Monday, June 9, 2014

The Talmud of Star Trek

StarTrek Inner Lightby Matthue Roth for Jewniverse

The Talmud says that killing a single person is like destroying the entire world. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light" (1992), writer Morgan Gendel took the concept literally. Inspired by the Talmudic concept, he crafted an episode in which a thousand-year-old alien artifact stores the memories of an entire civilization and implants it in the mind of the Enterprise's captain, Jean-Luc Picard.

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