Well now with how discovery is going id say that statement is more accurate, too bad really discovery had lots of potential but bad writing has really crippled the shows progress
Leonard Nimoy was gifted, creative, artistic, thoughtful and highly intelligent. He would probably have become an equally great success in any other field of endeavor aside from acting. I'm glad he stuck with acting and the stars aligned (sorry, couldn't help it!) to give him a chance at making his imprint on the world as Mr. Spock. The world is a better place for it.
In the original episode for which the neck pinch was developed, the phaser was to be used on Spock's beloved Captain Kirk, who was out of his head and was pointing a phaser set to kill at someone else. Spock wouldn't have wanted to stun his captain, particularly since it might have caused Kirk's hand to tighten and pull the trigger. Nimoy said in an interview that when he got the idea for the neck pinch, he asked William Shatner to help him sell it, and the two of them rehearsed it. Nimoy said it was Shatner's performance in throwing his head back with a shocked expression then dropping to the floor that sold the idea to the director. Nimoy also created the famous Vulcan salute which accompanies the words "Live long and prosper". (Theodore Sturgeon wrote the words.)
That first part is a little off. Kirk was split in two. His evil half was pointing his phaser at the other half. When Spock neck pinches him, "Evil" Kirk fires his phaser and damages part of the ship.
I was born in 1978 but grew up with reruns of Star Trek. Knew it well. After I saw Keaton's Batman in '89 I consumed anything comic book that pertained to my interests. Star Trek launched a wonderful TOS line. I collected hundreds of comics until I moved on and life went on. But one of my favorite moments was early in the run where an intergalactic assassin sent to kill Kirk named Sweeny captures them and turns out not to be a formidable warrior but a refined, precise, Englishman-style killer. Tea and all. A stealthy assassin. Anyway, early on he proves to be immune, in a dramatic moment, to the Vulcan neck pinch. And they capture Spock and Kirk. Later, Spock does the pinch again, and Sweeny, smiling about Vulcan predictability, mocks Spock as he turns to say something and Spock punches him dead in the face. I thought that was fucking amazing. And in the end, good Vulcan strategy (even if Spock himself would say it was an uncivilized action.). A fun, comic book memory. I haven't looked at that comic in a decade, or read that whole story in maybe three, but I still remember Spock decking Sweeny.
Nimoy is also responsible for the Vulcan V shaped hand used when saying "love long and prosper" which he explained he borrowed from a Jewish religious ceremony.
"A show that has no future."? LOL wow, considering the franchise, I think it did pretty well. I also think Gene Roddenberry would've been pissed off at that statement. It took a lot just to pitch the series to a studio let alone find a network to air it, which was ultimately NBC. But even then, before the pilot could even air, Star Trek was at risk of being canceled straight out. And of course all it took was one woman to nod her head in a meeting deciding the fate of the show. She nodded her head and Star Trek began its mission. As a Trekkie myself, I say "Thank you Gene Roddenberry for writing Star Trek and thank you Lucille Ball for giving it a chance.". 😎👍
This is pure gold! As I watch this I see why Star Trek IV was arguably the most popular of the Star Trek Films as he directed III and IV. And I don't care what anybody says. Kirk stealing the Enterprise is one of the greatest scenes in all of the movies.
Neat way to explain one of the more iconic things of Star Trek that even I remember and I haven't seen a single episode of Star Trek in over 20 years..my mom was a fan of it though..and Star Wars too.
One Saturday-Morning, ln 72, My Daddy caused my Mommy to faint, While she was rambling-on, Like a, Major, Chatterbox. Although, lt was hilarious, l thought, lt was Extremely-Romantic.
I always imagine an SNL spoof of Star Trek in the style of the 60s Batman TV show. During fights scenes, while everybody else is punching people with splash screens like ‘Pow’ and ‘Bam’, Spock’s will just be ‘Pinch!!!’
He said the show had been cancelled, I wonder if this was after the second season, when fans got the cancellation reversed, or sometime after the third?
@Odysseus Rex ... The video summary says that the interview in this video was filmed in 1969. The original Star Trek series ran from September 1966 to June 1969, so the interview was filmed after 3rd season when the series was cancelled.
