Tag: Leonard Nimoy
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Looking To Up Its Body Count In Season 4
For many years, death in “Star Trek” was a permanent event. To cite a notable example: when Captain Kirk’s brother Sam (William Shatner) was killed in the episode “Operation — Annihilate!”, he was dead forever. There wasn’t a storyline later in the series wherein Sam was cloned or resurrected somehow. In 2023, the tune on death…
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Voyager’s Roxann Dawson Had A Chance To Direct Star Trek But Dropped It For Another Show
“Star Trek” has a long and proud history of having its star actors make the leap to the other side of the camera and flourish as directors in their own right. None other than Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, took the reins on both “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” and its follow-up, “The Voyage…
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Gene Roddenberry Originally Had No Interest In One Of Star Trek’s Most Famous Characters
The world changed a lot in the 20 years that “Star Trek” was off-air. The Cold War was all but over when “The Next Generation” began airing in 1987. So, it made sense to reimagine the Klingons, who during “The Original Series” had been the Ussr stand-ins to the Federation’s America. Mark A. Altman and…
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How A Touch Of Jealousy Led To Tyler Perry’s Unexpected Star Trek Casting
If you watched J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of the “Star Trek” motion picture franchise — and considering that the film made almost $400 million, earned rave reviews, won an Academy Award for Best Makeup, and helped spawn a “Star Trek” renaissance that persists to this day through multiple acclaimed TV shows, there’s a decent chance…
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Leonard Nimoy Was Ready To Quit Star Trek Before He’d Even Finished His First Episode
If you had to make a list of the top five people born to play an iconic character, there’s a good chance that Leonard Nimoy would make that list. The actor brought Spock to life on “Star Trek” in a way that was uniquely his own. Tall, angular, and with an insane amount of presence,…
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A Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Extra Only Got The Part Because Production Towed Her Car
Layla Sarakalo has exactly one (1) credit on her IMDb page. In Leonard Nimoy’s 1986 film “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” she played a passer-by on the street who stopped briefly to talk to Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), who sought the location of nuclear vessels parked in Alameda, California.…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Is T’Pring’s ‘Redemption Arc’
Classic “Star Trek” episode “The Amok Time” delved the most into Vulcan culture of any of the series’ 79 installments. In the episode, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) had to return home to wed T’Pring (Arlene Martel), his betrothed since they were both age seven.T’Pring isn’t an especially sympathetic character in “The Amok Time.” The implication is…
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‘Strange New Worlds’ Season 2 Opens Up a New Side to Spock
My mind to your mind. My thoughts to your thoughts. For generations, audiences haven’t been able to get enough of Star Trek‘s masterpiece, Mr. Spock. With a literal nature and an iconic eyebrow raise, this half-Vulcan and half-Human has us hooked. First with Leonard Nimoy in the Original Series and now with Ethan Peck taking…