Theres Something About Spock

[A beaker full of death]

Now I'm sad.

 

[Kegek]

Gary7 said:
No... relatable to young adults that have grown up in an oversaturated computer graphics Internet connected world. I know plenty of people in their 30's that don't care for black & white and welcome colorized versions.

And I know plenty of people in their twenties who love numerous black and white films. Funny, I'm one of them. There's two sides to every argument.

I'm fine with TOS the way it is.

 

[Mallory]

Same here. I appreciate the fact that I'm getting to see TOS again every Saturday night at 10pm and it's kind of fun looking at the new FX, but I'm perfectly content with what we had before.

Star Trek was never about the effects or the props or the costuming or the sets.

 

[Miri9]

The updates in TOS are nice eye candy but nothing more. I think Spock is one of the most interesting characters ever created for television or even the movies. Our current world could sure use a few Spocks right now in key political roles...

 

[indranee]

umm he was hot? besides, he proved in every ep that old adage: smart is sexy.

yeah, baby.

 

[Alyssa]

^^^ need more be said?

 

[Ronald Held]

Does smart is sexy hold anymore?

 

[Outpost4]

Among nerd Trekkies it does.

 

[Alyssa]

hell yeah!

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

xortex said:And in By any other name he telepathically 'ordered' a guard to open up the force field through a wall!!

Didn't he repeat the feat in "A Taste of Armageddon"? At the very least he trumped it with the "multi-legged creature" jape

 

[xortex]

The Squire of Gothos said:

xortex said:And in By any other name he telepathically 'ordered' a guard to open up the force field through a wall!!

Didn't he repeat the feat in "A Taste of Armageddon"? At the very least he trumped it with the "multi-legged creature" jape

A lie ? I for one only think Vulcans can't lie only because it's a law on Vulcan. I think what he meant in courtmarshell was that he was incapable of lying in court and fooling the veryfying computer machine. See, there's an explaination for everything, sometimes.

 

[Ronald Held]

In general it is illogical to lie. There may be circumstances where lying would benefit the greater whole("the needs of the many...")

 

[Plissken]

The real question is: if there were no Kirk and no Bones, would Spock still be as cool?

I'd agree with what everyone has said, but I also think there is a dynamic there that gives each of the three characters more... more... more, something. They work as a sortof archetypical persona. I think that's the underlying attraction.

 

[Valin]

Plissken said:
The real question is: if there were no Kirk and no Bones, would Spock still be as cool?

No, he'd be grinning ear-to-ear every time he saw an alien plant.

 

[Ronald Held]

Then I would ask cool compared to who?

 

[Nebusj]

xortex said:
A lie ? I for one only think Vulcans can't lie only because it's a law on Vulcan. I think what he meant in courtmarshell was that he was incapable of lying in court and fooling the veryfying computer machine. See, there's an explaination for everything, sometimes.

Spock doesn't say anything about not being able to lie in ``Court-Martial'', which is probably for the best because every time it was emphasized on-screen how Vulcans could not lie, it was in the process of a Vulcan lying. The persistence of the idea that Vulcans never lie is only slightly more bizarre than the longevity of the idea that Spock was the first Vulcan in Star Fleet.

 

[xortex]

He said, I'm a Vulcan. I'm incapable of lying. I.e. IMO of fooling the computer but he did fool the mind scanner, didn't he.