Peter W. Lee has written many articles on film and comic books. He lives in Simi Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pushing the Boundaries of the Final Frontier

Part I-Building a Galaxy: Structural Foundations

in Interstellar Government

Engage! Captain Picard, Federationism and U.S. Foreign Policy

in the Emerging Post-Cold War World (Alex ­Burston-Chorowicz)

An Impossible Standard: Dangerous Knowledge, Moral Progress

and the Prime Directive (Larry A. Grant)

Policing Loyalty: Comparing the Tal Shiar and the FBI's COINTELPRO (Anh T. Tran)

"You will be assimilated": Multicultural Utopianism in the 24th Century (Mehdi Achouche)

Material Agency: The Limits of Technostructure in the 24th Century (Justin Ream and Alexander Lee)

Part II-Gender and Identity Constructions

Perfect Society and Flawless Human Beings: The Biopolitics of Genetic

Enhancement, Cloning and Disability in the 24th Century (Simon Ledder, Jens Kolata and Oonagh Hayes)

The Borg: The Antithesis of Lieutenant Commander Data (Olaf Meuther)

"It's Kirk vs. Picard!": Changing Notions of Heroism from the 1960s

to the 1990s (Katharina Thalmann)

The Queerness of Villainy in the 24th Century (Bruce E. Drushel)

Going Where No Woman Had Gone Before: Women's Roles

on the Enterprise-D as Reflective of Women's Changing Roles

in the American Labor Force (Erin C. Callahan)

I Sensed It: Deanna Troi's Cognitively Restructured Trek and the Futurism of The Next Generation (Joul Smith)

Out of Order: Tasha Yar's Downfall in the Age of Reagan (Peter W. Lee)

Part III-Cultural Textures in Twenty-Fourth Century Living

Klingon Kung Fu: Martial Arts in Future History (Jared Miracle)

Listening to the 24th Century: Music and Musicians Heard Throughout

the Voyages of the Enterprise-D (and Some of the Enterprise-E) (Tom Zlabinger)

The Future Past: Reflections on the Role of History (Alexander Simmeth)

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Index