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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Trivia Question
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 17:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 17:09:02 1984
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Yes.  The gesture Martillo describes is done with both hands, held together.
Leonard Nimoy, who is Jewish, was familiar with it.  He felt that there
was a need for some visual thing to go with the words "Live long and prosper,"
seized upon this, and approached the director with it.  This was for the
episode "Amok Time," in which it first appeared.

Apparently not everyone is able to make this gesture easily.  (McCoy had
trouble.)  It was a matter of luck that Celia Lovsky (the actress playing
T'Pau) was able to do it.

Reference:  "The World of Star Trek," by David Gerrold.  I've seen the new
updated edition advertised as released in May, but haven't run across it
yet.  Trade size, by the way, at $7.95.
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	Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw