Table of Contents

Voyaging Defiantly through the Philosophical Galaxy ALPHA QUADRANT: Home Systems 1. The More Complex the Mind, the Greater the Need for the Simplicity of Play Jason T. Eberl 2. Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness Jerold J. Abrams 3. The Moral Psychology of a Starship Captain Tim Challans 4. Make It So : Kant, Confucius, and the Prime Directive Alejandro Barcenas and Steve Bein 5. Destroying Utopias: Why Kirk is a Jerk David Kyle Johnson 6. We Are Not Going to Kill Today : Star Trek and the Philosophy of Peace David Boersema BETA QUADRANT: Dangerous Rivalries 7. Klingons: A Cultural Pastiche Victor Grech 8. The Borg as Contagious Collectivist Techno-Totalitarian Transhumanists Dan Dinello 9. Assimilation and Autonomy Barbara Stock 10. Q: A Rude, Interfering, Inconsiderate, Sadistic Pest on a Quest for Justice? Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman 11. Federation Trekonomics: Marx, the Federation, and the Shift from Necessity to Freedom Jeff Ewing 12. The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few : Utilitarianism and Star Trek Greg Littmann 13. Casuistry in the Final Frontier Courtland Lewis DELTA QUADRANT: Questing for Home 14. Today Is a Good Day to Die! Transporters and Human Extinction William Jaworski 15. Two Kirks, Two Rikers Trip McCrossin 16. Data, Kant, and Personhood; or, Why Data Is Not a Toaster Nina Rosenstand 17. Humans, Androids, Cyborgs, and Virtual Beings: All Aboard the Enterprise Dennis M. Weiss 18. Photons (and Drones) Be Free: Phenomenology and the Life-Worlds of Voyager s Doctor and Seven of Nine Nicole R. Pramik 19. Vision Quest into Indigenous Space Walter Robinson GAMMA QUADRANT: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations 20. Re-Thinking the Matter: Organians Are Still Organisms Melanie Johnson-Moxley 21. In Search of Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans James M. Okapal 22. Resistance is Negligible: In Praise of Cyborgs Lisa Cassidy 23. Who I Really Am : Odo, Mead, and the Self Pamela JG Boyer 24. Is Liberation Ever a Bad Thing? Enterprise s Cogenitor and Moral Relativism William A. Lindenmuth 25. Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own Technology Dena Hurst BEYOND THE GALACTIC BARRIER: The Future as the Final Frontier 26. Life on a Holodeck: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About the True Nature of Reality Dara Fogel 27. Which Spock is the Real One? Alternate Universes and Identity Andrew Zimmerman Jones 28. Strangely Compelling : Romanticism in The City on the Edge of Forever Sarah O Hare 29. It is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean Figure Charles Taliaferro and Bailey Wheelock 30. A God Needs Compassion, But Not a Starship: Star Trek s Humanist Theology James F. McGrath 31. The Human Adventure is Just Beginning : Star Trek s Secular Society Kevin S. Decker

About the Author

Kevin S. Decker is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Washington University, where he teaches ethics, American and Continental philosophy, and philosophy of popular culture. He is co-editor of Philosophy and Breaking Bad (2016) and Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who (2013). He is co-editor, with Jason T. Eberl, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).

Jason T. Eberlis the Semler Endowed Chair for Medical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he teaches bioethics, ethics, and medieval philosophy. He has edited or contributed to books on Battlestar Galactica, Sons of Anarchy, Metallica, Terminator, The Hunger Games, The Big Lebowski, Stanley Kubrick, J.J. Abrams, and Avatar. His most recent books are The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (2015) and The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan (2016). He is co-editor, with Kevin S. Decker, of The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), Star Trek and Philosophy (2008), and Star Wars and Philosophy (2005).