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Cardassians

history of
Klingons and
maps and
Native American comparison
Nazi comparison
Soviet Union comparison
terrorism and

Caretaker

Carroll, Lewis

Carter, Jimmy

Celestials (Marvel Comics)

Central Command

Cestus III

Chakotay, Commander

Chang, General

Chapel, Nurse

Charlemagne (Holy Roman emperor)

Charles IV (emperor of Luxembourg)

Chekov, Ensign/Commander Pavel

Children of the Sun

Cochrane, Zefram

Cody, Buffalo Bill

Cold War

Cardassians as Soviets
Klingons and
Old West analogy and
social change and
Vietnam War and

Composicione Sphere Solide, De

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Coon, Gene

Cooper, James Fenimore

Cornelius
(Planet of the Apes)

Crater, Robert

Crusher, Dr. Beverly

Crusher, Ensign Wesley

Custer, George Armstrong

Damar, Gul

Daren, Lt. Nella

Data, Lt.

holodeck and
literature and
technology and
terrorism and
tricksters and

Dawson, Roxann

Dax, Jadzia

Dax, Lt. Ezri

Deadwood (South Dakota)

death

Final Frontier as Old West
genocide and
Klingons and
mortality and trickster mythology

DeCandido, Keith R. A.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Gibbon)

Deep Space and Sacred Time
(Wagner, Lundeen)

Deep Space Station K-7

de Gobineau, Count Joseph Arthur

de Lancie, John.
See also
Q

Denevans

Detapa Council

Deutsch, David

Devlin, William J.

Dickens, Charles

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Dominion

Dorvan V

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Dr. Kildare
(television show)

draco lizards

Dukat, Gul

Durango (Troi)

Duras

Dykstra, John

Ebert, Roger

Eddigton, Michael

Einhard

Ekos

Eleen

Eli

Ellison, Harlan

Eminiar

“engage”

Evek, Gul

Experiment in Criticism, An
(Lewis)

Eymorg

Facebook

Farpoint Station

Female Founder

Finn, Kyril

Fisher

Fletcher, James

Forge

Fox, Ambassador Robert

“Frankenstein complex”

Frankenstein
(Shelley)

Frederick Barbarossa (Holy Roman Emperor)

Freiberger, Fred

Gagarin, Yuri

gangsters, social change and

Garak

Gem

gender

Bajoran “comfort women” and
gender role portrayal
Klingons and
maps and
Uhura character and
women in technology fields

George (whale)

Geraghty, Lincoln

Gerardus Mercator

Gibbon, Edward

Gill, John

Gillian

gilvo

glommer

Goldberg, Whoopi

Golden Bull of 1356

Gorkon

Gorn

Gowron, Chancellor

Gracie (whale)

Grandfather Paradox

Great Houses

Green, Colonel

Greene, Eric

Greenpeace

greetings, Vulcan

Gre'thor

Guinan

Gulf War (1991)

Gunfighter Nation
(Slotkin)

Henry, David L.

Henry the Lion (duke of Saxony)

Hickok, Wild Bill

High Council

Hill, Dixon (Picard)

“hill people”

Hitler, Adolf

Hollander, Frank

Holmes, Sherlock

Holocaust

holodeck

Holy Roman Empire, Klingons and

Horta

How William Shatner Changed the World
(documentary)

Hudson, Lt. Commander Cal

Hunter, Captain

IBM

Incident at Oglala

Independent Television Corporation (ITC)

Indian Civil Rights Act

Indian Self-Determination and Education Act (1975)

“infinite diversity in infinite combinations” (IDIC)

Ingalls, Don

Internet, history of

Iotians

Iran

hostage crisis (1979)
Iran-Contra scandal

Isak

Jackson, Tom

Jameson

Janeway, Captain Kathryn

Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
maps and
Native American themes and
technology and
time travel and

Jarada

Jemison, Mae

Jessica (
Logan's Run
)

Johnson, George Clayton

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Mark

Jonson, Ben

Justman, Robert

Kagan, Janet

Kahless

kahs-wan

Kaiser Broadcasting

kal-if-fee

Kamin

Kang

Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm

Karidian, Anton

katra

Keeler, Edith

Keeve

K'Ehleyr

Kennedy, John F.

Kennelly, Vice Admiral

Kes

Khan Noonien Singh

Khitomer massacre

Khon-Ma

Kim, Ensign

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kirk, Captain/Admiral James T.

Cardassians and
Cold War and
creation of character
Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
Klingons and
literature and
maps and
medicine and
Native American themes and
social change and
species extinction and
time travel and
tricksters and
Uhura and
Vietnam War and
Vulcans and

Kir'Shara

Klingons

American history and
characteristics of
Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
interspecies relations
maps and
medieval comparison
species extinction and
theragen
Uhura character and
Vietnam War and

K'mpec

Kobayashi Maru

Koenig, Commander
(Space: 1999)

Kohms

Kolbe, Winrich

Kolinahr ritual

Koloth

koon-ut-kal-if-fee

Kor

Kukulkan

La Forge, Geordi

Lakanta

Laren, Ensign Ro

Lawrence, D. H.

