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Did The Beastie Boys Influence Star Trek's Mr. Spock?

Carpe Occasio

Fleet Captain
Fleet Captain
We see young Kirk punch up the 260-year-old Beastie Boys song "Sabotage" on his stepdad's 280-year Corvette as it's racing toward the cliff. If THAT Beastie Boys song exists in this universe, then so does the more appropriately titled "Intergalactic" (video below), which includes this line:

"If you try to knock me you'll get mocked / I'll stir fry you in my wok / Your knees'll start shaking and your fingers pop / Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock."

It's therefore logical that Mr. Spock himself may have come across that song—perhaps in his studies at Stafleet Academy—which could have given him the idea for that famous move.


http://scifiwire.com/2009/05/did-the-beastie-boys-infl.php
 
hmm, computer...
working....
complete historical database..
in play...
corrolate vulcan nerve pinch - any instances of use before Spock?
....
 
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