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The Vulcan "salute" was devised by Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the half Vulcan character Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek television series. A 1968 New York Times interview described the gesture as a "double-fingered version of Churchill's victory sign". Nimoy said in that interview that he "decided that the Vulcans were a "hand-oriented ...
He is a fan of the science fiction series Star Trek, [150] as indicated by his consistent use of the Vulcan salute to signify his label name, Star Trak. [151] Williams is a skateboarder and has a half-pipe inside his home. [152] In 2011, Williams announced that he is building a $35 million after-school center in his home town, Virginia Beach. [153]
In those series, Colonel Jack O'Neill makes unsuccessful pitches to name new space vessels after the Enterprise, and also gives the Vulcan salute in tribute to Trek. In an earlier episode of Stargate: SG-1 , O'Neill travels back in time to the 1960s and during an interrogation by an Air Force officer he refers to himself as "James T. Kirk ...
Farrell said she leaned down to whisper to her son, "She said, 'John, salute.' He didn't respond at first. I took a deep breath. She said, 'John-John, salute.'" The three-year-old let go of his ...
The last time we saw Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård share a kiss onscreen, they were playing a married couple with serious emotional baggage in the Emmy-winning HBO drama, Big Little Lies ...
The fictional Vulcan homeworld, also named Vulcan, was visited several times in the Star Trek series and feature films. The inhabitants are known as "Vulcans" or "Vulcanians". First seen in the TOS episode "Amok Time", Vulcan, a Class M planet, is an arid world with a thinner atmosphere than Earth. Upon beaming down, McCoy states "'Hot as Vulcan.'
The movie tells the story of five Mexican American high schoolers — Joe Treviño, Gene Vasquez, Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas and Lupe Felan — who were caddies at a country club in Del Rio, Texas ...
Leonard Simon Nimoy was born on March 26, 1931, in an Irish [19] section of the West End [20] [21] of Boston, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine. [22] [23] [24] His parents left Iziaslav separately, his father first walking over the border into Poland while his mother and grandmother were smuggled out of the Soviet Union in a horse-drawn wagon by hiding under bales of hay.