For the Love of Spock Page #4

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had a different captain,

Jeff Hunter.

The only actor

that stayed over

was Leonard Nimoy.

[Leonard Nimoy]

And then, I had a shock.

I opened up my mail, and here

was a, here was a pamphlet

from the NBC Sales

and Promotion Department.

And it was a pamphlet

about "Star Trek,"

this new series that was

going to be on the air

coming in the fall,

I saw this photograph

of myself as Spock,

and it didn't look right.

Something struck me as strange.

And the closer I looked,

the more I realized that

they had straightened out my

eyebrows, made them look normal,

and they had taken off

the tips off the ears.

The network said,

"We are very dependent on

the numbers in the Bible Belt,

"and they will not accept

in their homes a character

who looks devilish

with these pointed ears."

Are you casting me

in the role of Satan?

Not at all, Captain.

Is there anyone on this ship

who even remotely...

looks like Satan?

I am not aware of anyone who

fits that description, Captain.

No, Mr. Spock,

I didn't think you Were.

Dr. Dehner feels

he isn't that dangerous.

What makes you right, and a

trained psychiatrist wrong?

Because she feels. I don't.

All I know is logic.

In my opinion, we'd be lucky if we can

repair this ship and get away in time.

One of the reasons for the shift

in the Spock character

when you came on-board

was because when I was

working with Jeffrey Hunter-

Jeffrey Hunter was

a very internalized actor.

Very fine actor.

This was his style of work.

There's an old joke about two

actors preparing to play a soene.

And one says to the other, "What are

you going to play in this scene?"

And the one says,

"I'm playing nothing."

The other one says,

"No, no, no,

-you can't play nothing. I'm

playing nothing." -[laughing]

So here's Jeffrey Hunter playing this

quiet, internalized performance,

[William Shatner]

Ah!

[Leonard Nimoy] And I felt the need to

help drive something in opposition to it.

[William Shatner] Right, right.

-[Leonard Nimoy] Otherwise, we're both

playing nothing. -[Shatner] Right.

[Leonard Nimoy] And when you

came on-board with your energy,

and a sense of humor,

and a twinkle in the eye,

I was able to then become

the cooler Spock.

Has it occurred to you that

there's a certain... inefficiency

in constantly questioning rne on things

you've already made up your mind about?

It gives me emotional security.

Leonard bouncing off of rne could

now dramatically be internal

allowing me to be external,

and the two forces made

an interesting combination.

I prefer the concrete,

the graspable, the provable.

You'd make a splendid computer,

Mr. Spock.

That is very kind

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