Abstract
While speculation is deemed central to humanity’s evolutionary process and humans’ authenticity, Star Trek makes the argument that the absolute operates as a progressive dialectic. Therefore, when we speculate and garner knowledge we are fulfilling the promise of the absolute, which is rational and leading humanity toward a classless society, free of gender/ethnic biases. We speculate and achieve this knowledge in spite of the risk of death. Therefore, analytic philosophy, and its fear of error, is misplaced because humans existentially fear lack of knowledge of the absolute more than they fear error and the death that can result from error.