About The Tao of Star Trek: Finding Your Inner Self Through Outer Space (Volume 2) by Dr. Joseph D. Di Lella:
Similar in tone and content in book one of this series,The Tao of Star Trek: Finding Your Inner Self Through Outer Space (Volume Two), examines the very best stories of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager with an application of important ideas on war and peace as introduced by Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu centuries ago.
In over ninety Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager stories reviewed in volume two, the book also links important concepts or proverbs attributed to either Sun Tzu or Lao Tzu with character arcs and problems in contemporary society.
In each lesson associated with specific Star Trek tales, story interpretation is used to show how the heroes – and villains, demonstrate the best and worst of human qualities as they attempt to work out problems in an interpersonal, inter-species or interplanetary way. Once these tales are reviewed, and prominent characters discussed, readers can more easily see how Taoist and militaristic ideas propel their favorite good and evil Bajoran, Ferengi, Cardassian, and others towards the right and wrong decisions in typical human dilemmas found in life and death matters.
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Author Bio:
As a former freelance pitch artist, Joseph submitted stories to the Roddenberry TV series, Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 2 & 3), to staff writers at Paramount Studios. Dr. Di Lella also moderated the popular panel, “Do You Have What it Takes to Pitch and Write for Star Trek?” at the San Diego Comic Con in the early 2000’s. Today, Joseph is writing non-fiction books, several on Trek, with one more coming out in early June of this year – Star Trek Storytelling – that provides readers with a tutorial on how to create fan fiction or books suitable for Kindle.