His work can also be seen on, ScreenCrush and Badass Digest. Jordan Hoffman is a writer, critic and lapsed filmmaker living in New York City. If there is, however, a moment of emotional Spock I left out, please let me know in the comments below. Hopefully your green blood isn't burning too much and I haven't forgotten your favorite. Is this, too, an illogical act of emotion? What's so great about Spock is we can never be sure.
When Kirk later razzes him for behaving in such a human manor, he dances around the question, cracking everyone up. McCoy suggests, he ends up saving the survivors of his away team. By playing against the odds and acting out of passion as Dr. By jettisoning the remaining fuel of the Galileo shuttlecract and igniting it, he is essentially sending out a Hail Mary pass. It comes, oddly, when he finally pushes a button. The magic is that they are communicating with each other and we must understand that not all things are given to us to understand - nor is it necessary.“ The Galileo Seven” is basically a full hour of pushing Spock's buttons until he drops the logic and acts emotionally. "They are communicating with the whales, it's not necessarily for us to understand what they're saying to each other - it's not important. "I felt extremely, extremely strongly about that issue," he said. Nimoy fought to keep the studio from adding subtitles to the whales' communication with an alien probe. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home the crew travels back to 1986 to save humpback whales from extinction.
In return, he got to direct both that film and the fourth movie in the series.
Nimoy agreed to be resurrected in the third movie. But Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was an enormous success. He agreed to do the second Star Trek movie only if Spock was killed off. At the time, Nimoy was appearing in serious plays on Broadway. "Leonard had said he was tired of putting those ears on and he didn't want to do it anymore."ĭesperate, last-minute negotiations got Nimoy back onboard the Enterprise. "There was no Spock character in it," Wise said. Its director, Robert Wise, told NPR in 2001 he was shocked when he first read the script.
In 1979, the first Star Trek movie came out. In 1975, he wrote a book called I Am Not Spock. How?īut Nimoy's relationship to his character was ambivalent. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Am Not Spock Author Leonard Nimoy
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