| spurgeonryan said: I also read " I am spock". If you remember though, in the 70's I think, he wrote a book named, " I am not Spock". The whole point of the book " I am Spock" and the movie " Mindmeld, where he is interviewed by Shatner, is that Spock is Nimoy's career. It is what has supported his family. Forget his music and directing. So it is only logical that he would come back to Star Trek again and again. Star Trek made them all! Even the new character have struggled beyond Star Trek. Chris Pine had that spy movie and a few other smaller hits. McCoy had "Dredd" and a few other movies. Spock had American Horror Story. Then there is those two british actors. Star Trek made these people. Not many break free. Nimoy understands this and will be spock till he is dead. Fringe will be the only exception. |
The title of the book "I Am Not Spock" was originally a joke that came out of an incident at an airport where a woman introduced Leonard Nimoy to her daughter as "Spock". Nimoy had no idea that the playful title would be taken literally by the masses who thought the book was a rejection on Nimoy's part of the celebrity of the character in which he was portraying. Years later, he wrote "I Am Spock" to clear up the misunderstanding and convey just how much he actually embraced the fictional character as part of his life. To the point where he would articulate conversations in his mind that would take place with one side of the conversation coming from Spock's perspective. I understand why Leonard Nimoy would agree to be in a Star Trek film. He appeared in two episodes of The Next Generation reprising his Spock role, "Unification" parts 1 & 2. My issue is with the fact that his role in the reboot was a complete contradiction of what he said in "I Am Spock". And, his first appearance in the film, when Kirk gets stranded on that planet and attacked by that monster, a robed figure appears with a hood over his head waving the creature away. Watch the first Star Wars film "A New Hope" and tell me that's not a rip-off of Luke Skywalker's first meeting with Ben Kenobi. Why was J. J. Abrams ripping off Star Wars, when the Star Trek franchise is actually older by over a decade? Because J. J. Abrams admitted to never having ever watched a single episode of Star Trek in his life. Clearly, he saw Star Wars though.
