Star Trek and the Christian Imagination

As a child, one of my favorite television shows was the science fiction series Star Trek (the original series), which I have written about previously. I was too young to have seen the series when it first aired in the mid-1960s, but I did watch it in re-runs a few years later. One of my favorite episodes of the series was "Bread and Circuses," which appeared near the end of the show's second…