For the Love of Spock Page #3

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are the yin and yang.

They are that in front

of the camera,

and it works beautifully,

magnificently.

There must be some intelligent

form of life on Thasus.

He could not possibly

have survived alone.

The ship's food concentrates would

have been exhausted in a year or so.

By which time he would have been

eating fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

Probes of Thasus indicate

very little edible plant life.

And probes have been

known to be wrong.

Doctor, are you speaking

scientifically or emotionally?

I thought the character

McCoy played by D. Kelley

made that, as the fans

call it, the triumvirate,

because he was

the common man.

Certainly a brilliant doctor,

but he had all of the

irritations, frustrations,

the reactions that

most people would have.

I for one could use a good

non-reconstituted meal.

Doctor, you are a sensualist.

You bet your pointed ears I am.

[Simon Pegg] It's actually an

interesting sort of triumvirate

between Spock, Bones, and Kirk.

And for Kirk, Spock is his...

You know, they're like the devil and

the angel on his shoulder, really.

Spock is his intelligence,

and his logic, and his sense,

and you know, McCoy is more his

sort of slightly more emotional,

slightly more, you know,

knee-jerk kind of side.

The banter between McCoy

and Spock was, you know,

often some of the most

fun elements in the show

and indeed in the movies.

What's the matter, Spock?

There's something disquieting

about these creatures.

I don't know too much about

these little Tribbles yet,

but there is one thing

that I have discovered.

What is that, doctor?

I like them

better than I like you.

Doctor, they do indeed have

one redeeming characteristic.

What's that?

They do not talk too much.

When you have the kind of

cynical wit of McCoy,

and you have the swagger

and braggadocio of Kirk,

and then you have the intellect

and cold reason of Spock,

he's like the perfect human

being all Wrapped up in one.

[Announcer] The following program is

brought to you in living oolor on NBC.

[Adam Nimoy] That first

night of the premiere

we had to actually go

to some friends' house,

because they had a color TV,

a big console color TV.

We did not.

We had a big console

black and white.

Why don't you tell me

I'm an attractive young lady

or ask me if I've

ever been in love?

Tell rne how your planet Vulcan looks on

a lazy evening when the moon is full.

Vulcan has no moon, Miss Uhura.

I'm not surprised, Mr. Spock.

Dad in his costume,

Vulcan costume,

it was like,

"Wow, this is really cool."

I remember it was just such

an exciting night for us.

This is not Nancy.

If she were Nancy,

could she take this?

STOP it! Stop it, Spock!

Stop it!

[Captain Kirk]

Do you read?

Frequency open, Mr. Spock.

Spock here, Captain.

[chattering]

[laughing]

- Hi, Daddy.

-[laughing]

[Adam Nimoy] When I

came to visit the set--

They started shooting

that first season

at the end of May

and early June in 1966.

I was nine,

almost 'IO years old,

and I was off

for summer vacation.

And this is why Dad would

take me to work with him.

I would get up early

in the morning,

and we would drive to Desilu

right next to the Paramount lot,

and I'd be there all day.

So I went out to California, and

of course, Leonard took care of-

I stayed at Leonard's home.

And he said, "Guess what.

I've got this new show."

This is 1966.

I said, "What is it?" He said,

"it's called 'Star Trek."'

He said, "You've gotta come on

the set." I said, "Of course."

You know, I'm in the theater,

and this is my first

time in Hollywood.

And I'm out there,

and I walk on the set,

and I see Leonard.

He came out

from the dressing room,

and I see this hair.

I see these eyebrows

up to here.

And I see these ears on him,

and I said,

"Jeez, what is this?"

And he did a scene, and he

was terrific in the scene.

But I said... I got him to the side.

I couldn't believe it.

I said, "Leonard, Leonard, come here.

I've got talk to you."

I said, "No matter what you do, you've got to

get out of this as soon as you possibly oan.

This is a treadmill

to oblivion."

The review that

"Variety" gave us

when we first went on the air

in September of 1966.

[audience laughing]

And I thought you'd enjoy hearing what

our show business Bible said about us

the first Week

We went on the air.

This is dated September--

It appeared on September 14th, 1966,

just a little over 25 years ago.

It said, " 'Star Trek' with

William Shatner, Leonard Nomoid-"

[audience laughing

and applauding]

"'Star Trek' won't work."

[audience laughing]

That's the opening line.

Then it says, "An incredible

and dreary mess of confusion...

"trudged on for a long hour..."

-[laughs]

-[audience laughing]

"...with hardly any relief from

violence, killings, hypnotic stuff,

and a distasteful,

ugly monster."

[audience laughing]

-"William Shatner--" Shush!

-[audience laughing]

"William Shatner

appears wooden," it says.

[audience laughing]

[laughing]

I didn't say it.

It says it here, right?

[laughing] I never heard

him accused of being,

accused of being wooden

before, you know.

[audience laughing]

L. ll

[audience laughing]

" "

"I need warp speed in four

minutes, or we're all dead!"

[audience laughing]

Then it says, "The same

goes for Leonard Nimoy."

-[laughing]

-[audience laughing]

There are 50C) or 1 ,000 who could

play our characters effectively.

There's only one person

who could play Mr. Spock.

[Leonard Nimoy] Spock called for exactly

the kind of work I was prepared to do.

He was a character with a rich

and dynamic inner life,

half human, half Vulcan.

He was the embodiment

of the outsider,

like the immigrants who surrounded

rne in Boston in my early years.

How do you find your way

as the alien

in a foreign culture?

Keep your Vulcan hands off me.

Just keep away.

Your feelings might be hurt,

you green-blooded half breed.

May I say that I have not thoroughly

enjoyed serving with humans.

I find their illogio and foolish

emotions a oonstant irritant.

Then transfer out, freak.

Most everyone,

and there are exceptions,

but most everyone feels

a little bit like an outsider.

I would argue the most

interesting people seem to.

So, there's something

wonderfully comforting

and relatable to know that

Spock felt that Way himself.

I grew up as a skinny,

nerdy, gay kid in the south,

you know, in the 70's.

Not exactly

a comfortable existence.

There's a lot of

internal conflict.

So the character of Spock

from the very beginning...

And you know, when I was

five, I didn't know why,

or seven, I didn't know why,

but I was captivated

by this character that was

based on internal conflict.

Spock, I think people

recognize themselves in him.

He is, um, an outsider.

He is the alien.

I think everyone feels

like an outsider sometimes.

And since he's

a nonhuman outsider,

it's an otherness that everybody

can relate to in their own way.

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