'The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy' boldly goes where no book has gone before in pisuit of a greater philosophical understanding of the galaxy's final frontier. The book explores a vast amount of philsophical terrain, reflecting the expansive intellectual and narrative creativity behind Star Trek, including the ethics of the Prime Directive, Star Trek's phlosophy of peace, casuistry in the final frontier, Vulcans, Androids and the nature of personhood, moral reativism and the Federation's quest for liberation, and the effect of alternate universes on reality and identity, as well as much, much more... !