The American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, the science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, and the rock and folk musician Tom Morello ('Rage Against the Machine') all share one thing in common: they are Trekkies. Gene Roddenberry's space-set Western series, along with all its successors, not only formulates a utopia but also served as a very real intervention in the media landscapes of the 1960s and then the 1980s/1990s. To this day, the television series and the 13 feature films have politically inspired generations of Trekkies. Therefore, the exploration of the history of Star Trek and its impacts is also a narrative of the left since the late 1960s. In this volume, Torsten Bewernitz discusses gender and class relations, wars, crises and pandemics, coming to terms with the past, and visions for the future that are still worth discussing today. In the spirit of an "archaeology of the future" (Ursula K. Le Guin), Torsten Bewernitz digs into the future stories of the starship Enterprise to uncover insights for the present. How Star Trek helps to understand and change the world.