Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor best known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, explains the Jewish story behind the hand-gesture he made famous through his role as Spock in the Star Trek science fiction series.
Spock, said Nimoy, was a “wandering Jew.” He explained that “I knew what it meant to be part of a minority, in some cases an outcast minority.” The only place where the half-Vulcan could feel accepted, he said, was the starship, because it was a “meritocracy.
Spock's theories were heavily influenced by Freud, which led to the publication of his bestselling book, the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care in 1946. Some of Spock's theories on child-rearing include: Children need to be hugged. Parents should let their children know they are loved and special.
The Vulcan discipline that defines the culture of stoicism and logic is a philosophy, not a religion. However, they do seem to be “religious” about it, because they regard it as the most important thing in their lives. They even have priest-like teachers and attendants who officiate in a temple-like building.
In the Star Trek: Vanguard novel Harbinger, the series' titular station has a non-denominational Christian chapel presided over by Father McKee (β), while the Pocket TNG novel Guises of the Mind portrays Catholicism as still being practiced by the 24th century.
Live Long and Prosper: The Jewish Story Behind Spock, Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Character
Do female Vulcans have Pon Farr?
Every seven years, Vulcan males and females experience an overpowering hormone imbalance known as pon farr. Once triggered, a Vulcan must have sexual intercourse with someone or the chemical imbalance may cause insanity, loss of self-control, and death.
A little digging shows that Vulcans are absolutely prissy when it comes to food and drink. First of all, alcohol reportedly has no effect on them (even though they do produce spirits on the planet Vulcan).
"If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Spock Died in Every Version of the Star Trek II Script
The filming of the first movie was a disaster, and so Nimoy wanted no more to do with Spock or Star Trek. Jack B. Sowards wrote his first draft for Wrath of Khan with Spock in the story -- and killed him at the end of the first act.
Spock needed to return to Vulcan to marry T'Pring, who he had been bethrothed to since childhood. However, T'Pring had other plans and, instead of going through with the wedding, she handpicked Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) as her champion to fight Spock in kal-if-fee - a fight to the death.
Leonard Nimoy, Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series, talks about his earliest exposure to Jewish religious education, sharing how his boredom in Hebrew school was offset by the excitement of his Bar Mitzvah service, which he was invited to perform a second time at ...
Uhura's first name was not used in Star Trek canon until Abrams's 2009 film. The mystery regarding Uhura's first name is the subject of a running joke in the film, as Captain Kirk repeatedly tries to find out what it is, before finally hearing Spock call her "Nyota" in a moment of intimacy.
What is Spock's blood type as a Vulcan? In the episode “Journey to Babel” it was established that his blood type is “T-Negative”. He had to give his father a blood transfusion. At one point there was a Star Trek fan magazine called “T-Negative” in honor of this fact.
As Spock's character becomes better understood, he repeatedly demonstrates how his autistic traits serve him well when 'saving' the day. Many perceive autistic traits in a negative way as rigid thinking, literal interpretation, tactlessness, non-conformity, and a disdain of aimless social interaction.
Series creator Bryan Fuller deliberately gave Martin-Green's character a traditionally male name, which he had done with the female leads (George, Jaye and Chuck) in three of his previous series. Martin-Green decided that the character was named after her father.
At the beginning of the third movie, we learn that Spock and Uhura decided to break up, after Spock mentioned his dilemma about going back to New Vulcan, getting married and helping to rebuild instead of going through his Starfleet carrier.
Her first name was adopted from the Swahili word "Uhuru" which meant freedom, and in many ways, her character exemplified that when appearing in the racially diverse show in 1966.
Sarek was married twice, and had two sons. Prior to his first marriage, he had a relationship with a Vulcan princess which produced Sarek's first son Sybok, a character not developed until the fifth feature film in the late 1980s. Sarek later married Amanda Grayson, a native of the planet Earth, with whom he had Spock.
Michael is about 4 years older than Spock, but curiously, Sybok was already gone when the young Burnham moved to Vulcan. Sybok is never mentioned in any of Michael and Spock's flashbacks to their childhood on Star Trek: Discovery, but was Burnham aware that Spock had an older half-brother?
