Description: 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) About the Contributors Index

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