Vulcan

...newly-discovered letter from the cult TV show's creator. In the letter, Gene Roddenberry, who died aged 70 in 1991, wrote that he gave the pointy-eared Vulcan a "look of the devil". And he believed that his looks would be "particularly...

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...unlike the human characters who let emotions cloud their judgment. He was physically strong and possessed a lethal "Vulcan nerve pinch" that incapacitated enemies. In the letter from 1973 Roddenberry refers to Spock as "Spoke" and...

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...Solar System in the 1964 spin-off The Dalek Book. In 1966 Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry gave the name of Mr. Spock's homeworld and race as Vulcan , but placed it in another star system. Some fictional tie-ins, including Lance Parkin's A...

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...once joked that, given the choice between keeping Mr Spock (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, Roddenberry "kept the Vulcan and married the woman [because] he didn't think Leonard [Nimoy] would have it the other way...

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...a crowded marketplace. What it's about: Capt. James T. Kirk, his half-Vulcan compatriot Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise begin their intergalactic adventures with a confrontation with a war-hungry Romulan. Why you'll see it: This...

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...the Klingons as the Soviet Union and the Romulans as the communist Chinese. Vulcans such as Spock inhabit an Earth-like planet and live by logic, not emotion. Warp drive is the handy, faster-than-light propulsion system used by the...

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It shows how the Enterprise crew came together to avert the Romulan threat and, more importantly, how Captain Kirk, the incorrigible young rebel, and Spock, the conflicted half-human, half-Vulcan genius, forged their lifelong friendship.

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...Gene Roddenberry series. After a 19-year absence from the franchise, the 78-year-old Nimoy was also convinced appearances by the old and the young half-Vulcan, half-human Enterprise officer would work on screen. Previously, Nimoy rejected...

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...their appearances and the composition of their costumes. Fred Phillips , the original designer of Spock's Vulcan ears, served as The Motion Picture''s makeup artist. He and his staff were responsible for fifty masks and makeup for...

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