The ultimate Star Trek and philosophy : the search for socrates

Content: 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 \"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 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\" \"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 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?