A popular t-shirt and bumper sticker slogan for Trekkies, seen as early as 1967, was I grok Spock ( often showing the Star Trek character using the Vulcan salute ).

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

Changing the character to be " a man with very human emotions " also allowed for the development of the Spock character.

In the 2009 film Star Trek, screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci focused their story on Kirk and Spock in the movie's alternative timeline while attempting to preserve key character traits from the previous depictions.

Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Treks Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), in that the character offers an " outsider's " perspective on humanity.

As a result, the character of Christine Chapel was created for Barrett and the " coldness " was transferred to the Spock character.

In 1965, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot, " The Cage ", and would go on to play the character of Mr. Spock until 1969, followed by seven feature films and guest slots in various sequels.

Nimoy's fame as Spock is such that both his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock ( 1975 ) and I Am Spock ( 1995 ) detail his existence as being shared between the character and himself.

He went on to reprise the Spock character in Star Trek: The Animated Series and two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

He had a central role in Brave New World, a 1998 TV-movie version of Aldous Huxley's novel where he played a character reminiscent of Spock in his philosophical balancing of unpredictable human qualities with the need for control.

In April 2010, Leonard Nimoy announced that he was retiring from playing the signature character of Star Trek's Spock, citing both his advanced age and the desire to give Zachary Quinto the opportunity to enjoy full media attention with the Spock character.

The first was called I Am Not Spock ( 1977 ) and was controversial, as many fans incorrectly assumed that Nimoy was distancing himself from the Spock character.

It also related to an apparent love / hate relationship with the character of Spock and the Trek franchise.

The second volume, I Am Spock ( 1995 ), saw Nimoy communicating that he finally realized his years of portraying the Spock character had led to a much greater identification between the fictional character and himself.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

He respected each of these approach techniques, and kept them in character: his quill drawings had a scratchiness, suggesting skin texture ; ;

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

If the character flying that thing had gone over San Clemente Island yesterday he would have had an eyeful.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Bistability can be modified to be more robust and to tolerate significant changes in concentrations of reactants, while still maintaining its " switch-like " character.

It clearly contains material written at different stages in Clausewitz's intellectual evolution, producing some significant contradictions between different sections, and the sequence and precise character of that evolution is a source of much debate.

Nevertheless, Gregory VII ’ s dramatization of the issue produced a significant improvement in the character of men raised to the episcopacy.

Flockhart's character was significant throughout the series ' first four years, but her appearances were reduced for the 2010 – 2011 season, coinciding with the departure of TV husband Rob Lowe.

Despite this legal status, the ELDR party has yet to achieve significant grassroots involvement and retains much of the character of a mere confederation of national political parties.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

The discursive nature of his writing, together with significant plot and character complexity and an abundance of detail suggests a baroque writing style, which Stephenson brought fully to bear in the three-volume Baroque Cycle.

As he speaks with the character, Periplectomenus, he uses a significant amount of alliteration in order to assert his cleverness and, therefore, his authority.

According to C. Stace, " slaves in Plautus account for almost twice as much monologue as any other character ... this is a significant statistic ; most of the monologues being, as they are, for purposes of humor, moralizing, or exposition of some kind, we can now begin to see the true nature of the slave's importance.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress tells of a war of independence waged by the Lunar penal colonies, with significant comments from a major character, Professor La Paz, regarding the threat posed by government to individual freedom.

Also, the demographic audience for science fiction has changed from mostly male to a significant female presence demanding more human elements and stronger female character representation.

One of the most significant, common signaling character of the event is that a prototype of professional chemotaxis receptors, formyl peptide receptor ( 60. 000 receptor / cell ) as well as the activator ability of its ligand formyl Met-Leu-Phe have been demonstrated in the surface membrane even in the case of human sperms.

He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel, including co-creating Spider-Man, who would become the company's flagship character.

Leatherface has gained a reputation as a significant character in the horror genre, responsible for establishing the use of conventional tools as murder weapons and the image of a large, silent killer devoid of personality.

It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel.

Actions, persons, and images in this dream-world or even in the external world may become so intensely significant and metaphorically representative that they take on the character of symbols, myths, and allegories.

She gained more significant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed Family Life, which cast her as the volatile teenage step-daughter of Sami Frey's central character.

Spaces are not significant anywhere other than within character constants.

The most significant difference from the original play concerned the character of Young Lucius, who is a much more important figure in the adaptation ; he is present throughout Act 1, and retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.

An influential character in the film is the beatnik poet, who convinces the group to accept the busboy as a significant artist.

Very little else of Homer's character was based on him, and to prove that the meaning behind Homer's name was not significant, Groening later named his own son Homer.