Jack Howard

Star Trek Jack Howard

Stardate 2020 I love Trek. I love the themes, values, and frequent Jewish roots. But I loathe being told how to think. How ironic, then, that a product that's so uplifting in its creation has become a symbol of something else. In this edition (the fourth) of my book, I leave some things alone: I don't agree with everything I've written here, from 2003. Having said that, I think it's a good book to reassess just how far Americans have gone, down the serpentine road of Vulcan illogic since 2003. Not that's it all bad, despite what my co-religionists often claim. In the best of Trek traditions, this book is meant to argue and discuss, to challenge more than what we think: it's to actually own HOW we think. If anything, what I see as an alarming attack on the unorthodox and traditional, and religious and fundamental (yes, they are all co-occurring) is at risk in this Orwellian era of crisis after crisis. The other thing I love about this book, written from 1999 to 2003 is that I made "future forecasts," with Trek as a template for those predictions. Certainly, I'm no prophet. It's fun, however, to look at how things did or did not pan out...before the ubiquity of personal hand-held devices such as smart phones!