There was only a "Vulcan nerve pinch" but never a "Vulcan death grip" even in the TOS series - that was a ruse used by Spock to fool the Romulans into thinking Kirk was dead in "The Enterprise Incident", TOS S03 E02. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find a real-life "death grip", look no further than your mortgage lender; I know it means "pledge to the death", but in my mind - taking a little creative liberty here - the etymological root of the word "mortgage" is "mort-" = "death" and "-gage" = "pledge". "Live long and prosper" - yeah, right - uh-huh.
There’s another video here on UA-cam where he explains the Vulcan nerve pinch too. First introduced in Episode 4: The Enemy Within. When the producers and writers would see that film in their dailies he said when it went to the scene of Spock doing that for the first time in the show they would say “Whoa, ha ha look at that!”, you know. I figure when viewers at home would see the episode for the first time when it first aired on television, they’d say the same thing too about that scene.
James Coburn did it first in "Our man Flint", a big box office hit cca 6 months before "The Enemy Within" began it's production. I wouldn't be surprised if Nimoy & Co. were inspired by Flint's Nerve Pinch: ua-cam.com/video/fJgRrYq08qQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HeinekenEst1873
@@patrickwilson1459 You can also ask how come Roddenberry never explained some of very obvious huge influences in creation of Star Trek, such as the novel "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" by A. E. van Vogt, or, for example, an old The Twilight Zone episode "People Are Alike All Over" from 1960 with the plot similar to "The Cage" pilot. Furthermore, it stars Susan Oliver (Vina) as Teenya, who meets the main protagonist in very similar fashion as Vina meets Pike & co. Paul Comi from TOS also appears, some of the props are from "The Forbidden Planet" and it ends with: "... and he will remain here, in his CAGE...". (this is somewhat shortened version from youtube) ua-cam.com/video/7EvezTiXadM/v-deo.html
Star trek and comics and other stuff actually keeps you busy and curious and makes you an alpha male as you don't concentrate on girls. Atleast this works for me 😂😊
God we're going to miss This guy. He did more than just Star Trek.But a lot of people don't know that and you gotta see some of the other stuff.It's pretty cool
How much more wrong can a person be than the guy at the beginning of the video saying that Star Trek had no future because it was cancelled... lol. The Vulcan neck pinch actually has some real basis that I wonder if Nimoy was aware off? There is a nerve that runs along the area that he pinches, and is a martial arts pressure point. Apply enough pressure on it and your adversary is not going to be to happy about it.... extremely painful.
SPOCK! STOP PUNCHING KHAN IN THE FACE EVEN THOUGH HE'S ALREADY UNCONSCIOUS! STOP HITTING HIM WITH BOTH HANDS! LOOK SPOCK, UHURA IS SCREAMING AT YOU TO STOP!
A show that has no future... And yet, here we are!
Well now with how discovery is going id say that statement is more accurate, too bad really discovery had lots of potential but bad writing has really crippled the shows progress
I believe the humorous allegory is "on them."
Wow, pretty sure Vulcans would be radically different if Nimoy hadn't intervened and came up with the idea for the nerve pinch.
He is also behind the🖖.
Leonard Nimoy was gifted, creative, artistic, thoughtful and highly intelligent. He would probably have become an equally great success in any other field of endeavor aside from acting. I'm glad he stuck with acting and the stars aligned (sorry, couldn't help it!) to give him a chance at making his imprint on the world as Mr. Spock. The world is a better place for it.
Super cool explanation of the origins of the famous “Spock Nerve Pinch”..long live and prosper Leonard Nimoy...
My response to the female interviewer: LET'S GO BRANDON
In the original episode for which the neck pinch was developed, the phaser was to be used on Spock's beloved Captain Kirk, who was out of his head and was pointing a phaser set to kill at someone else. Spock wouldn't have wanted to stun his captain, particularly since it might have caused Kirk's hand to tighten and pull the trigger.
Nimoy said in an interview that when he got the idea for the neck pinch, he asked William Shatner to help him sell it, and the two of them rehearsed it. Nimoy said it was Shatner's performance in throwing his head back with a shocked expression then dropping to the floor that sold the idea to the director.
