Inception and the Interpretation of Art ; The Matrix and the Value of Knowledge ; The Matrix Sequels and Human Free Will ; The Adjustment Bureau, the Force, and Fate ; Contact: Science versus Religion ; Arrival: Aliens and Radical Translation -- Interstellar: Is Time Travel Possible? ; Doctor Who and Time Travel Paradoxes ; Star Trek: TNG and Alternate Worlds ; Dark City, Dollhouse, and Personal Identity ; Westworld and A.I. Artificial Intelligence ; Transcendence and the Dangers of AI -- The Thirteenth Floor: Are We Simulated? ; The Orville, Orwell, and the "Black Mirror" ; Star Wars: Good versus Evil ; Firefly, Blake's 7, and Political Rebellion ; Starship Troopers, Doctor Who, and Just War ; The Prime Directive and Postcolonialism -- Capitalism in Metropolis, Elysium, and Panem ; Snowpiercer and Climate Change ; Soylent Green: Overpopulation and Euthanasia ; Gattaca and the Ethics of Reproduction ; The Handmaid's Tale: Feminism and Religion ; Kubrick's 2001 and Nietzsche's Übermensch.
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