This incredibly cool picture of Leonard Nimoy dressed as Spock is apparently from 1966. If you happen to have more specific info on it, please feel free to post in the comments.
Tomorrow, my dad and I are planning to go see the new Star Trek. I can’t wait.
Spock’s Ride
The Vulcan Salute has Jewish Origins
Leonard Nimoy explains how he drew on his Jewish heritage when creating the Vulcan Salute.
From Laughing Squid:
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom takes a look at the Jewish origins of Spock’s Vulcan salute which debuted in the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”.
“The Vulcan greeting is based upon a blessing gesture used by the kohanim (koe-hah-NEEM) during the worship service. The kohanim are the genealogical descendants of the Jewish priests who served in the Jerusalem Temple.”
Rabbi Gershom runs the website TrekJews.com and has written a book on “Jewish Themes in Star Trek”.
Visit Laughing Squid for more info and some interesting links on the topic.
Barack Spock
From Maureen Dowd’s Friday Op-Ed:
Commanding his own unwieldy starship of blended species, with Cheney, Limbaugh and other pitiless Borg aliens firing phasers from all sides, Mr. Obama has certainly invoked Mr. Spock’s Vulcan philosophy of “Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.”
Yeah…
Wired guest edited by J.J. Abrams
The latest issue of Wired was guest edited by J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost, the new Star Trek and lest we forget, Felicity. As anyone familiar with Lost and its trapezoidal storylines might guess, there was a bit more than meets the eye in the special issue.
From the New York Times:
Mr. Bevacqua wrote on his blog, he spent the next several days following the hidden clues he believed he’d found, using Morse code, alternative computer keyboard layouts and even electrician’s wiring codes to solve the covert brainteasers. Finally he was directed to a hidden Web site, from which he sent an e-mail message to a secret account. A short while later he learned that he was the first Wired reader to solve an extensive hidden puzzle embedded throughout the magazine.
Thanks to J. J. Abrams, Wired Becomes a Magazine With a Buried Puzzle – NYTimes.com.
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