Nimoy also created the famous Vulcan salute which accompanies the words "Live long and prosper". (Theodore Sturgeon wrote the words.)
That first part is a little off. Kirk was split in two. His evil half was pointing his phaser at the other half. When Spock neck pinches him, "Evil" Kirk fires his phaser and damages part of the ship.
RIP Leonard Nimoy, he was ahead of his time, what a legend
I was born in 1978 but grew up with reruns of Star Trek. Knew it well. After I saw Keaton's Batman in '89 I consumed anything comic book that pertained to my interests. Star Trek launched a wonderful TOS line. I collected hundreds of comics until I moved on and life went on. But one of my favorite moments was early in the run where an intergalactic assassin sent to kill Kirk named Sweeny captures them and turns out not to be a formidable warrior but a refined, precise, Englishman-style killer. Tea and all. A stealthy assassin. Anyway, early on he proves to be immune, in a dramatic moment, to the Vulcan neck pinch. And they capture Spock and Kirk. Later, Spock does the pinch again, and Sweeny, smiling about Vulcan predictability, mocks Spock as he turns to say something and Spock punches him dead in the face. I thought that was fucking amazing. And in the end, good Vulcan strategy (even if Spock himself would say it was an uncivilized action.). A fun, comic book memory. I haven't looked at that comic in a decade, or read that whole story in maybe three, but I still remember Spock decking Sweeny.
I tried the Vulcan nerve pinch on someone once. If done correctly it will give extreme discomfort to the person but will not knock out a person.
Leonard Nimoy was an attractive guy when he was young.
The Benedict Cumberbatch of his day.
Nimoy is also responsible for the Vulcan V shaped hand used when saying "love long and prosper" which he explained he borrowed from a Jewish religious ceremony.
"A show that has no future."? LOL wow, considering the franchise, I think it did pretty well. I also think Gene Roddenberry would've been pissed off at that statement. It took a lot just to pitch the series to a studio let alone find a network to air it, which was ultimately NBC. But even then, before the pilot could even air, Star Trek was at risk of being canceled straight out. And of course all it took was one woman to nod her head in a meeting deciding the fate of the show. She nodded her head and Star Trek began its mission. As a Trekkie myself, I say "Thank you Gene Roddenberry for writing Star Trek and thank you Lucille Ball for giving it a chance.". 😎👍
He sure is Cute 😍
I like how he uses words like Phaser and Vulcan
You can still hear Spock and his voice and words...
The origin of the Vulcan neck pinch! However you get it to work - work it! Live long and prosper!
It's awesome how much Nimoy came up with that ended up becoming iconic to not only Spock but also Vulcans.
This is pure gold! As I watch this I see why Star Trek IV was arguably the most popular of the Star Trek Films as he directed III and IV. And I don't care what anybody says. Kirk stealing the Enterprise is one of the greatest scenes in all of the movies.
"a series that has no future".....
Neat way to explain one of the more iconic things of Star Trek that even I remember and I haven't seen a single episode of Star Trek in over 20 years..my mom was a fan of it though..and Star Wars too.
An actor who is an intellect? They sure don't make them like they used to these days...
One Saturday-Morning, ln 72, My Daddy caused my Mommy to faint, While she was rambling-on, Like a, Major, Chatterbox. Although, lt was hilarious, l thought, lt was Extremely-Romantic.
A lesser known technique, of course, was the Vulcan Dick Pinch... which had a very different result.
Is it just me, or did she start sizing him up when he said that aliens may have hitherto unknown knowledge of the human anatomy?
Well, she was David Frum's mother!
“A show that has no future”
:)
I always imagine an SNL spoof of Star Trek in the style of the 60s Batman TV show.
During fights scenes, while everybody else is punching people with splash screens like ‘Pow’ and ‘Bam’, Spock’s will just be ‘Pinch!!!’
He said the show had been cancelled, I wonder if this was after the second season, when fans got the cancellation reversed, or sometime after the third?
