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A Timeline of Stardates xiii
Alan Kistler
Star Trek Series and Movie Titles: A Universal Translator xxv
Introduction: Time Warps and Future Histories 1
Nancy R. Reagin
PART ONE Characters [Are] Welcome: Backstories
1 Riding Posse on the Final Frontier: James T. Kirk, Hero of the Old West 7
Alice L. George
2 More Than “Just Uhura”: Understanding Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, Civil Rights, and Space History 22
Margaret A. Weitekamp
3 The Compassionate Country Doctor and Cold-Blooded Biomedicine: Bones, Spock, and Medicine beyond the Machine 39
Brenda Gardenour
4 Who Is Q? 57
Alan Kistler
PART TWO Kirk and Spock Take on Earth History
5 The Final Reflection?: A Mirrored Empire?: Klingon History and American History 71
Lori Maguire
6 Vietnam, Star Trek, and the Real Future 87
H. Bruce Franklin
7 You’re Doing It Wrong: Cause and Effect in Star Trek’s Histories 109
Michael Lewis
8 If This Is the (Final) Frontier, Where Are the Natives? 125
Amy H. Sturgis
9 Terrorizing Space: Star Trek, Terrorism, and History 143
John Putman
10 To Boldly Go When No One Has Gone Before (or After): Star Trek’s Timelines 158
Karma Waltonen
PART THREE Future Culture
11 Shakespeare (and the Rest of the Great Books) in the Original Klingon 179
Elizabeth Baird Hardy
12 Information Technology in Star Trek: Android versus Android, iPads versus PADDs, Facebook versus the Borg 194
Brent McDonald
13 History on the Holodeck 212
Marcus Schulzke
14 Why Star Trek’s Cartography Is So Stellar, or How the Borg Mapped/Changed Everything 226
Matthew D. Mingus
15 Who’s the Devil?: Species Extinction and Environmentalist Thought in Star Trek 242
Dolly Jørgensen
PART FOUR Other Races Have Histories Too, You Know
16 Nothing Unreal Exists: The Contradictory Logic of Vulcan History 263
Alex Robles
17 Alien Babes and Alternate Universes: The Women of Star Trek 280
M. G. DuPree
18 Klingons: Going Medieval on You 295
Christian Domenig
19 Nazis, Cardassians, and Other Villains in the Final Frontier 307
Amy Carney
Negotiating the Legacy of Star Trek and Its Fans 323
Rick Worland
Starfleet Academy Instructors 341
Index: Databanks 349
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