"It would be wrong to read this book as an analysis ofStarTrekfor teachers. it would be equally inappropriate to read it as journalistic reporting on Trekdom. It is instead a deeply serious contribution to curriculum theory. It situates this theory in a new place - a realm of the popular - in such a way that any reader will be ready to do important curriculum work in response." -- Education Review, July 13, 2001

• Series Editor’s Foreword: The Ponderosa and the Enterprise: Go Up, Young Man, to the Final Frontier CHAPTER 1 Gnosticism Is the Final Frontier: When the Red, Red Trekker Went Hale-Bopp, Bopping Along….CHAPTER 2 The Way, the Truth, and the Light CHAPTER 3 Intermezzo for NASA, Star Fleet, the Armed Services, and Giant Corporations in B Sharp CHAPTER 4 Klingon as Curriculum: Militias, Minstrel Shows, and Other Language Games CHAPTER 5 Resistance Is Futile: You Will Be Assimilated into the Predatory Jungle CHAPTER 6 On Top of Old Mount Olympus, All Covered with Trek; or Mama, Don’t Let Your Trekker Grow Up to Be a Fascist