M&D star trek reference

[Dave Monroe]

Ordered this at 15% off from the publisher ...

Pounds, Michael C.  Race in Space: The
   Representation of Ethnicity in Star Trek and
   Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Lanham, MD:
   Scarecrow Press, 1999.

http://www.scarecrowpress.com/

And while I'm at it ...

Bacon-Smith, Camille.  Enterprising Women:
   Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth.
   Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.

Barrett, Michele and Duncan Barrett.  Star Trek:
   The Human Frontier.  New York: Routledge, 2001.

Bernardi, Daniel Leonard.  Star Trek and History:
   Race-Ing toward a White Future.  New Brunswick, NJ:
   Rutgers UP, 1998.

Byrd, Marquita L.  Multicultural Communication and
   Popular Culture: Racial and Ethnic Images in Star
   Trek.  New York: Primis, 1998.

Greenwald, Jeff.  Future Perfect: How Star Trek
   Conquered Planet Earth.  New York: Viking, 1998. 

Gregory, Chris.  Star Trek: Parallel Narratives.
   New York: St. Martin's, 2000. 

Harrison, Taylor et al., eds.  Enterprise Zones:
   Critical Positions on Star Trek.  Boulder, CO:
   Westview, 1996.

Hertenstein, Mike.  Double Vision of Star Trek:
   Half-Humans, Evil Twins, and Science Fiction.
   Chicago: Cornerstone, 1998.

Jenkins, Henry.  Textual Poachers: Television Fans
   and Participatory Culture.  NY: Routledge, 1992.

Joseph-Witham, Heather R.  Star Trek Fans and Costume
   Art.  Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.

Penley, Constance.  NASA/Trek: Popular Science and
   Sex in America.  New York: Verso, 1997.

Porter, Jennifer E. and Darcee L. McLaren, eds.
   Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star
   Trek, Religion, and American Culture.  Albany:
   SUNY Press, 1999.

Richards, Thomas.  The Meaning of Star Trek.
   San Francisco: Doubleday, 1997.

Roberts, Robin.  Sexual Generations: Star Trek, the
   Next Generation and Gender.  Urbana: U of Illinois
   P, 1999.

Tulloch, John and Henry Jenkins.  Science Fiction
   Audiences: Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Their Fans.
   New York: Routledge, 1994.

Wagner, Jon and Jan Lundeen.  Deep Space and Sacred
   Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos.  New York:
   Greenwood, 1998.

A lot of these aren't esp. great, although, of course,
I tend to favor precisely those titles that this site
...

http://www.well.com/user/sjroby/lcars/critindex.html

... whines about as being too academic or whatever. 
But what is brought up below was hinted at by Nimoy in
the Stephen Whitfield book (The Making of Star Trek
... or was it David Gerrold's The Worlds of Star Trek?
 Damn ...), esp. the difficulty some have performing
the "salute."  Live long and prosper ...

--- joshua levithan <jlevithan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The hand gesture is an old Jewish ritual, the
fingers
> forming the shin for "shaddai," one of the names of
> God-- that's all true.  Originally, I'm pretty sure,
> the gesture was associated with the priestly
> benediction (birkat haCohanim,) that is to say a
> blessing by the priests of the Jerusalem temple
cult. 
> There are still some vestigal priestly roles in the
> Jewish service, more in Jerusalem than elsewhere,
> but they're not very important.  Many Jews trace
> their lineage to the priests, either by family
> tradition or by name-- "Cohen" is the hebrew word
> for priest-- and perform these roles, most usually
> being called for the first blessing in the Torah 
> service. I don't know whether the young Nimoy would 
> have seen Cohanim brought up to perform the blessing
> or whether a rabbi assumed the function, but is not
> a part of the regular service.  I could look in to 
> when it comes up.   Thing is, the MaHaRal, the Rabbi
> of Prague, was not a cohen, as far as I could tell
> from online genealogy sites, although he did trace
> his lineage to king david!  I've also heard that the
> hand symbol was used because certain people can't
> form their hand into that shape; presumably the
> gesture was a special capability of the Cohanim.
> That is probably just speculation, though.  In any
> event-- good cute allusion and learned/pop joke
> there, big Tom.

But ...

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