For the Love of Spock Page #3

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in any television show

or movie, never. Two weeks.

Mr. Spock here.

We're intercepting...

I didn't have a cool look

in mind at first.

I had this jagged haircut

and bushy eyebrows,

and We went through

a struggle with the ears.

The studio had contracted

with a company

to do special effects

for the show.

Not film special effects,

but items like

suits for creatures,

creature outfits,

and that kind of thing.

And included in the

contract was the ears.

They were supposed

to do the ears.

Now, they were very good

at creating creatures,

and we used them throughout the

series, this particular company.

But they were not

really specialists

in the very fine, delicate

kind of appliance work

that's necessary to add something

to a person's features

and make it really look like

it's part of that person.

We came right down within about three

or four days of shooting the series,

and I said to Gene Roddenberry,

"This is not going to work, and maybe

we'd just better forget about the ears."

Well, he insisted he wanted the

ears to be part of the character.

And he said, "You try it, and let's

work it out. Let's solve the problem.

"And at the end of 13 shows if

you're not satisfied with the ears,

I'll write a script where Spock

gets an ear job." [chuckles]

So we went ahead

and worked on the problem,

and Fred Phillips, who was

the actual makeup man

who was going to do my makeup

each day on the series,

knew what the problem was.

And a couple of days

before we started shooting,

he called in

an appliance specialist,

and we very quickly went to him.

Got the ears done

in about 24 hours.

And they were ready, and they were

perfect, and that solved the problem.

[Adam Nimoy]

Freddie Phillips always said

that Leonard Nimoy

reported for work at 6:30 a.m.,

and Mr. Spock could always be counted

on to arrive somewhere around 7:15.

Definitely something out there,

Captain, headed this way.

Our tests indicate

the planet's surface

without considerably more

vegetation or some animals,

simply too barren

to support life.

[Gene Roddenberry] The first

time, it did not sell.

But, uh, NBC...

NBC thought it was too "cerebral"

was the term they used.

The network found the first pilot

too "cerebral," they said.

Not a straight

lined story enough.

And unusual in that they

decided to try a second pilot.

[Leonard Nimoy]

NBC told Gene to fire

almost the entire cast,

including me.

Well, Gene felt very strongly that the bulk

of the character that I was to portray,

that every time I was on screen

you'd be reminded

that we have a mixed crew.

So he stuck to his guns

fortunately for me.

The original pilot even

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