Here’s my picks for this week’s dish

The Council of Nine and the Star Trek Pantheon.
How deeply did Gene Roddenberry’s involvement with Lab-9 go?

 An Interview with Jeff Warren
The external world is mapped; now the explorers are turning inward

How to create a cult: the Asch conformity

It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

Was JFK killed because he had evolved into a threat to the war machine upon which the American economy and powers that be so rely on for wealth and the continuance of world dominance?

Michael Pollan on What’s Wrong with Environmentalism

Why environmentalists must look beyond wilderness to sustainability.