Leonard nimoy i am not spock5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() He felt slugging a villain was too boorish, so suggested an alternative that became the Vulcan Nerve Pinch. The stories of how Nimoy personally tweaked the character of Spock to perfection have been told numerous times. ![]() To argue which has a greater impact would be illogical. But when he saw a poster with Leonard Nimoy and his pointy ears, even he couldn’t keep up the charade: “Oh, yeah, that’s Spock. I got the clear sense that his ignorance was deliberate, and proud. He’d heard the title, but couldn’t even name any of the Captains. In 2007 I went to the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas with a videographer who had never once seen an episode. And she just called to say she was sorry about the passing of “Dr Spock”, and I’ll never quite know if that famous malapropism was intentional. She admitted defeat when I started writing the One Trek Mind column on, and began hosting panels at Star Trek conventions. My mother, who referred to the show as Star Dreck, would snap off the TV and tell me to do my homework, that there was always a Red Alert, and, as if daring me, said there are no careers in watching Star Trek. Laugh at us all you want, but we Star Trek fans? We are operating on a different level. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |