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Smith On Hanley, 'The Metaphysics Of Star Trek, Anne Collins Smith
Smith On Hanley, 'The Metaphysics Of Star Trek, Anne Collins Smith
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Review by Anne Collins Smith on the H-PCAACA mailing list, June 1998.
The Metaphysics of Star Trek by Richard Hanley. New York: Basic Books, 1997. xviii + 253 pp. $18.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09124-9.
Richard Hanley's The Metaphysics of Star Trek is an engaging examination of certain philosophical issues raised within the Star Trek universe. Its title, however, is overly broad; it would be more correctly titled, The Twentieth-Century Applied Metaphysics of Star Trek. The earliest reference in the bibliography is an article written in 1950; the next earliest, 1960. The vast majority of sources are from the 1980's and …