Acknowledgments Introduction Michael G. Cornelius and Sherry Ginn Part One. Narrative: Creating and Crafting the Story of Deep Space Nine "Every choice we make has a consequence": Serialized Storytelling in Star Trek's Episodic Universe Val Nolan The Static Space Opera: Dispersed and Sedimental Saturation of the Star Trek Storyworld Florent Favard Thinking Space: Identity and Cognition in Deep Space Nine Franklin R. Halprin Trauma, Psychological Development, and the Triumph of Kira Nerys Sherry Ginn "A very unformed being": Odo's Rhizomatic Journey Toward Selfhood Erin Bell Part Two. Race, Gender, Religion: Examining Themes and Tropes Illustrated on Deep Space Nine Class Division and Biopolitics in "Past Tense" Douglas Rasmussen The Unkillable Idea of Benny Russell: Afrofuturist Temporalities and "Far Beyond the Stars" Dylan Reid Miller (Un)Radical Feminism: Gender and the Limits of Imagination Rowan Bell Sisko's Conversion Experience and the Secularism of William James: Exploring Faith, Religion, and the Visions of the Prophets Drew Chastain Traversing/able Sacred Space: The Bajoran Wormhole as Spiritual Journey Michael G. Cornelius Epilogue Sherry Ginn Appendix A: List of Deep Space Nine Episodes by Season Appendix B: List of Non–Deep Space Nine Star Trek Episodes Cited in Text Appendix C: Star Trek Filmography About the Contributors Index