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1994

International Law

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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The Interstellar Relations Of The Federation: International Law And Star Trek: The Next Generation, Michael P. Scharf, Lawrence D. Roberts Jan 1994

The Interstellar Relations Of The Federation: International Law And Star Trek: The Next Generation, Michael P. Scharf, Lawrence D. Roberts

Faculty Publications

A recent University of Toledo Law Review article concerning the legal issues
dealt with in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (STNG)
became an overnight national sensation. Given that, during its seven seasons of
first-run episodes; STNG had been the most popular syndicated series on
American television, it is perhaps not surprising that the article should engender
so much public attention. The article, written by law professors Paul Joseph and Sharon Carton of Nova Southeastern University Law School, was not intended as however. Rather, it was a serious examination of the way STNG United Federation of Planets dealt …