff Ewing12. "The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few": Utilitarianism and Star TrekGreg Littmann13. Casuistry in the Final FrontierCourtland LewisDELTA QUADRANT: Questing for Home14. "Today Is a Good Day to Die!" Transporters and Human ExtinctionWilliam Jaworski15. Two Kirks, Two RikersTrip McCrossin16. Data, Kant, and Personhood; or, Why Data Is Not a ToasterNina Rosenstand17. Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the EnterpriseDennis M. Weiss18. Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager's Doctor and Seven of NineNicole R. Pramik19. Vision Quest into Indigenous SpaceWalter RobinsonGAMMA QUADRANT: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations20. Re-Thinking the Matter: Organians Are Still OrganismsMelanie Johnson-Moxley21. "In Search of..." Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and VulcansJames M. Okapal22. Resistance is Negligible: In Praise of CyborgsLisa Cassidy23. "Who I Really Am": Odo, Mead, and the SelfPamela JG Boyer24. Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and Moral RelativismWilliam A. Lindenmuth25. Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own TechnologyDena HurstBEYOND THE GALACTIC BARRIER: The Future as the Final Frontier26. Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of RealityDara Fogel27. Which Spock is the Real One? Alternate Universes and IdentityAndrew Zimmerman Jones28. "Strangely Compelling": Romanticism in "The City on the Edge of Forever"Sarah O'Hare29. It is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean FigureCharles Taliaferro and Bailey Wheelock30. A God Needs Compassion, But Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist TheologyJames F. McGrath31. "The Human Adventure is Just Beginning": Star Trek's Secular SocietyKevin S. Decker