|
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social |
Ok! Did you know that the character of Spock & the Vulcan “live long and prosper” 🖖🏽 is actually drawn from the Torah & informed by Nimoy’s Jewish heritage? As a child, Nimoy was in synagogue & snuck a look at the Konahim blessing 🖖🏽. ST centered pluralistic society & he made it part of his character
51 replies 106 reposts 1040 likes
|
Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom
@rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Nimoy wrote a bit more about this in "I Am Spock" and his description of sneaking that peak is breathtaking. It's one of the few topics that brings out the spiritual side in me.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
ᴅᴏᴡɴ10⸻
@down10.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I did, in fact. Being in The Tribe has taught me a few things
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
James Yang
@jamesyang.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Omg one of my favorite Representatives is a Star Trek fan what a good time to be alive
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
maK
@italianmak.bsky.social
[ View ] |
aoc thank you for this fun fact i feel greater for knowing this
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
dillo (the yakubian mamba)
@dillo.media
[ View ] |
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Van Badham
@vanbadham.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You are, and will always remain, my favourite.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
James
@jamesriverside.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Why is this woman not our president yet?!
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Lynne Ann Morse
@morselya.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Grew up comfort-reading over and over The Making of Star Trek. That's where I learned this!
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Hank Peña
@hankpena.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A politician I can chill with? Amazing!
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Gedalia
@gedalia.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Was always confused about all the Vulcans when visiting the cemetery. (Kohanim often have 🖖🏼on their tombstones) But seriously I had no idea what was going on as a little kid and was warned “no peeking” and was kinda shocked when I discovered Nimoy just tweeted it out.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
dax
@dax22.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Holy shit I did not know this, awesome. THANK YOU for being amazing as always aoc
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
@laterhozn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It is also a little known fact that the original line was Long Live and Prosper, and Nimoy changed that 🤓🖖🏼
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Elad Nehorai
@eladn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Fun fact: Jews are informed of this fact when they reach Bar/Bat Mitzvah and are legally required to bring it up every time someone mentions Star Trek in front of them.
1 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
Thierry Emanuel
@thierryemanuel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I Hope you follow @spockresist
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Secretoriginz
@secretoriginz.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I did know that. The Vulcan salute is also drawn from Jewish religious ceremonies.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ari Young
@ariyoung.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Interesting l, I always thought of the Vulcans as being inspired by Japanese culture, but that wasn’t based on anything but my own viewpoint.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
hanser🐦⬛
@hanser.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Learning Star Trek facts from a sitting Congresswoman on social media seems about right for These Times.
0 replies 1 reposts 9 likes
|
Yee yee
@yeeyee187.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Jesse Dahl
@thisistherevolt.com
[ View ] |
How do you feel about *this* episode of DS9?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Bethany Morgan 🔆🌹🐌
@bethanygabagool.bsky.social
[ View ] |
@gaypril.bsky.social she’s so based
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Carlos Unleashed
@asktheprisoner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If we all felt each other's fear, pain, and general duhkha, then we'd understand one another, and hate, fear, anger and prejudice would be dispelled. No more wars, only peace. We'd all get each other. And in return: Get it. Let's put that in a sci-fi utopia...
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Carlos Unleashed
@asktheprisoner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As an insane TNG, DS9, and VOY fan, and now DIS. I wonder if you've ever read Peter F. Hamilton's "The Void Trilogy"? I ask because, not only do I find PFH's sociopolitical future an extension of ST, but the sci/tech is so progressive as well! Imagine an empathic/emotion sharing web!
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Star Trek has always been a show of deep political and social commentary, both in its content and production. It featured the first interracial kiss on TV. Uhura was one of the most progressive black characters on TV at the time. When she wanted to leave, MLK wrote to her to convince her to stay
22 replies 28 reposts 479 likes
|
Anthony Atamanuik
@therealtony.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yes, Rabbi’s would do the hand symbol when the congregation had their heads bowed. But Nimoy, as a kid, took a peak and suggested it to Roddenberry when they were developing the character. Nimoy grew up in West Boston near where I grew up in Chelsea MA, but now I’m one of your constituents!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Alex Howard
@digiphile.bsky.social
[ View ] |
LLAP 🖖🏻
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Michael H. Weber
@mhweber.bsky.social
[ View ] |
favorite Star Trek film?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Schrödinger’s Nerd
@nerd2pointo.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Now this is what I am here for. Elected officials getting their historical geek on! Props to you AOC!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Daniel Rubin
@danielrubin.bsky.social
[ View ] |
(Kohanim)
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Pookerus
@pookerus.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Damn, aoc is a bigger nerd than I am, that's really cool
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
millennial leprechaun
@yanky.bsky.social
[ View ] |
*Kohanim
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Marc Boorshtein
@mlbiam.bsky.social
[ View ] |
STARWARS DESERVES EQUAL TIME! UNFAIR!!!!
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Matt Gordon (He/Him, mostly) ✡️🏳️🌈
@drmattyg.com
[ View ] |
You should check out Leonard Nimoy’s book of photography he produced late in his life, Shekhina:
www.amazon.com/Shekhina-Leonard-Nimoy/dp/1884167160
“Shekhina” is Hebrew for the “god spirit”, and was supposedly visible between the fingers of the high priests during the benediction
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Erik
@erikepost.com
[ View ] |
I am not technically your constituent, but with perspectives like this, I'd like to consider you my honorary Representative.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ann Laabs 🏳️🌈
@annlaabs.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As a huge TOS nerd, I did know this🖖
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Anthony Mountjoy
@mountjoy.bsky.social
[ View ] |
While the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, was not Jewish, his two initial co-writers, Bob Justman and Herb Solow, were.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Mex Asher
@thatnsukkaboy.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Interesting
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Jamsheed Studios
@jamsheedstudios.bsky.social
[ View ] |
What's your opinion on the lack of diversity in the TNG main cast? Only two non white people in every episode, and one of them didn't play a Human.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
k II
@midnightman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
nice
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Arturo R. Garcia
@aboynamedart.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The SNW opener was pretty solid. Can't wait for the Lower Decks crossover
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Brazil201
@brazil201.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Of the new paramount+ era of Star Trek shows which do you think is the best? Picard, New Worlds, Discovery. Discovery with the soft reboot once they go to the far far future makes it truly great, but the Nostalgia with Picard season 3 and the potential of the seven of 9 spin-off
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
She/herazade
@transgenderhistory.bsky.social
[ View ] |
AOC I know you're buds with Jagmeet here in Canada - his predecessor as NDP leader Jack Layton used to go to Star Trek conventions dressed as a TNG era officer I was still a teenager when I saw that so I didn't have any specific ideology yet. But I knew the left was the right way
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Damzel
@damright.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hanım kuz burda da çata çat muhalif.. Konuş kız!
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Silmaria 🏳️⚧️
@silmaria.bsky.social
[ View ] |
His telling of this story over several interviews & etc are lovely.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Pedantic Peppermint
@pedantic.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Any Deep Space Nine hot takes?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Scott Raymond
@skawt.net
[ View ] |
I found this in the Jewish Quarter museum in Venice a few years ago. Take a close look at the top.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Zenlady
@zenlady.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Decades ago, I went to a talk by Nimoy, who told this story.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
❤️OccupyOneLove❤️ "K"
@occupyonelove.bsky.social
[ View ] |
yes
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
🇵🇸That🇵🇸King🇵🇸Therapy🇵🇸Taste🇵🇸
@kingtherapy.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This is the hand sign for the Hebrew letter "shin". Used to signify Shaddai, "Lord" or Shekinah, "Spirit". It's similar to the 'Arabic letter shin, which was derived from earlier Nabatean script.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Mike Rose
@miketrose.bsky.social
[ View ] |
One of the best things about Trek. “I love that when people give the Vulcan salute, they don’t know it but they are blessing each other.” thecjn.ca/arts/the-jewish-origins-of-the-vulcan-salute/
(Spelled “Kohanim” aka Kahn/Cohen although I love “Konahim” too 🏄♂️)
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Mr. Spock 🖖
@spockresists.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Indeed AOC 🖖🖖🖖🖖
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes