Meta Treks is a Trek.fm podcast dedicated to a deep examination of the philosophical ideas found in Star Trek. In each episode, Zachary Fruhling and Mike Morrison take you on a fascinating journey into the inner workings of Star Trek storytelling, deeper into subspace than you've ever traveled before.
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3: I Don't Want a Thinker at the Helm
Philosopher Starship
Crews.
Zachary and Mike compare notes
on their ideal philosopher starship crews. Find out which
philosophers from the history of philosophy that Zachary and Mike
would choose to fill the various roles in a typical starship crew:
conn officer, communications officer, operations officer, science
officer, tactical officer, chief of security, chief engineer, first
officer, and captain. Zachary and Mike also consider some honorable
mentions for the roles of ship's counselor, transporter chief,
bartender or chef, the ever-present admiral or "badmiral," diplomat
or ambassador, and holodeck technician.
Philosophers covered in this
episode of Meta Treks include (in alphabetical order) Aristotle,
George Berkeley, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David Brewster, Jacques
Derrida, Albert Einstein, Epicurus, Michel Foucault, Gottlob Frege,
Sigmund Freud, Galileo Galilei, Martin Heidegger, Hippocrates,
Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, William James, Immanuel Kant, C. S.
Lewis, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Gene Roddenberry, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Socrates, Sun Tzu, Dallas Willard, and Ludwig
Wittgenstein.
Chapters
Welcome (00:01:07)
Introducing the Topic
(00:03:09)
Helm Officer (00:09:53)
Communications Officer
(00:13:18)
Ops Officer (00:17:05)
Science Officer
(00:19:41)
Tactical Officer
(00:27:45)
Chief of Security
(00:32:32)
Chief Engineer
(00:38:36)
Chief Medical Officer
(00:44:52)
First Officer
(00:51:10)
Captain (01:00:04)
Honorable Mentions
(01:06:33)
Final Thoughts
(01:18:04)
Hosts
Zachary Fruhling and Mike
Morrison
Production
Dennis Castello (Editor and
Producer) Norman C. Lao (Executive Producer) C Bryan Jones
(Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Charlynn
Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Will Nguyen (Content Manager) Richard
Marquez (Production Manager)
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