Star Trek TOS Jewish Connection

[sbk1234]

I never caught that before! I guess I'm too used to the small tallis to have thought it unusual.


It reminds me of Men In Tights. My gentile friend saw it, but said he didn't understand half of it.

 

[A beaker full of death]

sbk1234 said:

It reminds me of Men In Tights. My gentile friend saw it, but said he didn't understand half of it.

You know, given all the yiddishisms and Jewish cultural references in movies and on tv (from the Marx Bros. on), it never occurred to me that most goyim would miss a lot of them until I moved out of NY.

 

[Sulu_Love_child]

Your comment reminds me of something funny but true that a Rabbi used to tell the local goyim: "Silly goyim mitzvahs are for yids."

 

[sbk1234]

I know that this is focused on TOS, but nobody has mentioned that Worf was raised by Jews.

 

[A beaker full of death]

sbk1234 said:
I know that this is focused on TOS, but nobody has mentioned that Worf was raised by Jews.

Was that established? They were Russian, and Theo Bikel is certainly Jewish, but were the characters?

 

[Outpost4]

^ I hope not. Would you want to circumcise a Klingon?

 

[EyalM]

^ The original script called for Worf parents to be hassidic Jews. But the felt it might seem too comical so they dropped that aspect. So I guess their Jewishness is now fanon.

 

[Alyssa]

I don't know a lot about Jewish culture and traditions but i do know that Leonard Nimoy served for a short time in world war 2 so given that and the fact that he is Jewish imagine what it must have been like for him to dress up as a Nazi for the episode 'Patterns of Force'. Anyone know anything about Nimoys thoughts on that?

 

[A beaker full of death]

Alyssa said:
I don't know a lot about Jewish culture and traditions but i do know that Leonard Nimoy served for a short time in world war 2 so given that and the fact that he is Jewish imagine what it must have been like for him to dress up as a Nazi for the episode 'Patterns of Force'. Anyone know anything about Nimoys thoughts on that?

Nimoy was 14 years old when the war ended.
And Shatner is Jewish too.

 

[Jeri]

Plum said:
^^^
Gotta say... they look tasty.

Pretty sure that tribbles are what Krusty the Clown referred to as the critter with "more legs" from which they made the Ribwich. We just can't see the legs. They pull them in like turtles do.

 

[Plum]

^^^
Oh, that Simpson's made me hungry!

 

[toonloon]

Alyssa said:
i do know that Leonard Nimoy served for a short time in world war 2 so given that and the fact that he is Jewish imagine what it must have been like for him to dress up as a Nazi for the episode 'Patterns of Force'.

You're not thinking of a film you might have seen by any chance are you?

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

A beaker full of death said:

sbk1234 said:

It reminds me of Men In Tights. My gentile friend saw it, but said he didn't understand half of it.

You know, given all the yiddishisms and Jewish cultural references in movies and on tv (from the Marx Bros. on), it never occurred to me that most goyim would miss a lot of them until I moved out of NY.

Unsurprising I guess, there was a spoof series set around the mishaps of a pair of Catholic priests in Ireland, I commented to my friends that to get the best out of it you really needed to be Catholic, ideally related to a priest/bishop.

 

[sbk1234]

Alyssa said:
I don't know a lot about Jewish culture and traditions but i do know that Leonard Nimoy served for a short time in world war 2 so given that and the fact that he is Jewish imagine what it must have been like for him to dress up as a Nazi for the episode 'Patterns of Force'. Anyone know anything about Nimoys thoughts on that?

I suppose it could be akin to Robert Clary from Hogan's Heroes, who was a prisoner in a concentration camp. No, he didn't usually wear a Nazi uniform, but it still dealt with the whole Nazi regime in a very cavalier manner.

 

[Jeri]

The Squire of Gothos said:
Unsurprising I guess, there was a spoof series set around the mishaps of a pair of Catholic priests in Ireland, I commented to my friends that to get the best out of it you really needed to be Catholic, ideally related to a priest/bishop.

If you mean Father Ted, Catholicism is no prerequisite.

 

[seigezunt]

Plum said:
What I wanna know is... are tribbles kosher?

well, they may chew their cud, but they definitely don't have hooves.

They do look like gefilte fish, though.

 

[A beaker full of death]

sbk1234 said:
I suppose it could be akin to Robert Clary from Hogan's Heroes, who was a prisoner in a concentration camp. No, he didn't usually wear a Nazi uniform, but it still dealt with the whole Nazi regime in a very cavalier manner.

Of course, John Banner (Schultz) and Werner Klemperer were both jews. Klemperer also appeared as a war criminal in Judgment at Nuremberg.
Clary wrote a book and lectures on his experience.

 

[Basill]

seigezunt said:

Plum said:
What I wanna know is... are tribbles kosher?

well, they may chew their cud, but they definitely don't have hooves.

They do look like gefilte fish, though.

Ooo, I'm doing gefilte fish tonight! I'll pretend I'm eating tribbles.

 

[sbk1234]

A beaker full of death said:

sbk1234 said:
I suppose it could be akin to Robert Clary from Hogan's Heroes, who was a prisoner in a concentration camp. No, he didn't usually wear a Nazi uniform, but it still dealt with the whole Nazi regime in a very cavalier manner.

Of course, John Banner (Schultz) and Werner Klemperer were both jews. Klemperer also appeared as a war criminal in Judgment at Nuremberg.
Clary wrote a book and lectures on his experience.

I'll have to claim ignorance. I didn't know that about Banner and Klemberer. Hats off to them.

As an aside, I always thought if they made a Hogan's Heroes remake, Patrick Stewart would be a perfect Klink.

 

[Jeri]

Klemperer said he would only do the show if the Nazis were made to look like buffoons.

I have the HH episode soundtracks ripped from DVD for iPod, and they are just as funny without the picture as with it.

Edit: John Banner was a poster model for a US war bonds poster. I saw it in the press when the show was first on. He was very good looking.