Contents Acknowledgments A Timeline of Stardates Star Trek Series and Movie Titles Introduction Part One: Characters [Are] Welcome: Backstories Chapter 1: Riding Posse on the Final Frontier Western Culture Lassos Eastern Hearts? Noble Savages in the Neutral Zone The Federation’s Manifest Destiny JFK, JTK, and the Final New Frontier Chapter 2: More Than “Just Uhura” “Changing the Way People See Us” “The Next Einstein Might Have a Black Face” “Be Careful What You Wish For” “Was I Not One of Your Top Students?” Chapter 3: The Compassionate Country Doctor and Cold- Blooded Biomedicine The Country Doctor and Biomedical Science at the Crossroads Dr. Bones McCoy: Marcus Welby in Space Bones and Spock at the Heart of the Matter Chapter 4: Who Is Q? Testing Humanity and the Frankenstein Complex The Shifting Faces of Q It’s a Hell of a Life, Jean-Luc The Coyote Parallel Part Two: Kirk and Spock Take on Earth History Chapter 5: The Final Reflection? “We Need No Urging to Hate Humans” Too Klingon to Be Human Hell Hath No Fury . . . Foreign Engagements “What Hope Is There for the Empire?” Chapter 6: Vietnam, Star Trek, and the Real Future Vietnam Genesis, Cosmic Exodus Wars for Peace? The Enterprise Changes Course! Chapter 7: You’re Doing It Wrong Gangsters in Space The Accidental Time Travelers The Historian’s Folly The Rise of the Nazis Explaining the Holocaust The Rome That Never Fell Back from the Future Doing It Wrong Chapter 8: If This Is the (Final) Frontier, Where Are the Natives? No One Here but Us Noble Savages A Cartoon but Not a Caricature You Can Tell by Their Outfits Boldly Going . . . a Step Backward Does Out of Sight Mean Out of Mind? Who Mourns for Chakotay and His Imaginary Tribe? A Mixed Grade for a Mixed Legacy Chapter 9: Terrorizing Space One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s George Washington “They’re Terrorists, Dammit”: So Let’s Negotiate with Them The Terrorists among Us The Xindi as al-Qaeda Chapter 10: To Boldly Go When No One Has Gone Before (or After) The Directive Time Travel: Possibilities and Paradoxes The Observation Effect, Butterflies, and Further Causality Paradoxes Violating the Temporal Prime Directive versus Preserving the Timeline Conclusions and Continuums Part Three: Future Culture Chapter 11: Shakespeare (and the Rest of the Great Books) in the Original Klingon A Fondness for Antiques “You Do Have Books in the Twenty-fourth Century?” I Wrote It Again Yesterday “Actually, I Never Read It” Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor, Not a Literary Historian! Chapter 12: Information Technology in Star Trek I Can Has Internet? Techies for Trekkies The Android with a Billion Apps (or: Why Don’t I Have Cool Stuff Like That?) Jean-Luc Picard Has Joined Faceborg Chapter 13: History on the Holodeck The Big Goodbye A Fistful of Datas Elementary, My Dear Data A New Life-Form Rides the Orient Express Behaving Badly on the Holodeck Edutainment of the Future Chapter 14: Why Star Trek’s Cartography Is So Stellar, or How the Borg Mapped/Changed Everything Lines, Logs, and a Frenchman Named Picard A History of Star Trek’s Cartography Über-mapping the Unimatrix: The Borg Shift It’s All Over: The Map Chapter 15: Who’s the Devil? Live and Let Live What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us Intervening to Right Past Wrongs The Enterprise’s Evolving Environmental Mission Part Four: Other Races Have Histories Too, You Know Chapter 16: Nothing Unreal Exists “Vulcan Is Not My Idea of Fun”: Life on a Desert Planet Is Biology Destiny?: The Nature of Vulcan Difference “Vulcans. Deep Down, You’re All Just a Bunch of Hypochondriacs”: The Dreaded Vulcan Sex Drive “My Mind to Your Mind . . . My Thoughts to Your Thoughts . . .” The Animalistic Past: Ancient Vulcan and the Rise of Surak The Time of Awakening Relationships with the Galactic Community Reformation The Federation and Beyond Logic Is the Cement of Our Civilization: Vulcan “Humanism” Logic Is the Beginning of Wisdom, Not the End Chapter 17: Alien Babes and Alternate Universes I Am the Goddess of Empathy: The Women of The Next Generation Warrior Women A Commanding Woman To Boldly Go . . . or Not New Civilizations, Old Patterns Chapter 18: Klingons The Savage Race of Klingons The Medieval Mirror Kahless the Unforgettable and Karolus Magnus “Even Half Drunk, Klingons Are among the Best Warriors in the Galaxy” Chapter 19: Nazis, Cardassians, and Other Villains in the Final Frontier Nazis in the Star Trek Canon The History of the Cardassian Empire The Nazis of Star Trek Cardassians Aren’t Always Nazis; Sometimes They’re Soviets The Place of Cardassians in Star Trek History Negotiating the Legacy of Star Trek and Its Fans Starfleet Academy Instructors Index: Databanks Wiley Pop Culture and History Series Series Editor: Nancy R. Reagin Twilight and History Edited by Nancy R. Reagin Harry Potter and History Edited by Nancy R. Reagin Star Trek and History Edited by Nancy R. Reagin Copyright © 2013 by John Wiley & Sons. All rights reserved Cover Design: Wendy Mount Cover Photograph: © Stocktrek images/Getty Images