Preface: “Engage!” Science Fiction and Science Inspire Each Other and Move Society Forward	7
	“With A Wondrous Leap of the Imagination”: Star Trek as Beacon and Compass	9
	Works Cited	12
	Contents	13
	“Where Many Books Have Gone Before”: Using Star Trek to Teach Literature	17
	“Strange New Worlds”: The Value of Intertextual Understanding	19
	“Ahab has to Hunt his Whale!”: Star Trek as a Tool to Teach Specific Texts	20
	“No more metaphors, Bones. That’s an order”: Learning Literary Concepts and Techniques Through Star Trek	23
	“Something Spock was trying to tell me on my birthday”: Literary Themes in Star Trek	25
	“You’ll find it in all the literature of the period”: Literature as Pleasure	26
	Works Cited	27
	From ‘Shalom Aleichem’ to ‘Live Long and Prosper’: Engaging with Post-war American Jewish Identity via Star Trek: The Original Series	28
	The Uses of Jewish Studies and Star Trek	30
	A Transitional Moment for American Jews	32
	Jewish Bodies, Jewish Characters?	33
	Beyond Embodiment: Jewish Stories in Star Trek	37
	Boldly Going Further: Towards Future Work On Star Trek and Jewish Studies	40
	Works Cited	41
	Recommended Reading	42
	“Wagon Wheels, Sails, and Warp Cores”: Star Trek and American Culture: Between Allegory and Worldbuilding	43
	Introduction – Recognizing the Known Unknown	45
	What If? – The Workings of sf	47
	Allegory – Westerns, Kennedy and the New Frontier of the 1960s	49
	Worldbuilding – Pax Transatlantica, or the Best of Both Worlds	51
	Conclusion – Continuing Voyages	53
	Works Cited	54
	Recommended Reading	55
	How to Name a Starship: Starfleet between Anglo-American Bias and the Ideals of Humanism	56
	Works Cited	63
	The Computer of the Twenty-Third Century: Real-World HCI Based on Star Trek	64
	“It’s interaction, Jim, but not interaction as we know it.”	66
	“The helm is not responding, Captain. Permission to turn it off and on again?”	67
	“I can nae get the power, Captain. She’s configuring her updates!”	67
	“Siri, where are the nuclear vessels?” “I’m sorry, I do not understand: ‘Fear art. See new, clear weasels’.”	68
	“Captain, I cannot raise the incoming craft. It is using an incompatible interface and an out of date codex.”	69
	“Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not a search engine!”	70
	“Sir, the ensigns are refusing to wear red shirts and threatening to dox anyone who sends them on an away mission.”	70
	“Scanning the planet’s surface for Snarks, Captain, but detecting only Boojums.”	71
	An Upgrade from the Technicians of Cygnet-14	72
	Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before, in Order to Make It Accessible to Everyone	73
	References	74
	The Energy System in Star Trek and Its Real-Life Counterparts	75
	The Use, the Need, and the History of Energy	77
	Energy in Star Trek	77
	Energy Production and Consumption Through the Lens of Star Trek	80
	Works Cited	81
	“My People once lived in Caves”: Pre-­modern Societies in Star Trek	83
	Introduction – “[O]n its way to rendezvous with history”	85
	Pre-modern, Modern, Postmodern – Where Do Historians Draw the Line(s)?	86
	Pre-modern Societies in Star Trek – “It was my first visit to a pre-warp culture”	88
	Conclusion – “I don’t know who writes your history books”	91
	Works Cited	92
	“Ready To Beam Up”: Star Trek and its Interactions with Science, Research and Technology	94
	Science, Research and Popular Culture	96
	Star Trek as a Fictional Laboratory	97
	Star Trek and the Public Communication of Science and Technology	97
	Star Trek as Inspiration for Innovation and Technology	98
	Positive Role-Models Provided by Star Trek	99
	Making Friends: Star Trek and NASA	100
	Conclusion	102
	Works Cited	103
	“Teaching with Trek”: Star Trek, the LGBTQ+ Community, and College Composition	105
	Works Cited	114
	“Resistance is Futile”: Using the Borg to Teach Collective Computing Systems	116
	Introducing the Borg	118
	The Borg, Their Traits, and Computer Science	119
	Self-Aware Systems	119
	Collectives	120
	Benefits of the Borg and Collectives	121
	Conclusion	122
	Works Cited	123
	Telepathic Pathology in Star Trek	125
	Introduction	127
	Mass Effects	128
	Single Effects	129
	Conclusions	130
	Works Cited	132
	Playing Captain Kirk: Designing a Video Game Based on Star Trek	133
	Introduction	135
	Why Is That?	135
	What Would It Take to Get There?	136
	Star Trek & Successful Games	136
	Cornerstones of Good Games	138
	Meaningful Choices	138
	Immersion and Identification	138
	Challenging Resource Management	139
	Progression and Achievement	139
	Pros and Cons for a Game Set in the Star Trek Universe	140
	Boldly Going	141
	A Proposal: Seeking Out New Life and New Civilizations	142
	Conclusion	143
	Works Cited	143
	To Seek Out New Forms of Knowledge: Viewing Star Trek as an Introduction to Cognitive Science and Ways of Thinking About Narrative, Theory of Mind, and Difference	144
	Introduction	146
	Theory of Mind and Empathy	147
	Look, a Mirror Mechanism	147
	Star Trek + POP CULTURE = POWER/POLITICS	148
	Star Trek and Empathy	149
	Empathy, Metaphor, and Star Trek	151
	An Emerging Lesson Plan, a Possible Assignment	152
	Works Cited	153
	La Forge’s VISOR and the Pictures in Our Heads: Understanding Media Studies Through Star Trek	155
	Introduction	157
	“A Fly on the Wall”	158
	“What’s normal?”	160
	“Special Insight”	162
	Conclusion	164
	Works Cited	165
	Recommended Reading	166
	“Logic is the beginning of wisdom … not the end”: Using Star Trek to Teach Scientific Thinking	167
	Works Cited	177
	Appendices	179
	Appendix 1	179
	Appendix 2	184
	Appendix 3	185
	Appendix 4	201
	Appendix 5	215
	Appendix 6	231
	Appendix 7	239
	Appendix 8	240