Arguably, Star Trek is one of the most popular television shows ever produced. Today Star Trek includes four television series and nine motion pictures . Like some of the other television shows, Star Trek has been subject to the vagaries of producers and writers so it is difficult to generalize about the intent of the authors of Star Trek or the viewpoint of the readers. Yet, it is also clear that Star Trek has at various times been reflective, informative, and critical about the culture -American culture- that produced it. Star Trek has addressed a wide variety of issues, including war, capitalism, individualism, technology, race, gend

The setting of Deep Space Nine is a Federation space station situated next to the planet Bajor. The people of Bajor are united by their common religious faith guided by a religious oligarchy. Invisible spiritual guides called "the Prophets" directed them. The two hour premiere episode of Deep Space Nine: Emissary featured than -Commander Sisko's encounter with the Prophets, one that led both to his emotional healing and to his identification as a Bajoran's long-awaited spiritual Emissary. This introductory episode so explicitly involving a spiritual motif set a compelling tone for the exploration of religious themes in this series. On Deep Space Nine religious faith is treated as more than simply the product of superstition and the suspension of rationality depicted in the earlier series. On the other hand, certain episodes, like Shakaar, deal with the Bajoran oligarchy convey the idea that this religious leadership is also not immune to ambition and corruption.

In sum, while dismissed in the first series, religion has made a comeback in the later series, full of unanswered questions, speculations, and hints of "something more out there". With those series Star Trek has come to acknowledging the fundamentally spiritual nature of human beings, or of the human sprit, which inclines us toward transcendence.

As I mentioned before in the introduction part the Star Trek episodes were written by a large number of different authors. So it was hard to concentrated on a fixed intend of them. One thing in similar all of them is that they mirrored and modeled the society. They reinforced, challenged and reflected cultural ideas. I tried to give some particular examples from those cultural ideas. I also tried to mirror the cultural conditions in which those episodes are written. I especially tried to choose the episodes from different time periods to reflect the specific changes in the society.

er, prejudice, religion, etc. The list can be extended to many other issues but here I will focus on race, gender, prejudice and religion only. As portrayed on television such issues are representations of socio-cultural perspectives on broad human concerns. For taking a closer look to those issues, in the continuing parts I will give some examples from a number of Star Trek epis

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