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Tables of Contents for Deep Space and Sacred Time
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
1 Mirror, Mirror: Myth and the Human Condition
1
18
Mythos, Chaos, Cosmos
3
3
Myth in a Modern Age
6
2
The Wellspring of Mythology
8
4
Venerating Myth
12
3
Interrogating Myth
15
2
Plural Vision
17
2
2 Who Mourns for Adonais? Heroes Without Gods
19
24
Twilight of the Gods
21
2
Humanity on Trial: The Pilot Episodes
23
7
Will the Defendant Rise?
30
3
Ecce Homo: Behold the Man
33
3
Gods in the Closet
36
2
Supermen and Flower Children
38
5
3 Galaxy's Child: The Human Estate
43
20
The Measure of a Man
44
1
Alien-ation
45
4
The Machine as Mythic Other
49
1
Lord Computer
50
2
The Frankenstein Syndrome
52
3
Cyborg Motion
55
2
Quest for Humanity
57
6
4 Demons and Doppelgangers: The Inexorable Self
63
18
The Problem of the Self
63
2
Spells and Enchantments
65
3
Spirit Possession, Soul Loss, and Ghost Lovers
68
2
The Doppelganger Effect
70
3
Inside the Plural Self
73
1
He's Not Dead, Jim
74
7
5 Celestial Femininity: Gender in the Star Trek Cosmos
81
16
Wearing the Interplanetary Pants
82
2
Hegemonic Essences
84
3
Succubi and Devouring Women
87
3
From Janice to Janeway
90
5
Tinfoil Bikinis and Political Correctness
95
2
6 The Perfect Mate: Family, Sexuality, and Male Bonding
97
20
Federation Family Values
97
3
Plastic Women
100
3
The Sacred Marriage of Males
103
6
Eros, Philia, and Tales of Pon Farr
109
2
As Time Goes By
111
6
7 This Side of Paradise: Utopian Visions
117
22
Hellish Heavens
120
4
Paradise Misplaced
124
7
Utopia Reconsidered
131
4
Almost Heaven
135
4
8 Up the Long Ladder: Evolution, Progress, and Destiny
139
22
Time and Cosmos
141
2
The Cosmic Escalator
143
5
The Evolutionary Biology of Star Trek
148
6
The Stream of History
154
4
The Changing Fortunes of the Prime Directive
158
3
9 Code of the West: Racial and Cultural Mastery on the Final Frontier
161
22
Tribal Tribulations
161
3
Is Star Trek Racist?
164
6
Nothing in Particular
170
4
Space: The Primal Frontier
174
3
Indians in Space
177
6
10 Decentered Cosmos: Trekking Through Postmodernism
183
20
Dark Visions
185
4
Worlds of Contingency
189
3
Through the Looking Glass
192
1
Chuang Tsu's Butterfly
193
4
Guardians of Forever
197
6
11 Phoenix Rising: Reclaiming Humanism
203
18
Descent into Hell
205
4
Can Moby Dick Save the World?
209
1
The Postmodern Flight from Humanism
210
2
Reclaiming the Dream
212
2
The Humanist Enterprise
214
3
Far Beyond the Stars
217
4
12 Prospero's Wand: Owning the Mythic Legacy
221
14
The Dreamworlds of Trek
222
3
Death by Interrogation
225
1
Masked Personae
226
3
Sorcerers' Apprentices
229
1
Myth and Magic on the Orient Express
230
5
Notes
235
12
Index
247