THE ULTIMATE STAR TREK AND PHILOSOPHY; Contents; Acknowledgments: The Command Staff of Utopia Planitia; Introduction: A Guide to Living Long and Prospering; Part I Alpha Quadrant: Home Systems ; 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; 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; 3 The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain
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"I Dont 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; 4 "Make It So": Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive; The Search for Spocks Conscience; Into Vagueness; The Final Moral Frontier; Notes; 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-Its Stagnation"; Whats So Important about Self-Actualization?; But Are They Free?; Kirk Is a Jerk; Notes
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"I Dont Care What You Look Like, You Are No Klingon!""The Federation Is No More Than a Homo sapiens-Only Club"; Notes; 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; 9 Assimilation and Autonomy; Autonomy Analyzed; "Voyager Is My Collective"; Evangelical Autonomy; Notes; 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
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11 Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to FreedomCapitalism Is Most Illogical; Dammit, Marx, Im a communist, not a Communist!; Set Phasers to "Revolution"; To Boldly Conclude...; Notes; 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; 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?
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6 "We Are Not Going to Kill Today": Star Trek and the Philosophy of PeaceJustice, 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 Treks Message of Peace; Notes; Part II Beta Quadrant: Dangerous Rivalries; 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"
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Ultimate Star Trek and philosophy
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