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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!