Each month, we assign 'Hebrew School Homework'—a few episodes or other resources that we plan on talking about in the following episode. Do you need to watch every month? Probably not, and we'll do our best to recap the relevant points. Listen, worst case scenario you've watched a little bit of Star Trek.
Season 1
Episode | Homework |
1: Where No Jew Has Gone Before | none |
2: A Delta Quadrant Yom Kippur | VOY Day of Honor (4x03) |
3: Q the Accuser, and Other Creatures | TNG All Good Things... (7x25) |
4: Golem Picard | PIC season 1 (1x01 - 1x10) |
5: Jews in Space | TNG Sub Rosa (7x14) |
6: Spock Z"L, Leonard Z"L | TOS Amok Time (2x02); TOS Journey to Babel (2x10); TAS Yesteryear (1x02) |
7: The Lobed Elephant in the Room |
TNG The Last Outpost (1x05); DS9 Family Business (3x23); DS9 Bar Association (4x16); DS9 The Magnificent Ferengi (6x10) |
8: Darmok Picard | TNG Darmok (5x02) |
9: The Goatee Inclination | TOS The Enemy Within (1x04); TOS Mirror, Mirror (2x10); TNG Datalore (1x12); DSC Despite Yourself (1x10) |
Yom Kippur Bonus Episode: Day of Honor / Day of Atonement | none |
10: Seventy Facets: Jews, Gender, Jadzia and J’naii | TNG The Outcast (5x17); DS9 Facets (3x25); ENT Cogenitor (2x22) |
11: The Clerk of Gallitep | Duet (1x10); The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018) |
12: Four Ensigns Enter the Pardes |
LD Temporal Edict (1x03); LD Moist Vessel (1x04); LD No Small Parts (1x10) |
Season 2
Episode | Homework |
1: Literally Saving the Whales | TNG Force of Nature (7x09); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home |
2: Time, Space and Courage | none |
3: After the Burn | DSC That Hope Is You, Part I (3x01); DSC Forget Me Not (3x04); DSC Unification III (3x07) |
4: NOT CANON!!! | DSC New Eden (2x01); ENT Awakening (4x08) |
5: Benny Russell is Dreaming of Us | TOS Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (3x15); DS9 Far Beyond the Stars (6x13) |
6: Conversion (no, not matter/anti-matter conversion | DS9 You Are Cordially Invited (6x07) |
7: Time Helix | none |
8: Captain David Gold: Don't Call it a Midrash (Parts I & II) |
"Creative Couplings" novella by Glenn Hauman and Aaron Rosenberg, found in either a) Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings (anthology) or b) S.C.E eBooks #47 (Part 1) and #48 (Part 2); "An Easy Fast" by John Ordover, found in Tales from the Captain's Table, ed. Keith R.A. DeCandido |
9: For You Were Strangers | DS9 Sanctuary (2x10) |
Yom Kippur Bonus Episode: Live from the Jewish Museum | none |
10: Space Nazis (Or, Misadventures on the Paramount Backlot) | TOS Patterns of Force (2x21); ENT Storm Front, Parts I & II (4x01, 4x02) |
11: Oral Traditions (Or, The One with Picard's Flute) | TNG The Inner Light (5x25) |
12: Where We've Gone Before | TOS The Corbomite Maneuver (1x10) |