@Odysseus Rex ... The video summary says that the interview in this video was filmed in 1969. The original Star Trek series ran from September 1966 to June 1969, so the interview was filmed after 3rd season when the series was cancelled.
@@crichter1724 Ah ha, thanks.
There was only a "Vulcan nerve pinch" but never a "Vulcan death grip" even in the TOS series - that was a ruse used by Spock to fool the Romulans into thinking Kirk was dead in "The Enterprise Incident", TOS S03 E02. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find a real-life "death grip", look no further than your mortgage lender; I know it means "pledge to the death", but in my mind - taking a little creative liberty here - the etymological root of the word "mortgage" is "mort-" = "death" and "-gage" = "pledge". "Live long and prosper" - yeah, right - uh-huh.
Nemoy created a lot of aspects about Vulcans. The V hand is apparently a part of a Jewish prayer Rabbi use.
There’s another video here on UA-cam where he explains the Vulcan nerve pinch too. First introduced in Episode 4: The Enemy Within. When the producers and writers would see that film in their dailies he said when it went to the scene of Spock doing that for the first time in the show they would say “Whoa, ha ha look at that!”, you know. I figure when viewers at home would see the episode for the first time when it first aired on television, they’d say the same thing too about that scene.
James Coburn did it first in "Our man Flint", a big box office hit cca 6 months before "The Enemy Within" began it's production. I wouldn't be surprised if Nimoy & Co. were inspired by Flint's Nerve Pinch: ua-cam.com/video/fJgRrYq08qQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HeinekenEst1873
@@starikomp9497 Then how come Nimoy never explained that?
@@patrickwilson1459 You can also ask how come Roddenberry never explained some of very obvious huge influences in creation of Star Trek, such as the novel "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" by A. E. van Vogt, or, for example, an old The Twilight Zone episode "People Are Alike All Over" from 1960 with the plot similar to "The Cage" pilot. Furthermore, it stars Susan Oliver (Vina) as Teenya, who meets the main protagonist in very similar fashion as Vina meets Pike & co. Paul Comi from TOS also appears, some of the props are from "The Forbidden Planet" and it ends with: "... and he will remain here, in his CAGE...".
(this is somewhat shortened version from youtube)
ua-cam.com/video/7EvezTiXadM/v-deo.html
RIP Leonard Nimoy
Huh, Spock must have broken the temporal prime directive to come back to the 60s in order ensure the Trek timeline continued
Nimoy also came up with live long and prosper with the Vulcan hand Vsign
Star trek and comics and other stuff actually keeps you busy and curious and makes you an alpha male as you don't concentrate on girls. Atleast this works for me 😂😊
God we're going to miss This guy. He did more than just Star Trek.But a lot of people don't know that and you gotta see some of the other stuff.It's pretty cool
“Has no future.” Yet no one knows what crew sanctioned this article
How much more wrong can a person be than the guy at the beginning of the video saying that Star Trek had no future because it was cancelled... lol.
The Vulcan neck pinch actually has some real basis that I wonder if Nimoy was aware off? There is a nerve that runs along the area that he pinches, and is a martial arts pressure point. Apply enough pressure on it and your adversary is not going to be to happy about it.... extremely painful.
WOW! I wonder what year this was? This is black & white.
What a brilliant man he was!
2:06 - 2:39... a shot at baby Michael Bay lol
We had great fun with it!
The interviewer is Barbara Frum, conservative commentator David Frum's mother.
One of the brilliant products of the show. How many scripts used that element of the show through TOS and all the related future projects?
This sounds like the setup to a Norm MacDonald joke
This seems older than 2 years ago
Yes it was recorded in 1969
He literally has 0 default
-4:20
SPOCK! STOP PUNCHING KHAN IN THE FACE EVEN THOUGH HE'S ALREADY UNCONSCIOUS! STOP HITTING HIM WITH BOTH HANDS! LOOK SPOCK, UHURA IS SCREAMING AT YOU TO STOP!
Star Trek was canceled, lol, fuckin nuts. Also, Spock was my grandmothers favorite...she even had Spock dolls
The reaction of the various victims to the neck pinch was interesting, yet inconsistent 🤪
I loved the Vulcan death grip 😬