Leatherstocking Tales
(Cooper)

Lebanon war (1980s)

LeMay, Curtis

Lenard, Mark

Leonard James

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), portrayal

Lewis, C. S.

Lewis, David

literature

classics
literary scaffolding
in
Star Trek
plots

Lockwood, Michael

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Logan's Run

logic, Vulcans and

logline (“log”)

Loki Laufeyson (Norse myth)

Lukara, Lady

Lundeen, Jan

Lursa

Macias

Madred, Gul

Magellan

maps

accuracy of
cartography history
cartography history of
Star Trek
importance of
power and

Maquis

Mara

Marcus Welby, M.D.
(television show)

Martok

Marvel Comics

McCoy, Dr. Leonard “Bones”

Cardassians and
Final Frontier as Old West
literature and
medicine and
Native American themes and
social change and
time travel and
Uhura and
Vietnam War and
Vulcans and

McDowell, Roddy

McIntyre, Vonda

McLaren, Darcee L.

McVeigh, Timothy

medicine

Cardassian
emotion and
ethics of
Klingon
Native Americans and
technology and
tensions between science and

Melakon

Melville, Herman

Merikus

Milton, John

mind meld

Miramanee

Moby Dick
(Melville)

Mogh

Moore, Gorden E.

Moore, Ronald D.

Morges Manifesto

Moriarty, Dr.

Moses

Movar

Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City)

mythology

Nagelmackers, Georges

Napoli, Antonia

NASA

NASA/TREK
(Penley)

Nazis

Nero

Nerys, Major Kira

Newgard, Bob

“New Opportunities for the Humanization of Space” (Nichols)

Nhu, Madame

Nichols, Nichelle.
See also
Uhura, Lt. Nyota

Nimbus III

Nimoy, Leonard.
See also
Spock, Mr.

Nixon, Richard

Nolan, William F.

Northern Ireland, terrorism and

Notker the Stammerer

Noyes, Dr. Carl (
Dr. Kildare
character)

Number One (
Star Trek
pilot)

O'Brien, Miles

Observation Effect

Obsidian Order

Odo

Okmyx, Bela

Old West

as “manifest destiny”
Otherness and
space exploration history and
Western culture appeal

Omega IV

Orient Express

Orta

Otherness

PADD (Personal Access Display Device)

Pall, Teri

Pa'nar syndrome

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

Paramount Domestic Syndication

Paris, Lt. Tom

Peltier, Leonard

Picard, Captain Jean-Luc

artificial heart of
Cardassians and
civil war and
Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
holodeck and
literature and
maps and
Native American themes and
terrorism and
time travel and
tricksters and
Vulcans and

Picard, Jean (cartographer)

Pike, Captain

Piller, Shawn

P'Jem Monastery

Plain Style movement

Planet of the Apes
(films)

pon farr

Porter, Jennifer E.

Prohibition

Project Genesis

Ptolemy of Alexandria

Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Pulaski, Dr.

Q

Quinn

race

civil rights
interspecies relations of
Star Trek
multiculturalism
Native Americans, portrayal
Uhura character and
Vietnam War and

Rayman, Marc

Reagan, Ronald

Reformation (Vulcan)

religion

Holocaust and
social change and
Vulcan history and

Rem
(Logan's Run)

Resnik, Judith

Riker, Commander William T.

Rite of Ascension

Rite of Succession

Rockwell, Norman

Roddenberry, Gene

on gender roles
Native Americans portrayed by
on Old West themes
other television shows of
on race
Star Trek
legacy and
on technology
Vietnam War and

Roman Empire

gender roles and
social change and

Romero, Ned

Romulans

civil war and
Cold War and
Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
multiculturalism and
Neutral Zones
time travel and
Vulcans and

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rutians

Saavik, Lt.

Sakonna

Sarek, Ambassador

Scott, Montgomery “Scotty”

literature and
medicine and
social change and
technology and
time travel and
Uhura and
Vietnam War and

Sea Shepherd

Sela, Commander

Seleya, Mount

Septimus

Serling, Rod

Seven, Gary

Seven of Nine

Sha Ka Ree

Shakespeare, William

Shatner, William.
See also
Kirk, Captain/Admiral James T.

Shelley, Mary

Shermer, Michael

Sigma Iotia II

Sirella

Sisko, Commander Benjamin

Sky Spirits

Sloane, Lily

Slotkin, Richard

social change

Cold War and
gangster life and
Roman Empire and
time travel and
World War II and

social media

Solarion IV

“Song of Roland, The”

“Sound of Thunder, A” (Bradbury)

Soval

Soviet Union. See Cold War

Space: 1999
(television show)

species extinction

conservation/development conflict and
wildlife reintroduction

Spock, Mr.

Cardassians and
creation of character
death of
Final Frontier as Old West
gender roles and
Klingons and
literature and
medicine and
Native American themes and
social change and

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