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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Spock
Message-ID: <150@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 04:33:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 04:33:59 1985
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> I don't know if Nimoy really demanded the death of Spock as a condition
> for acting in TWOK.  If that is really the case (I think he denits it)
> than perhaps I can excuse the TWOK story.  Otherwise, it's not much
> better than "Spock's Brain".

I seem to recall hearing someone on TV (Nimoy himself?) say that he would
only agree to do ST:TWOK if Spock were killed off.  Apparently Nimoy
really enjoyed the challenge of playing a dying Vulcan so much that
at the cast party at the opening of the movie, he approached Harve
Bennett and said, "So how are you going to bring me back?"  After
having expended so much effort to kill the character, Bennett was stunned.
Naturally he aceded...

I thought that ST:TWOK was one of the better stories; it certainly 
was able to address many more issues and themes than a regular
episode.  Perhaps you preferred ST:TMP which was written by the king
of the kiddie (goober) SF writers, Alan Dean Foster?
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					--rick heli
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