The phrase also appears in the 2009 reboot, in which McCoy ( Karl Urban ) says " I'm a doctor, not a physicist " to Spock.

Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, the Enterprise then appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ), before being destroyed in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ).

First portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series, Spock also appears in the animated Star Trek series, two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, seven of the Star Trek feature films, and numerous Star Trek books, comics, and video games.

Nimoy, in addition to his directing duties, appears towards the end of the film as Spock, but only appears in the opening credits as the director.

A character representing a physical re-creation of the " historical Surak " in his youthful maturity — fashioned by advanced alien technology from telepathically-recorded recollections and expectations held by Mr. Spock, appears in the original Star Trek series episode " The Savage Curtain ", and is portrayed by the actor Barry Atwater.

However, if Saavik's mixed ancestry were to be made canon, it would violate the continuity created by the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " Balance of Terror " ( which takes place after Saavik's birth ) in which Starfleet learns for the first time that Romulans resemble Vulcans, a fact that appears to be unknown to Vulcans ( or at least the extremely knowledgeable Mr. Spock ) as well.

Introduced in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Bird of Prey has featured in five of the films and frequently appears in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.

Kirk and Spock analyze the body of the knight and find out it is not human but similar to the plant life around them and appears to be " manufactured.

As Spock performs repairs on the shuttle, the Companion appears, and observes what Spock is doing.

" When The Companion appears Spock activates his device.

Kirk has Spock scan a dark ominous form that appears on the main view screen.

More reports of Kirk's " ghost " come in from around the ship and Spock tries to lock a tractor beam on him when he appears again.

In " Unification ", the Romulan Senator Pardek shared a friendship with Ambassador Spock lasting at least 80 years.

In the film's prologue ( set 19 years after the events of Unification, and as depicted in the graphic novel Star Trek: Countdown ), Ambassador Spock ( Nimoy ) promises the Romulans he will use Vulcan technology to save them from a rogue supernova that threatens to destroy their Empire.

The new society would come to be known as the Romulan Star Empire — where Surak's philosophy of peace and logic survives only as an underground movement within their emotional, warlike society for the next 2, 000 years ( until further shepherded, in the Star Trek Next Generation episode " Unification ", by the elderly Ambassador Spock in the role of a latter-day successor to Surak ), while flourishing on Vulcan to become its predominant philosophy.

" Unification " is the title of a two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fifth season, which features Leonard Nimoy as Spock.

In the two-part episode " Unification ", she coordinated a plan to invade the Vulcan homeworld using a holographic falsification of Ambassador Spock describing the Romulan convoy as being peaceful in character.

On the topic of Spock's future, Nimoy notes that the Star Trek franchise shows no sign of dying, and that as far as he is concerned, Spock is still alive and well working on Romulus ( as seen in the two-part episode " Unification " of Star Trek: The Next Generation ).

Spock himself had switched to an all-plant diet in 1991, after a series of illnesses that left him weak and unable to walk unaided.

With the looming 25th anniversary of the original series in 1991, producer Harve Bennett revisited an idea Ralph Winter had for the fourth film: a prequel featuring young versions of Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy.

She appeared again in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 ), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), with another promotion, as Lieutenant ( JG ) Janice Rand.

Lenard did eventually appear as Sarek in supporting roles in three Star Trek feature films: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ); Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 ); and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ).

A popular use of the expression came in the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, where " only Nixon could go to China " is quoted by Spock as " an ancient Vulcan proverb ".

Other stars of the franchise chimed in, with Leonard Nimoy ( who played Spock ) offering his support in a 1991 letter to the Los Angeles Times:

" In Season 2, Episode 1 (" Amok Time ", 1967 ), Captain Kirk tells Spock, " As one of Finagle's Laws puts it: ' Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine.

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

Circa stardate 44995. 3 ( December 28, 2367 ), the Vulcan Ambassador Spock was discovered on Romulus, working with an underground movement for the reunification of the divided races.

Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan, Gene Roddenberry ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ) ( refit ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) ( refit )

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 his mate was not available on the Genesis planet ( where Spock underwent the two pon farr periods ), it was implied that he mated with Lt. Saavik, a female Vulcan scientist on the crew of the Enterprise who showed compassion in guiding him through the accelerated pon farr ( in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, a deleted scene was intended to confirm the implication ( i. e., that Saavik bore Spock's child ); its removal from the film, however, struck it from ' official ' Trek canon ).

Some Vulcans, such as T ' Pol, Sarek ( in his later years, due to a rare disease which can affect Vulcans over the age of 200 years ), and Soval, carry their emotions close to the surface, and are prone to emotional outbursts, even without outside influences or illness ; T ' Pau certainly displayed restrained but definite emotions in the TOS episode " Amok Time ", including suspicion of the Human visitors followed by admiration and approval of their friendship for Spock, and contempt for Spock's humanity.

Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series ( 1966 – 1969 ), and in multiple film, television, and video-game sequels.

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.

At the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ), Spock is no longer in Starfleet, having resigned and returned home to pursue the Vulcan discipline of Kolinahr.

The sequel, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ), focuses on his crewmates ' quest to recover Spock's body, resurrected by the Genesis matrix in the previous film.

Spock is next seen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 ), which depicts his recovery from the after-effects of his resurrection.

In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ( 1989 ), Spock and the Enterprise crew confront the renegade Sybok, Spock's half-brother.

The mission is only partially successful, and in the aftermath Spock is pursued into the past by Nero ( Eric Bana ), a Romulan driven mad by the loss of his homeworld and family, setting into motion the events of the film.

In the initial, rejected pilot, " The Cage " ( 1964 ), Spock is greenish yellow and from the planet Vulcan.

At the age of 84, Spock came in 3rd ( out of a field of 8 ), rowing his dingy across the Sir Frances Drake Channel between Tortola and Norman Island, a distance of four miles.

The footage from the original pilot was subsequently adapted into the later series in a two-part episode entitled " The Menagerie ," despite continuity differences in the way Leonard Nimoy portrayed Mr. Spock due to alterations in the character's appearance and personality between filming the first pilot and the eventual series.