Lest you think the HuffPuff piece on Star Trek and pedophilia was unusual, here are some real doctoral disserations by people walking around with actual PhDs:

* To boldly go where no other has gone before: The construction of race and gender in ‘Star Trek’.

* The best of both worlds? Examining bodies, technologies, gender and the Borg of ‘Star Trek’.

* To boldly go: A hypermodern ethnography of ‘Star Trek’ fans’ culture and communities of consumption.

* The wrath of whiteness: The meaning of race in the generation of ‘Star Trek’.

* Teaching towards the twenty-fourth century: The social curriculum of Star Trek in the schools.

* Phenomenology of communication and culture: Michel Foucault’s thematics in the televised popular discourse of ‘Star Trek’.

* ‘Star Trek’ as cultural text: Proprietary audiences, interpretive grammars, and the myth of the resisting reader.

* Jung and Picard: Archetypes and the modern myth of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’