Comments on: Leonard Nimoy Talks About His Return To Spock + Reveals Scene Detail

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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:14:42 +0000

[...] Leonard Nimoy talks about being Spock one more time, and gives a spoiler as to his scene. [...]

By: Johnny Ice

Johnny Ice — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:56:02 +0000

I’ll bet there are lots of young kinds (i.e. people under 35) who think that it was V’ger that interrupted Mr. Spock’s ability to finish the Kohlinar……”
What is your explanation? If i ain’t mistaken Spock explained it pretty well to Kirk and McCoy in captain office that during Kohlinar ritual, Spock began sensing a consciousness more powerful that he have ever encountered. Thought pattern of exactingly perfect order. Spock believe they emanate from the INTRUDER aka Vger.
So Vger incident according to Spock did have a influence(along with his human part) why Spock failed the Kohlinar ritual.

By: Gav

Gav — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:03:50 +0000

Hard to beleive Nimoy is so complacent about having a new timeline take over and everything he worked on for 40 years being rendered invalid

I would hardly call 40 years of rich sci-fi lore “Minutae”. Continuity is sacrosanct. It is the very backbone of what good stories are made of. You can’t just flush four decades of the greatest science fiction saga history will ever know down the crapper because youre too lazy to bother yourself to do some research.

If new fans are too stupid to respect canon, the screw them. It was our selfless devotion to Roddneberry’s noble vision of mankind that made Star Trek the pop culture icon what it is today. And now Paramount is throwing all of us under the bus to appeal to the noseringed, Red Bull drinking, crooked baseball cap wearing lowest common denominator audience. We were here first and the fans should always be honored and respected first and foremost

That which foresakes old fans for new ones deserves neither.

By: MC1 Doug

MC1 Doug — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:42:45 +0000

#83: So, we know one thing: Spock doesn’t die in this movie. Not if Nimoy’s open to a reprise.”

Do we now? I don’t think we know that at all. We know that the two Spocks meet, but we could see an elder Spock die, perhaps remembering his premise “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… or the one.”

It seems to me it would be a fitting way for Nimoy’s Spock to pass off the torch to “these kids.”

Course, I don’t know this any more than do the rest of us in here (and me just playing devl’s advocate– mind you, I do not relish the thought of a death scene played by the elder Spock).

By: SaphronGirl

SaphronGirl — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:45:03 +0000

//“…Specifically, I’ll bet there are lots of young kinds (i.e. people under 35) who think that it was V’ger that interrupted Mr. Spock’s ability to finish the Kohlinar……”//

If I remember correctly, the novelization by Gene Roddenberry states that it is because his mind is too troubled by his feelings of emotion for Jim.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:33:08 +0000

Christiney needs to go to Hollywood Video and grab a “SciFi Now” off the stand. NOW.

I have this very unhealthy obsession with Nimoy.. Heh. ♥

“…Specifically, I’ll bet there are lots of young kinds (i.e. people under 35) who think that it was V’ger that interrupted Mr. Spock’s ability to finish the Kohlinar……”

I’m not one of those. ;3 This 16-year-old thinks he didn’t finish the Kohlinar because it just plain wasn’t right for him, because he’s so incredibly beyond that…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:06:11 +0000

I agree with the previous commenters who’ve said that the basic elements for a very good movie are present in ST:TMP. However, the basic plotting was hurt by the decision to take two characters whom the audience didn’t know from the proposed Phase II television series — Decker and Ilia — and make them central to a one-off movie. It was impossible to cover sufficent ground with the original characters, introduce and develop two new characters who, with the exception of the Kirk/Decker rivalry, were given no strong connections to the original crew, and do a 2001-like special effects bonanza, all in 2-hours. Decker’s sacrifice at the end carries only a little more punch than a redshirt death, because we’ve just met the character and have no sense of any connections he’s leaving behind.

Also, the set-up was rendered very poorly. Specifically, I’ll bet there are lots of young kinds (i.e. people under 35) who think that it was V’ger that interrupted Mr. Spock’s ability to finish the Kohlinar…

By: SaphronGirl

SaphronGirl — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:28:19 +0000

What if in the new film’s timeline, Spock choses to a live as a human instead of a Vulcan? It would explain why he’s choking Kirk in that scene from the trailer…

By: navamske

navamske — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:51:43 +0000

“For his part, it had been 17 years since he last played the character Spock (in the two-part ‘Unification’ episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation), and that was factored into his performance.”

What I hope this alludes to is the final scene from “Unification Part II,” which marks a significant event in Spock’s life. I quote from the last paragraph (which I wrote, actually) of the Memory Alpha synopsis of that episode:

“As Picard and Spock discuss their gently adversarial relationship, Spock comments that Picard may know Sarek ‘better than his own son did. My father and I never chose to meld.’ On hearing this, Picard says, ‘I offer you the chance to touch what he [Sarek] shared with me.’ As Data watches, Spock places his hand on Picard’s face and makes contact with the essence of Sarek that remains in Picard’s mind, and Picard thus fulfills the request that Sarek made: Spock’s face is suffused with emotion as he realizes the depth of his father’s love for him.”

By: BuckeyeTrek

BuckeyeTrek — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:11:57 +0000

I don’t care what anyone says, this movie looks awesome!I don’t care if it is “reboot” or “non-canon”. Trek deserves to continue “boldly going”. So, regardless of how this changes canon, if it keeps the essence of trek and keeps trek in its rightful place among the greatest stories of all time, I will be for it. That said, if this movie sucks, we might just have throw JJ out the airlock (no offense).