Do U think we will see spock or a other vulcan using the famous neck pinch in the movie?.
the neck pinch\vulcan nerve pinch
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No introductory reboot movie would be complete without it, I would think.
Rii
Rear Admiral
It could come right after that exchange in the trailer:
Spock: I will not allow you to lecture me!
Kirk: Then why don't you stop me?
[insert nerve pinch here]
That would probably be a little anticlimactic though, unless they change the nerve pinch to function like a biological taser, with Vulcans able to generate an electrical arc between their fingertips.
Spock: I will not allow you to lecture me!
Kirk: Then why don't you stop me?
[insert nerve pinch here]
That would probably be a little anticlimactic though, unless they change the nerve pinch to function like a biological taser, with Vulcans able to generate an electrical arc between their fingertips.
Na..... Non of the above. Hes just gana point his finger and open up their heads.
I hope not, I always hated the neck pinch. It would make sense if it was a specific way to knock a vulcan out, but why does it work on different species, why are (most of the time) only vulcans able to do it etc., the neck pinch is not sci-fi, it's fantasy ... stupid fantasy to be honest, they should forget it and never use it again.
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^^ They basically have "never used it again." Spock is the only Vulcan in all of Star Trek who ever used it with any regularity. Did Tuvoc or T'Pol ever use it?
^^ They basically have "never used it again." Spock is the only Vulcan in all of Star Trek who ever used it with any regularity. Did Tuvoc or T'Pol ever use it?
Well... Aliens functioning at space faring levels are pure fantasy. There's very little actual scientific theory of extra-terrestrial life forms existing above basic microbial levels. So the Vulcan nerve pinch is really no less fantastic then Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons.
Archer did it I think in ENT while he was carrying the katra of Surak.
And wasn't Data and Picard also able to do it ?
T'Pol uses the nerve pinch on Loomis in Carpenter Street. Tuvok performs it on a member of Species 8472 disguised as a human (In The Flesh). And there was Sakonna ...
Yes, Tuvok and T'Pol did use the neck pinch, as have some non-Vulcan Trek characters.
Of course, not everyone was successful at using it. Spock was unable to teach it to Kirk. McCoy tried it in TSFS. And, Chevy Chase's Spock was unable to use it on Elliot Gould on SNL.
Tuvok and Seven used it at least once on Voyager and a vulcan and Odo used it on DS9. Picard used it in Starship Mine, Archer used it once in Season 4 of Enterprise and I think Data could do it as well.
It's true that it wasn't used that often by othes than Spock, but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like it and don't want to see it in the new movie or any other Trek.
It's true that it wasn't used that often by othes than Spock, but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like it and don't want to see it in the new movie or any other Trek.
I think the neck pinch will be on a list of things that THIS MOVIE WILL HAVE.
Right after Dr McCoy stating "I'm a doctor not a [INSERT PLOT RELATED NOUN HERE]" and just before Scotty operating the transporter with three sliders.
Also, if Nimoy or Quinto do not say "fascinating" at any point in this movie, I'll eat my hat. Even if I'm not wearing one.
Right after Dr McCoy stating "I'm a doctor not a [INSERT PLOT RELATED NOUN HERE]" and just before Scotty operating the transporter with three sliders.
Also, if Nimoy or Quinto do not say "fascinating" at any point in this movie, I'll eat my hat. Even if I'm not wearing one.
I think the first instance of T'Pol using the nerve pinch was in "Shockwave, Part 2". I remember it being something of a woo-hoo moment around here at the time.
I don't remember the episode, but once in TOS Spock used the FSNP (Famous Spock Nerve Pinch) to down a foe, while Kirk fights another. Kirk says that he wishes he could do that. Spock says, "I have tried to teach you, Captain." I think it was in "The Omega Glory" when Kirk was in a jail cell with that big guy and spock was in the next cell....
Anyway, maybe the movie will have an homage to that...Spock trying to teach Kirk the FSNP.
Anyway, maybe the movie will have an homage to that...Spock trying to teach Kirk the FSNP.
Rii
Rear Admiral
See, that's the beauty of turning it into a Raiden-esque biological taser effect. It's not unheard of for species (such as electric rays) to use electricity to stun predators and prey, and it would explain why only Vulcans can do it and why it works on so many different species.
NuTrek: Bringing the Science.
Right, and the fact that there are thousands of bipedal species with their only variations being a few forehead ridges throughout the entire galaxy is somehow not "stupid fantasy"? Not that it matters; it was explained away in TNG why that is, so it's not surprising there's probably some nerve clusters that are shared amongst said species in the neck either.
There's no way the never pinch won't be in this film. It's one thing the general public associates with Star Trek.
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