"Essays address philosophical aspects of the five television series and ten feature films that make up the Star Tre
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English Pages xvii, 287 pages Year 2010;2008
Table of contents :
From Shakespeare to Wittgenstein : "Darmok" and cultural literacy / Paul A. Cantor --
Death and rebirth of a Vulcan mind / Ritoku, as transmitted to Walter Robinson --
"Humans smile with so little provocation" / Harald Thorsrud --
Wrath of Nietzsche / Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin --
Mind your Ps and Qs : power, pleasure, and the Q Continuum / Robert Arp --
"Killing your own clone is still murder" : genetics, ethics, and Khaaaaan! / Jason T. Eberl --
Enterprise of military ethics : Jean-Luc Picard as Starfleet's conscience / Tim Challans --
Is Odo a collaborator? / Sander Lee --
"The rules of acquisition can't help you now" : what can the Ferengi teach us about business ethics? / Jacob M. Held --
Inhuman nature, or what's it like to be a borg? / Kevin S. Decker --
Recognizing the big picture : why we want to live in the Federation / Jason Murphy and Todd Porter --
Why not live in the holodeck? / Philip Tallon and Jerry L. Walls --
Second-coming of Kahless : Worf's "will to believe" / Heather Keith --
Cardassian "monsters" and Bajoran "freedom fighters" / Marnie Nolton --
Time--
the final frontier / Amy Kind --
"Your big chance to get away from it all" : life, death, and immortality / Theodore Schick --
Spock's Vulcan mind meld : a primer for the philosophy of mind / Mahesh Ananth --
Harry Mudd always lies / Jerry Kapus.