"Best of Spock" Episodes
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So far I have watched The Naked Time, A Piece of the Action, and The Enterprise Incident to get an episode from each season with a wide variety of stories. APOTA may seem like an odd choice, but I wanted to see Leonard doing comedy, and Spock's line, "I'd advise ya's ta keep dailin'" to Oxmyx is priceless!
"Balance of Terror" may be a better episode, but I'd not lose the Spock/Kollos mind-meld scene in "Beauty".
I like the crazy in that episode.
I don't blame you. That's an amazing scene.
Is it wrong to admit I've never liked "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"? Everyone is so out of character in it, it's disturbing. This is the same optimistic series that claims, "...where I come from, size, shape, or color makes no difference..." but not in, "Is There In Truth". In that episode we get, "...you're going to yearn for someone who looks like yourself, someone who isn't ugly." And then there is that dinner scene where they all fawn all over Dr. Jones. When I think of bad season three episodes, this one is on the list.
Now in "Balance of Terror" Spock confronts a bigot head-on and saves the ship.
Neil
Now in "Balance of Terror" Spock confronts a bigot head-on and saves the ship.
Neil
Not at all. Is it wrong to admit that, given what Nimoy did with the mind-meld scene, I'm not a fan of striking the episode from this particular list?
The blatant and repeated use of the word "ugly" in that episode always bothered me.
Friends of mine were watching old episodes of Columbo and in one, Nimoy played a murderous, insidiously, complete asshole! Personally, I'd love to see a thread with more Nimoy than just in Trek ('cause, we've all seen 'em).
Ooooh, and I found a clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIaCMsyo_M
Ooooh, and I found a clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzIaCMsyo_M
MeTV showed that one Sunday as part of its tribute to Nimoy (after having just run it on-schedule a few weeks prior). You forgot to mention that his victim is none other than Anne Francis!
That scene, and the IDIC, are why it's on my list.
Not to mention that it's a fun episode.
For non-Trek Nimoy viewing we have watched The Outer Limits "I, Robot" which he had quite a good role in. "The Brain Eaters" where poor Lenny was obscured by fog and a Moses style wig and beard. A Bonanza episode written by Gene Coon, "The Ape", where he plays a sleazy card dealer. And of course Nimoy's big screen staring role of "Kid Monk Baroni" at the impossibly young age of 20. Monk would be his biggest role until a certain Vulcan came along twelve years later. Check it out!
"There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder"
Only Spock could say something like that!
Yes, yes, yes! My favorite Spock line!
Naaaww, Vulcans never lie, riiiiiiiight....
added "crawling":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPPIP0URNk
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Return to Tomorrow -----Henoch , about 3 billion kinds of Nimoy awesome
A small part I know but he was Konig in the Outer Limits episode Production and decay of small particles or summit like that! 
JB
JB
"There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder"
Only Spock could say something like that!
Yes, yes, yes! My favorite Spock line!
Naaaww, Vulcans never lie, riiiiiiiight....
added "crawling":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPPIP0URNk
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Return to Tomorrow -----Henoch , about 3 billion kinds of Nimoy awesome
I like it.
That was an outer limits episode entitled Production and Decay of Strange Particles.
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