Table of Contents Abbreviations Used viii Preface 1 Introduction: These Are the Voyages. 5 Part I: Elementary, Dear Trekker (A Primer) 17 1. Logical, or at Least Plausible: Genre and Science Fiction 19 2. Space. The Final Frontier 35 3. Maritime Histories 51 Part II: Rule, Britannia! Britannia Rules Outer Space in Star Trek! (A Voyage) 67 4. "Off the starboard bow": Star Trek's Naval Corpus 69 5. "All I ask is a tall ship": Sailing the Ocean of Space 87 6.
 "Captain's prerogative": Star Trek's Hornblowers in Space 109 7. "Take her out": Nautical Traditions and ÂRe-imagined Nautical Life in Space 138 8. "The benevolent empire of good intentions": Star Trek's Neo-Enlightenment 177 Conclusion: What You Leave Behind 221 Chapter Notes 231 Works Cited 255 Index 265.