Mr. Spock and the Jewish mysticism behind LLAP

I actually knew the story behind LLAP, but did not know that he and another actress in that episode discussed the hand gesture.

I loved the old "Star Trek", because each episode was like a little morality play.  One in particular, "Let this be your last battlefield" stands out:

Commissioner Bele was played by Frank Gorshin.  The character was half white and half black; on the opposite sides that Lokai had his half black and half white.  The entire episode dealt with deeply ingrained racism.

Back to the hand gesture; yes, it was taken from the Jewish tradition, but Star Trek viewers didn't know that, they perceived it as a secular gesture, such as a handshake.  So don't credit religion for a secular phenomenon.

Oh and about "the old blasphemer spewing his hatred in the form of lousy poetry", did it ever occur to you that he had a negative experience, or multiple negative experiences, with religion?  As have I?  There is a dark side to religion whether or not you want to acknowledge it.

I'd like to quote another great actor, the late Ian McKellan: "I'm an atheist. There's a lot about the Catholic Church I don't approve of, simply because they don't approve of me."

For my part, 'being excused' is not sought. I don't excuse the people responsible for my negative experiences with the dark side of religion. I know they did it for a reason, but their reason was flawed. If any of them have ever become aware of the wrong they did, they probably thought that their god has forgiven them. But I haven't.

YES!

In ten years, a few of us will be left to ask, where were you on September 2nd, 2017?

Oh, thank goodness, I'm glad to be wrong... didn't we lose another older British actor recently?  Who was I thinking of?

Edit: Alan Rickman

Last week BBC showed that one (they run the old series all night Friday evenings).

Appropriate timing, I thought.