The ultimate Star Trek and philosophy

9781119146001
1119146003

ix, 358 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: A guide to living long and prospering
Alpha Quadrant: home systems. "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play" / Jason T. Eberl ; Aristotle and James T. Kirk: the problem of greatness / Jerold J. Abrams ; The moral psychology of a Starship Captain / Tim Challans ; "Make it so": Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive / Alejandrro Bárcenas and Steve Bein ; Destroying utopias: why Kirk is a jerk / David Kyle Johnson ; "We are not going to kill today": Star Trek and the philosophy of peace / David Boersema ; Beta Quadrant: dangerous rivalries. Klingons: a cultural pastiche / Victor Grech ; The Borg as contagious collectivist techno-totalitarian transhumanists / Dan Dinello ; Assimilation and autonomy / Barbara Stock ; Q: A rude, interfering, inconsiderate, sadistic pest--on a quest for justice? / Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman ; Federation Trekonomics: Mars, the Federation, and the shift from necessity to freedom / Jeff Ewing ; "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few": utilitarianism and Star Trek / Greg Littmann ; Casuistry in the final frontier / Courtland Lewis
Delta Quadrant: questing for home. Today is a good day to die!" transporters and human extinction / William Jaworski ; Two Kirks, two Rikers / Trip McCrossin ; Data, Kant, and personhood: or, why Data is not a toaster / Nina Rosentand ; Humans, androids, cyborgs, and virtual beings: all aboard the Enterprise / Dennis M. Weiss ; Photons (and drones) be free: phenomenology and the life-worlds of Voyager's doctor and Seven of Nine / Nicole R. Pramik ; Vision Quest into indigenous space / Walter Robinson
Gamma Quadrant: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Rethinking the matter: organisms are still organisms / Melanie Johnson Moxley ; "In search of ..." friendship: what we can learn from androids and Vulcans / James M. Okapal ; Resistance is negligible: in praise of cyborgs / Lisa Cassidy ; "Who I really am": Odo, Mead, and the self / Pamela JG Boyer ; Is liberation ever a bad thing? Enterprise's "Cogenitor" and moral relativism / William A. Lindenmuth ; Resistance really is futile: on being assimilated by our own technology / Dena Hurst
Beyond the galactic barrier: the future as the final frontier. Life on a holodeck: what Star Trek can teach us about the true nature of reality / Dara Fogel ; Which Spock is the real one? Alternate universes and identity / Andrew Zimmerman Jones ; "Strangely compelling": Romanticism in "The City on the Edge of Forever" / Sarah O'Hare ; It is a Q of life: Q as Nietzchean figure / Charles Taliaferro and Bailey Wheelock ; A god needs compassion, but not a starship: Star Trek's humanist theology / James F. McGrath ; "The human adventure is just beginning": Star Trek's secular society / Kevin S. Decker

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Decker, Kevin S., editor
Eberl, Jason T., editor