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Memory Patterns: Slowness, digital anxiety, and franchise recall in the original Star Trek films (1979–91)

Science Fiction Film & Television
:This article asserts that the original Star Trek films (1979–91) have importance for the study of memory and media in the digital era. I advance several interrelated arguments, with a special emphasis on Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Adam Ochonicky
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Evil doctor, ethical android: Star Trek's instantiation of conscience in subroutines.

Early Human Development, 2020
Machine intelligence, whether it constitutes Strong artificial intelligence (AI) or Weak AI, may have varying degrees of independence. Both Strong and Weak AIs are often depicted as being programmed with safeguards which prevent harm to humanity ...
V. Grech, Mariella Scerri
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The banality of evil in the occupation of Star Trek's bayor.

Early Human Development, 2020
Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele were high-ranking Nazis, two among many who were tasked with implementing the Final Solution. Eichmann's eventual trial evidenced a dull ordinariness that was famously defined as the banality of evil by the political ...
V. Grech
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Medical nanotechnology in Star Trek: A force for both good and evil.

Early Human Development, 2020
Nanotechnology is defined as the study, creation and utilisation of structures ranging in size between 1 and 100 nm. Nanotechnology in Star Trek has been used by both the benevolent Federation (to which humanity belongs) and the Borg, a malevolent ...
V. Grech
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Star Trek, medicine, ethics, nanotechnology and nursing.

Early Human Development, 2020
The first collection of Star Trek (ST) papers in this journal concentrated on the various doctors that appeared in ST in chronological screening order.
V. Grech
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Social Movements and the Collective Identity of the Star Trek Fandom

, 2020
Since it first aired in 1966, Star Trek has led American television into a more progressive era by presenting a diverse cast interacting as equals, demonstrating expertise and efficiency as they lead a starship across the galaxy.
David G. Loconto
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Doctors in Star Trek: The emergency medical hologram in Star Trek: Voyager

Early Human Development, 2020
Doctors are important characters in Star Trek. After a disaster that strands the starship Voyager on the other side of the galaxy and kills all of the medical personnel, the ship is forced to rely solely on the Emergency Medical Hologram, a sentient piece of holographic technology.
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Star Trek and Star Wars

2022
In Star Trek and Star Wars: The Enlightenment versus the Anti-Enlightenment, George A. Gonzalez shows that these two behemoths of popular culture put the Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment before the viewing public. Star Trek is arguably the popular culture vehicle most reflective of the Enlightenment: a belief in political and social progress ...
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Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Helen Pulasky in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Early Human Development, 2020
Dr. Helen Pulaski served as Chief Medical Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise in the 24th century (in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation). She was depicted as a grumpy and curmudgeonly character in the mould of Dr. "Bones" McCoy in the original series from the 1960s. Like all other Star Trek Doctors, her skills are legion and she is
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Doctors in Star Trek: Dr. Beverley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Early Human Development, 2020
This paper will review Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and in subsequent films. This formidable woman epitomizes the rise of feminism in the 1980s and 1990s, with the subsequent feminization of all of the professions, including medicine.
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