Dr. Mulhall objects that life on Earth evolved independently, but Spock says the colonist idea would explain certain enigmas in Vulcan pre-history.

When Kirk plots an escape, he mentions the word " freedom " to Spock, and the Yang male suddenly objects to an " enemy " uttering a " Yang worship word.

* A way for Federation citizens to barter for objects that cannot be replicated, such as live animals, such as in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble with Tribbles ", or for services that are far too costly to be given away freely, such as hiring the services of an entire starship ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ), or for the use of facilities ( such as public transporters ) that are in high demand and must have a method of rationing their access, such as in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Explorers ".

" 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.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

However, the Tellarite was one of Garth's minions, and the neck pinch may have been a ruse to convince Kirk that Garth really was Spock.

The neck pinch itself ( referred to in scripts as ' FSNP ', or ' Famous Spock Neck Pinch ') was created by Leonard Nimoy, who objected to a scene in one early episode that required Spock to knock a guard unconscious by hitting him over the head.

Spock was one of three Starfleet officers from the 23rd century who travel in time to 1930s New York City, in the original series episode " The City on the Edge of Forever ".

His character of Spock had a significant cultural impact and garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations ; TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters.

As the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock — a role he chose instead of one on the soap opera Peyton Place — Nimoy became a star, and the press predicted that he would " have his choice of movies or television series.

" This choice led one reviewer to question if Fringes plot might be a homage to the Star Trek episode " Mirror, Mirror ", which featured an alternate reality " Mirror Universe " concept and an evil version of Spock distinguished by a goatee.

Fan reaction to leaked news that Spock would be killed was overwhelmingly negative, and one fan paid for trade-paper advertisements urging Paramount to abandon the plan.

UGO named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters.

Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998 ) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.

And though I've been denying the accusation for twenty-five years, one of the first questions I get from many reporters and interviewers is, " Doctor Spock, are you still permissive?

The Voyage Home was the first Star Trek film to extensively film on location — only one day was spent doing so in The Search for Spock.

Alan Morse came up with the name after a particularly wild party, where he remarked to his brother, Neal, " It's almost as if we were in an alternate universe, like that one episode of Star Trek where Spock had a beard ".

Spock, who had programmed the Enterprises computer to be unbeatable at the game, plays five matches with the computer and easily wins each one, proving the machine — the source of seemingly irrefutable evidence confirming Kirk's guilt — had been tampered with, thereby destroying its credibility in its account of the incident.

To discover the identity of the conspirators, Spock initiates a forced mind-meld, and learns that a group of Klingon, Starfleet, and Romulan officers plotted to sabotage the peace talks, and Chang is one of the conspirators.

In the standoff that follows, Kruge orders that one of the hostages on the surface be executed ; David is killed defending Saavik and Spock.

Nimoy found the most difficult scene to direct was one in which Leonard McCoy talks to the unconscious Spock in sickbay, en route to Vulcan.

He garnered 47, 097 votes ( including one from Hunter S. Thompson ) with fellow activist Mark Lane as his running mate in some states, David Frost in others, and Dr. Benjamin Spock in Virginia and Pennsylvania garnering more than the party he had left.

The very last scene was a quiet one between Kirk and Spock, where Spock treats his captain compassionately, telling him that " no other woman was ever offered the universe for love.

( David, in both the novel and final film versions of The Search for Spock, would subsequently be killed by Klingons ; in the novelization, Saavik's reaction to this is to attack one of the Klingons bare-handed, forcing the enemy to stun her into unconsciousness, but she remains calm in the film, simply telling Kirk his son has been killed.

When Spock and his new crew are captured by a monstrous worm-like race of aliens ( which Koenig described as " things that the monsters in Aliens evolved from "), the old crew must rescue them.

Spock comes to the same conclusion as Kirk: the ion storm must have opened a barrier between parallel universes, and the two landing parties have switched places.

Since the timeline must be repaired, the Guardian lets Kirk and Spock go after McCoy to fix the damage.

But in this version, Beckwith attempts to save Edith, and Spock must tackle and stop him.

Spock is imprisoned, while Kirk is taken to Kor's private chambers, where Kor expresses his admiration for Kirk, and his regret over what he must do in the interests of war.

For Picard however, the tone of the mission has changed — he must now inform Spock that his father has died.

Overview: Enterprise First Officer Spock must travel in time to his childhood and keep his younger self from dying and being replaced by an Andorian on his ship.

Realizing what must have happened, Spock knows he must go back through the time gate to his Vulcan childhood, and save the life of the child he was.

When the ship is crippled and Spock is kidnapped by a Vurian, an ancient and extinct race that died out during the time Zefram Cochrane completed test trials of the first Warp Drive, Kirk must go where no man has gone before to save his ship and his friend.

First Officer Spock believes that the two must have been taken to the mysterious planet below even though sensor readings indicate the planet's atmosphere is lethal to most forms of life.

This occurred, for example, in the plotline of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “ Whom Gods Destroy ” wherein Spock must choose between Kirk and an identical impostor ( Garth of Izar ).

After Spock discovers that the pilot's own as-yet-unborn son will play an important role in a future space mission to Saturn, Kirk must somehow return him to Earth without any knowledge of Enterprise or other future events.

Spock and McCoy must face off against Flavius and another gladiator, Achilles, under a set of studio lights, television cameras, and an obviously fake backdrop of a Roman combat arena.

M ' Benga informs Nurse Chapel that once Spock revives, she must do exactly as Spock tells her no matter how bizarre the request.

For example, the eleventh motion picture builds directly from and is supplemented by storylines that take place in two series of graphic novels and the audience must be aware of the events in those graphic novels to understand many elements of the story, including the conflict between Ambassador Spock and Nero ( which the film itself only superficially addresses ).

Hodin tries to stop Spock, but Spock warns him not to interfere since he has just disobeyed Starfleet orders and must now return to resolve the matter.

Pon farr, a situation introduced in " Amok Time " where Vulcans " must have sex or die ", is a device used in some stories such as " The Ring of Soshern ", a pre-1976 fan fiction where Kirk and Spock are marooned on an uncharted planet.