In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Drumhead”, a young crewman aboard the Enterprise becomes the target of persecution. Simon Tarses — said crewman — it transpires, had lied about his heritage on his entrance to Starfleet Academy’s training program for enlisted personnel. Tarses had claimed to have…

“Of course, you love her! She’s your wife, I’m just saying, maybe you like me a bit more, that’s all”. These are the (then believed to be) dying words spoken by Julian Bashir to his friend Miles O’Brien in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Extreme Measures”. The pair…

Narveson (1991) defines terrorism as a political action or sequence of actions which aim to inspire terror in the ‘target’ population through random acts of violence. This is but one definition of such a broad subject; one which, to many can be hard to define. …

Science fiction, at its core, is a genre used to tell real-world stories through allegory and metaphor. Star Trek, as a franchise, has done this prominently since its very inception. In the original series, this occurred with relation to many hot topics of the 1960s, including race relations, birth control…

In the Star Trek episode The Enemy Within, the sixth episode of the series to ever air, Captain James T. Kirk is split into a ‘good’ half and an ‘evil’ half by way of a transporter malfunction. At one point in the episode ‘evil’ Kirk sexually assaults his Yeoman, Janice…