Torah and Star Trek

I grew up watching Star Trek (TNG), and I always appreciated how they grappled with moral philosophical issues. Here is a neat post that compares different Star Trek shows with (a loose interpretation of) each of the Ten Commandments.

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God is definitely not a fan of idol worship, and the folks from the Enterprise take a very dim view of the practice, too–particularly when they’re the ones being idolized.

In “Star Trek: The Next Generation”’s “Who Watches the Watchers,” Captain Jean-Luc Picard is mistaken for a god by a culture just a step removed from the Stone Age. He tries to correct the matter by giving one of the inhabitants a grand tour of the ship, patiently explaining the technology behind it all as he goes.

The visiting inhabitant’s convinced, but the village leader? Not so much. So Picard goes down to the planet in person and nearly dies–just to prove his own mortality. It might’ve been easier had he just pointed to his cranium and hollered, “Don’t you think if I was a god I would’ve given myself hair?”

Picard doesn’t do faith any favors in this episode, telling the settlers they’d be better off without religion at all. Still, better that than worshipping a starship captain, right?

Read the full article here (via Neatorama).