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  • Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Phlox in Star Trek: Enterprise.
    Early human development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Victor Grech
    Abstract:

    Abstract Since Dr. McCoy in The Original Series, Star Trek has had a doctor in every subsequent series. Star Trek: Enterprise ran between 2001 and 2005. In this series, the alien humanoid Doctor Phlox was the chief medical officer of the Starship Enterprise NX-01. Phlox is truly alien, both biologically and in his cultural norms. However he is tolerant of human mores and customs and indeed, embraces them. His very alienness occasionally saves the crew from attacks which exploit human vulnerabilities. It is also this alienness, with very little sleep requirements, that permits him to be almost always available to his patients. Furthermore, Phlox frequently used an array of exotic alien flora and fauna in his medical treatments, but he does not eschew modern medicine, professionally utilising the typical gamut of futuristic instruments and devices to which Star Trek audiences are accustomed. He is thus the “the prototype of the multicultural homeopathic physician of the future, comfortable with technology but knowledgeable regarding the more natural means of healing”. It is these two traits which endear him to modern viewers, availability and naturalistic treatments. He is a truly unique doctor who furthers the vision of Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, of a multicultural bridge crew, since the inception of The Original Series in 1966.

  • Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
    Early human development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Victor Grech
    Abstract:

    Abstract Doctors are crucial crewmembers in Star Trek. This paper will discuss the medic who is arguably the most well-known of all of the gesamtkunstwerk's doctors, Leonard Horatio McCoy in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966–69). The core trio of Captain Kirk, the alien Science Officer Spock and Dr. McCoy comprise a command troika modelled on classical mythology. McCoy's humanity was used to deliberately balance science officer Spock's cold and inhuman logic. It was thus that McCoy, despite his occasional curmudgeonly crankiness became the human conscience of the ship and its de facto (if not de jure) ethics officer, a role that would be reprised by all of the successive doctors in Star Trek.

  • Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Helen Pulasky in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
    Early human development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Victor Grech
    Abstract:

    Abstract Dr. Helen Pulaski served as Chief Medical Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise in the 24th century (in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation). She was depicted as a grumpy and curmudgeonly character in the mould of Dr. “Bones” McCoy in the original series from the 1960s. Like all other Star Trek Doctors, her skills are legion and she is an excellent medic with a highly evolved sense of ethics.

  • Doctors in Star Trek: Drs. Boyce and Piper, the early years.
    Early human development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Victor Grech
    Abstract:

    Abstract Doctors are frequently depicted as important protagonists in science fiction, including in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. This paper will profile Drs. Philip Boyce and Mark Piper from the first two Star Trek pilot episodes. These doctors are interdisciplinarians with a variety of skills that permit them to cope with exotic maladies and biological afflictions of all kinds. However, they are also humanists who befriend their captains and act as psychological counselors whenever needed. Despite their brief appearances in only one episode each, this trope is later carried over to all of their other medical successors in the Star Trek timeline, as will be shown in the rest of the papers in this collection.

  • Doctors in Star Trek: Hugh Culber in Star Trek: Discovery.
    Early human development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Victor Grech
    Abstract:

    Abstract Homophobia, prejudice against homosexuals, and heteronormativity the belief that heterosexuality is normative, have both decreased over the decades. Until recently, both were common in Star Trek. This is surprising since while ostensibly writing about the future, cultural norms from the 20th and 21st centuries were still imposed on these narratives. Star Trek: Discovery is the most recent series in the francise (commenced in 2017) and is set circa a decade before Captain Kirk's five year mission in the Star Trek timeline. This is the first series to deliberately include homosexual couples within the Star Trek universe for the first time in its decades of existence. Discovery depicts the ship's chief engineer and ship's physician as a happily married male couple who are acknowledged and accepted in their marriage, with their own living quarters. This a simple and highly effective way to include queer people. Once again, the doctor has taken the series into an avenue where no other Star Trek series has gone before.

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  • Globalism in Star Trek
    Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism, 2018
    Co-Authors: George A. Gonzalez
    Abstract:

    Star Trek indicates three distinct politics resulting from the creation of a global society: (1) Federation; (2) Empire; and (3) Neoliberalism. The federation path to world government is predicated on the concept of justice known in the academic literature on Star Trek as “liberal humanism”—a classless society, free of gender/ethnic bias. The justice (i.e. liberal humanism) evident in federation inspires others to become part of the global polity. The Empire strategy of establishing global governance relies on national, religious (for Star Trek “species”) identity. Within Empire, a particular identity group seeks to politically impose themselves on other (species) societies. They do so through military (violent) means and deception—claiming racial/political superiority in the process. The proponents of neoliberalism argue for a global regime based on practical considerations—expanding trade relations and bolstering international security. Star Trek indicates that a political basis of neoliberalism is the WE/THEY distinction—a la Carl Schmitt. Utilizing these templates, as set out in Star Trek, it can be concluded that the American-led global hegemonic system contains characteristics from all three templates. Star Trek suggests, however, that only the federation route to global government is viable.

  • Analytic Philosophy and Star Trek
    The Absolute and Star Trek, 2016
    Co-Authors: George A. Gonzalez
    Abstract:

    Hegel’s absolute is embedded in the Star Trek text. This is clearly evident in the episode “Transfiguration”—with a character achieving knowledge of the whole. “Sacred Ground” explicitly points to “spirits”—in the Hegelian sense—and the idea that the real extends beyond the material, so-called rational, realm. More than just postulating the existence of the absolute, Star Trek ostensibly makes the argument that through honesty, selflessness, and a commitment to scientific, intellectual discovery people can know the absolute and bring forth its promise.

  • Zombies, Star Trek, and International Relations
    The Absolute and Star Trek, 2016
    Co-Authors: George A. Gonzalez
    Abstract:

    The prime optimism of Star Trek, and by implication of humans, is that all able-minded people are capable of speculating about the absolute and the desire to know the absolute is common to the vast majority of us. It is this shared desire that, according to Star Trek, can be basis for human political, social unity. Therefore, the Borg and zombies are a profound threat to this project of unity and they represent the frightening end of the historic quest to gain absolute knowledge.

  • The Progressive Dialectic of Star Trek
    The Absolute and Star Trek, 2016
    Co-Authors: George A. Gonzalez
    Abstract:

    The progressive dialectic was initially identified by Karl Marx and later acted upon by Leon Trotsky. The progressive dialectic is artistically represented in the United Federation of Planets—the fictional interstellar political entity in Star Trek that humans lead. The failure to speculate about the absolute and pursue the progressive dialectic is to precipitate disaster for humanity. Star Trek, in artistically conveying the progressive dialectic, makes the specific argument that if humanity/civilization is to survive/thrive, then capitalist values have to be abandoned and neoliberalism has to be replaced.

  • Star Trek and False Infinities
    The Absolute and Star Trek, 2016
    Co-Authors: George A. Gonzalez
    Abstract:

    Star Trek, through fictional narrative, conveys what is the prime philosophical debate of the modern era. On the one hand, there is Karl Marx and his prominent revolutionary acolyte, Leon Trotsky (with Star Trek’s creators making direct reference to both Marx and Trotsky—as noted in Chapter 4). On the other hand, there is Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and Leo Strauss. To invoke Star Wars, these latter thinkers represent the “Dark Side” of the “Force.” Or in Hegelian terms, they represent false infinities. Put differently, Star Trek warns that to pursue the philosophical ideation set out by Nietzsche et al. is to engage racism, xenophobia, and ultimately the end of human civilization.

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