Spock (Leonard Nimoy)

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Sorry Dave ...thats all there was ...but its not new news to me I have heard rumors of this before.

If I find anything else I'll let you know and post it here

[Dave]

From the spoilers that I've seen on ST:X 'Nemesis', which is set on Romulus and it's sister planet Remus, Spock does not appear, and is not mentioned.

Since we last saw him as a Federation Ambassador working undercover for Romulan-Vulcan reunification on Romulus in 'Unification, Part II' TNG, the question arises, where has he gone?

[Highlander II]

good question ---

maybe ST:X will lead up to something that will bring Spock into a potential ST:XI film??

[Dave]

Nimoy won't be taking part in any movies, and reveals how he came up with the famed Vulcan salute.

TREKTODAY - Original Series star Leonard Nimoy (Spock) recently said he has retired from the movie business.

"It feels very good," Nimoy told Salon.com. But the actor was keen to stress he has fond memories of working on films. "When I was a kid starting out, I did my first movie work when I was 19, 20 years old. I lived in Boston and left home when I was about 18 to go to California to be an actor. The first work that I did - I thought it was the most exciting and romantic thing that a person could possibly do.

"I'd get up before dawn when it was still dark and drive to the studio at 5 in the morning - 'Report to work at 5:30.' 'I'll be there!' - It was so great," Nimoy continued. "Cup of coffee in the car. Drive to the studio gates. Give 'em your name and they open the gates. Spend a day being part of moviemaking. Drive home in the dark. God, it was so great."

The actor explained that his circumstances are now very different. "We have a life now. We can choose by weather. [...] We can be there for kids and grandchildren's experiences, and then leave and say, 'We're going to New York for a week.' Or Lake Tahoe for the summer. Or we're going to Europe because we want to go and this is the best time to go, not because this is when the picture is being shot, but because we want to be there. We want to do certain things there, not go into a studio or out in the woods somewhere at five o'clock in the morning to shoot a scene. I had enough of it. I had 60 years of it."

Nimoy also related how he came up with the familiar Vulcan salute. "We were shooting a scene of Spock going back to his home planet of Vulcan for the first time. This was the first time we saw Vulcan on the series. We had never seen any other Vulcans before. I was very much attuned to the thought that I should be watching for opportunities to add something to the Vulcan culture, to the Vulcan story," he explained. Nimoy first saw the Jewish symbol performed when he was a child.

"So I said to the director, 'There should be some special thing that Vulcans do.' He didn't quite get it at first. I said, 'Well, humans shake hands with each other. Asian people bow to each other. Military people salute. What do Vulcans do?' He said, 'Well, OK. What do Vulcans do?'

"I said, 'How about this?' And she did it in response. And that's how we did it. It's as simple as that. But it resonated very quickly. Within days after that show airing, I started getting people doing this [gesture] to me on the street. Still do."

[Dave]

Ananova:

from Ananova

'Spock' publishes book of fat bottomed girls

Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy is publishing a book featuring naked fat bottomed girls.

The women, members of the cabaret troupe The Fat Bottom Revue, are photographed in similar poses to models used by acclaimed erotic fashion photographers Herb Ritts and Helmut Newton, reports the New York Post.

Nimoy, who played Spock in the hit sci-fi series said: "The women are interested in fat liberation. Their self-esteem is strong.

"They will tell you that too many people suffer because the body they live in is not the body you find in the fashion magazines."

Nimoy, 73, previously caused controversy in the US when in 2003 a book of his photographs, Shekhina, featured photos of women wearing nothing but ritual Jewish prayer items.

Why does so much Art today need to shock or be voyeristic?

I'm thinking of the works of Tracey Emin and Damien Hurst, and also of the picture of Moria Hindley made out of children's handprints. Maybe these are very beautiful women, I haven't seen them, but his earlier photos with the ritual Jewish prayer items was certainly designed to gain him notoriety.

[dragonlover32]

Originally Posted by Dave

I also missed out some stuff about Spock's name:

He apparently has a first name. He told Leila Kalomi (This Side of Paradise) that "you couldn't pronounce it".

He also has another family name. Amanda tells Kirk (Journey to Babel) that she can pronounce it only after many years of practise.

I happen to know Spock's first name. It is...Xtmprszntwfld. It is pronounced: "EX-temper-FULLD".