Why does Nimoy look YOUNGER in this movie?

[Awesome Possum]

Any aging issues with Spock the character can be explained at least in part by his half-human DNA and lineage. Chronologically, Spock was only 62 or 63 years old in THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY but looked a bit older and much more haggard...especially when you consider that Tuvok on VOYAGER was 109 years old at the time of the 24th century events in "Flashback" but looked closer to thirty or forty. Tuvok was a full-blooded Vulcan(so far as anyone ever knew) while Spock wasn't. Hence he aged more like a Terran than most Vulcans.

Except that the rate of aging was inconsistent, and seemed to parallel Sarek's aging process. Both of them seemed to age 20 human years between TOS and the later movies, then they didn't age at all until TNG. In the years since TNG Spock appears to have aged at a much quicker rate again. I guess Sarek had some genetic abnormalities. I can only guess that with Sarek it's better explained that he's just a generation older than Spock so his aging isn't quite as pronounced, though I'd think his disease would have aged him quite a bit. Also, I think that for Spock diplomacy must have seemed far less stressful than his career in Starfleet or his attempts at unification on Romulus.

Maybe he was secretly a smoker, I heard that ages you.

 

[Eric Cheung]

Then he must have quit after Khitomer and started again once he got to Romulus, hands shaking holding one of those Rura Penthe clove looking things Kirk had and saying, before taking a nervous drag, "Jesus uniting two worlds is harder than it used to be!"

 

[Guartho]

Spock also has Genesis device proto-matter hand-waving to fall back on as an excuse for any and all aging abnormalities that appear after Star Trek III.

 

[datas_cat_spot]

He could also be somewhat disguised either for his mission or from being on Romulus or something.

 

[RobertScorpio]

He finally lost his virginity!!! GO UHURA!!!!

Rob

 

[superstring01]

No, we're talking about Leonard Nimoy appearing at the end of the new version of the trailer as Old Spock.

Where is this different version of the trailer?

~String

 

[Dick Whitman]

Nimoy is much thinner than he was back in the days of ST VI and Unification.

 

[JuanBolio]

He looks the oldest I've ever seen him. Last time was on the Shatner roast.

 

[T J]

Then he must have quit after Khitomer and started again once he got to Romulus, hands shaking holding one of those Rura Penthe clove looking things Kirk had and saying, before taking a nervous drag, "Jesus uniting two worlds is harder than it used to be!"

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

 

[M'Sharak]

No, we're talking about Leonard Nimoy appearing at the end of the new version of the trailer as Old Spock.

Where is this different version of the trailer?

~String

Look here.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

As I recall, Nimoy was sick during the filming of "Unification," which is why his voice was off (he sounded more like John Huston than normal) and he looked tired. How one feels is a big part of how they look to others.

 

[Roshi]

No RAMA, it's not Nimoy, it's Zachary Quinto!


It fooled me too, initially!

 

[Franklin]

Nimoy has always looked older than his years to me. Even back in TOS and before that. He's one of those types who was probably born looking 40.

So no, Nimoy certainly doesn't look younger to me in this movie. That's him. At 76. And wearing very little makeup, it seems. That's him. One more time. Being iconic.

 

[Classic Fan]

Yeah, he looks a little older than he was, thats because he is.



He looks great though, granted under makeup etc, but he looks great.

And the grey hair is kind of reminiscent of Mark Lenards Sarek, as if its gone full circle. To quote Superman; The son becomes the father, and the father becomes the son.


Shatner looks great in the trailer by the way, hes lost all that weight aswel.

 

[Listener]

I don't know.
When I first saw it, I thought,"Wow, he's getting old." And I thought his enunciation seemed just a bit slurred.
But after reading that he was aged for the part, I felt a lot better.

 

[Carbon Unit]

I dunno, he looks plenty old to me. Looks good, though

 

[Eric Cheung]

I don't know.
When I first saw it, I thought,"Wow, he's getting old." And I thought his enunciation seemed just a bit slurred.
But after reading that he was aged for the part, I felt a lot better.

He's always had sort of a speech impediment in which hard sounds come out a little soft for him. For example, he tends to pronounce his hard Ts as a sort of soft Th sound. Similarly, in "Live long and prosper" the "prosper" would be a little softer sounding than it might be for some people.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I don't think he looks younger. I think he looks a hell of a lot more enthusiastic about this project than he did about appearing on TNG.

 

[TK421]

I think he looks more relaxed, is all.

 

[Listener]

Similarly, in "Live long and prosper" the "prosper" would be a little softer sounding than it might be for some people.

That's what I was hearing. A bit of a "sh" in prosper, that I hadn't noticed before.