In the Voyager episode Tuvix, a transporter accident combines Neelix and Tuvok, two of Voyager’s crew, into a single person named Tuvix. Tuvix had memories of both characters and a personality that combined traits from both of them. He lived on the ship for some time before a possible cure was discovered. Unfortunately, the cure…
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Circumcising a Klingon
The TNG episode Ethics gave fans an up close look at brak’lul – a feature of Klingon anatomy where many vital organs have duplicates. For example, Klingons have two stomachs, three lungs, two livers, etc. Ever since then, fans on the Internet have wondered if Klingon males had two male members. In Star Trek Discovery…
Transporter for The Soul
In the Star Trek Universe the transporter can be used to move people and objects across great distances. Although from the name transporter one might assume it moves things through space, it actually doesn’t. A transporter disassembles the person or object at the source, and then reassembles an exact copy at the destination to recreate…
Is the Heart of a Targ Kosher?
Klingons speak frequently about eating the heart of a Targ, and it is eaten in the Klingon Day of Honor ceremony. If a Jew were invited to join with some Klingon friends, could the Jew partake of a Targ heart as well? Many people say seem to believe that since blood is not allowed to…
Do Jewish Zombies Need to Eat Kosher Brains?
This blog post is based on a siur I gave last year. You can see the source sheet for the shiur at Sefaria. The Talmud derives in several places (Shabbat 30a, shabbat 151b, Niddah 61b) the principle that the dead are not obligated to perform mitzvot. This is one of the reasons that we can…