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Nice pictures. Nimoy was so much older than me, but TOS-era Nimoy looks so young to me now. It's weird when you get older than your heroes.
Leonard practicing his chess game!
It must be after the shooting schedule for the season was over. His bangs are ragged and the sides of his eyebrows have grown back.
His ears have rounded, too!
I think it was GR who pulled a prank on Nimoy when he tried to convince him to have his ears pointed by a plastic surgeon, just for the production season. Afterwards the ears would be surgically restored to normal, according to GR’s tall tale. Nimoy fell for it because of the time and effort it took to apply the Vulcan ears, but then he saw the grin on GR’s face and he knew that he had been punked.
Leonard practicing his chess game!
I'll bet Leonard was teaching his kids Julie and Adam to play chess, in that middle photo.
I read this and it suddenly popped into my head that (as far as I recall, at least) that the only time we ever actually saw Kirk and Spock playing chess was in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'. I always assumed that chess was a pastime of theirs, with Kirk being at least being able to beat him. Now I'm wondering if that's just my imagination that's remembering it that way.
Was it, in fact, ever alluded to again?
Was it, in fact, ever alluded to again?
They were playing chess in "Charlie X" also.
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x02/charliex097.jpg
http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=23&page=5
He plays alone in Court Martial, and with the Kelvin leader in By Any Other Name.
This is non-canon, "Memory Beta" stuff, but there was a short story in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 where Kirk and Spock set up a running chess game in the little access space between their quarters. The author was obviously following the Franz Joseph Blueprints to set the scene. Kirk and Spock installed a pop-in bulkhead to close off the space between their two lavatories and make it a private room:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_New_Voyages_2
This was 1978, and FJ was still considered near-canon. And it's chess-related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_New_Voyages_2
This was 1978, and FJ was still considered near-canon. And it's chess-related.
"Your game is off." I love that line because it implies that they've been playing for a while, giving the episode some extra heft as the problem of the week evidently isn't solved in an hour or two.
This is non-canon, "Memory Beta" stuff, but there was a short story in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 where Kirk and Spock set up a running chess game in the little access space between their quarters. The author was obviously following the Franz Joseph Blueprints to set the scene. Kirk and Spock installed a pop-in bulkhead to close off the space between their two lavatories and make it a private room:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_New_Voyages_2
This was 1978, and FJ was still considered near-canon. And it's chess-related.
That is . . . absolutely fantastic. Which NV2 story is it?
It was "Surprise!" by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, with an introduction by Nichelle Nichols.
Thanks!
And considering that it was Marshak and Culbreath, I'm sure they didn't think that chess was the only thing going on in that private room...
And considering that it was Marshak and Culbreath, I'm sure they didn't think that chess was the only thing going on in that private room...
Well, to be clear, it was women's fiction, and the Seventies were a very sexualized decade in the Women's Movement (as opposed to today's opposite emphasis, which enforces asexual, un-gendered rules of etiquette). And I haven't read it since I was a teenager, but I know it wasn't "slash" fiction that made Kirk and Spock gay. Nothing along those lines.
When I was a kid, we considered it common knowledge that Spock was smarter than Kirk and a formidable chess player, but that Kirk tended to beat him because Kirk played illogically in a way Spock couldn't process with his logical mind. Which now makes no sense to me whatsoever, because if you play chess illogically, your opponent should stomp you.
Probably between them, though, I bet.
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