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 ).

Her pediatrician was Benjamin Spock early in his career.

The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

The difference was remarked upon in dialog between characters in " Trials and Tribble-ations ", an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when modern-era characters travel back in time to the days of Kirk and Spock ( and via then-brand new CGI techniques, appear within the TOS episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", frequently coming into contact with the Enterprise crew ).

Spock was voiced by Charlie Murphy ( brother of Eddie Murphy ).

This was also the first time humans saw what the Romulans looked like physically, and Spock surmised a common ancestry.

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.

Spock was dispatched to stop the supernova with a red matter device but arrived too late.

An adaptation of the song, named " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth ", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy ( Nimoy recites the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish upon an earth and so forth ).

In " The Paradise Syndrome "," the Enterprise attempts to save a pre-industrial planet by moving an asteroid that was on a collision course with it ; when McCoy asks Kirk if he should warn the people, Kirk and Spock only point out the people would not understand the warning, and neither makes any reference to the Prime Directive.

In the TOS episode " This Side of Paradise ", Leila Kalomi hints at having had a special relationship with Spock some six years earlier, though Spock's remark that he hoped his half-human blood would see him " spared " the agony of pon farr in the episode Amok Time suggests that their relationship was more casual.

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 ).

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock was unable to complete this ritual after receiving powerful telepathic signals from space and experiencing strong emotions as a result.

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

Many Vulcans are contact telepaths, and they have been observed taking part in a number of telepathy-related actions and rituals, including an instance where Commander Spock was telepathically aware of the simultaneous deaths of 400 other Vulcans on a faraway ship, the U. S. S.

In the TOS episode " Mirror, Mirror ," Spock of the Mirror Universe performed a forced mind meld on Dr. Leonard McCoy in order to learn what McCoy was keeping secret.

For example, in the TOS episode " A Taste of Armageddon ," Spock was once able to induce uncertainty in the mind of a prison guard on Eminiar VII, and in the episode " The Devil in the Dark ," he was able to perform a limited mind meld with a horta without actually making physical contact with the being.

Such was the case with Spock, who, near the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, implanted his katra into the mind of Dr. McCoy prior to sacrificing his life to save the USS Enterprise from Khan's attack.

Subsequently, Spock recovered, although it took some time to retrain his mind to where it was prior to his death.

It is not established whether females have the same option, and T ' Pring stated in " Amok Time " that a koon-ut-kal-if-fee challenge was the only way she could legally divorce Spock.

Leonard McCoy attempted to use the " neck pinch " while carrying Spock's katra in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, but was unsuccessful for reasons unknown.

" 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.

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.

Spock objects that one must have power ; Kirk informs him of the Tantalus Field, and Mirror-Spock agrees to consider the idea ( Marlena is presumably now on his side ).

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.