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Jewish Themes in Star Trek: Where no rabbi has gone before!
Summary[]
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- Rabbi Gershom takes you where no rabbi has gone before! You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this well-researched and reader-friendly journey into Jewish themes, actors, writers, in-jokes and subtexts in the Star Trek universe. Inspired by a class he taught at the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, the book explores such things as:
- The Jewish origin of the Vulcan salute
- How Vulcan culture is based on rabbinical Judaism
- "Who is a Jew" among Trek characters in episodes, movies and the novels
- How Talmudic logic helped expand the Star Trek universe
- Why Ferengi values are NOT Jewish values
- – and much more!
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Table of contents[]
- Chapter 1: In the Beginning...
- Chapter 2: Great Bird of the Galaxy
- Chapter 3: Who are the Jews?
- Chapter 4: Live Long and Prosper
- Chapter 5: Pointed Ears and Jewish Noses
- Chapter 6: Patterns of Force
- Chapter 7: Vulcans, Romulans, and Israelis
- Chapter 8: The Great Triad – Kirk, Spock, and McCoy
- Chapter 9: From Generation to Generation
- Chapter 10: Between Two Worlds
- Chapter 11: Ferengis are Us??
- Chapter 12: Assimilate This!!
- Chapter 13: The God Thing
- Chapter 14: The Good and Evil Within
- Chapter 15: The Quest for Eden
- Conclusion: The Journey Continues
- Appendix A: Vulcan's Forge and Well of Souls
- Appendix B: The Torah of Star Trek
- Appendix C: Jewish References in TOS Trek