Spock and uhura should not be a couple home facebook. The character was portrayed by nichelle nichols through the sixth star trek film. Its rise and shine, not rise and gleam, uhura mumbled under the duvet. For uhura, once again, spock loved her on his own will. Published by pocket books, the novel was first released in hardback in december 1994. See more ideas about spock, star trek and star trek spock.
Its glaringly obvious that spock and uhura are having sex, have been in a relationship for some time, and are very serious about each other. No copyright infringement intended just a small video compiling my favourite spock moments. A simple story about spock and uhura during the birth of their first child and introducing the little one to their friends and family. The two women exchanged forbidden songs and promised never to reveal their secret. Look, im just saying that, if anyone could get spock to play a harp to a tune about how he looks like a devil in disguise, its uhura. Part of the film makers lack of wanting some quiet moments between characters in favour of action, action, action, was the lack of realism and appropriateness as far as the spockuhura. My apology my wife tarla approached as well and stood in front of uhura, looking down at her. Spock uhura isnt terribly common in the tos fandom, although there are certainly fans of the pairing. Collecting the top 5 best spock moments from the 2009 star trek movie. One, unmelting in the cold, had made its way down to rest on his glossy black hair.
While on duty aboard the enterprise, spock and uhura maintained a formal professional relationship spock usually addressing her by her rank and surname with the exception of some moments where the nature of their feelings for one another was displayed or hinted by their actions. First appeared in the tos het ezine recreation room 1. Nichelle nichols was born grace nichols on december 28, 1932 in robbins, illinois. See more ideas about spock, star trek and star trek into darkness. It brings out some interesting things about the couple, and thats why im posting it here.
Spock looked at the captain as if he had announced that space was a vacuum. Jan 19, 2015 explore lulu389s board spock and uhura. Spock s mixed humanvulcan heritage serves as an important plot element in many of the characters appearances. Spock spends years searching for love when he had it all along. The pocket tos book ishmael gives spock s full name as schn tgai spock. The novelization features spock, mccoy, uhura, and chekov in scenes set in the prologue in 2293. The 64page hardcover is a prime directive primer, written by robb pearlman, that sends kirk, spock, mccoy and the rest of the original series crew, along with klingons, khan, romulans, andorians and the gorn, through. Three years later, theres an emergency that puts the cadets on ships. Kirk is the signature character of the star trek franchise. As she stepped forward, she realised it was not a padd, but a real book, compact and dense and dark with age. The original series, the crucible chronicles devote one book each to the shows biggest stars. Spock chapel was one sided, in the words of david gerrold one of the writers chapel was created to love spock but not get loved on return by him check chapels page over memory alpha.
Star trek beyond should let uhura be the badass character. Abrams star trek films differs from spock originated by leonard nimoy. A place for those who contest that spock and uhura from star trek xi do not work as a couple and should break up asap. If abrams put spock with chapel, we wouldnt even entertain the possibility of spock choosing uhura. All vulcans are basically flame in a way so it isnt hard for spock to believe that maybe his soulmate is tpring. Uhura was the only one who could play the vulcan lyre and the only one who had the audacity to sing a song teasing spock. Jun 10, 2009 i love spock and uhura but unfortunately we only saw glimpses of them together on the original series.
I need everyone to continue performing admirably, he says. He told him that she was all of the warmth in the world. The story line broadens the characters of uhura and chekov, allows delightful spock insights, and introduces new characters that grab attention in all the right ways. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
In 2016, radio times ranked the kiss between uhura and kirk as the 25th best moment in all star trek, including later spinoff series made later. The original series book 21 kindle edition by kagan, janet. Spock starts things off with the fire and the rose. The undiscovered country, and since she is still aliveeightyone years old in 20her book. Gaila dragged the bed covering from her friend and room mate.
Funny spock lines and moments from season 2 duration. Mattel celebrated the franchises 30th anniversary in 1996 by releasing barbie and ken in original series uniforms, and teamed with paramount in 2009 for dolls modeled after chris pines kirk, zachary quintos spock and zoe saldanas uhura from the movie reboot. Having the strict vulcan looking over her shoulder seemed like the worst thing that could happen, until they crashlanded on an uncharted planetoid. As far as what we already know from history, the story was kirk uhura was what was written in the script but after concerns from nbc executives, they thought to change the kiss to spock uhura but william shatner insisted they keep with what was written.
Then, get ready to beam up fun with kirk and spock, a fun with dick and jane parody book due out july 29 from cider mill press. The top 10 uhura moments from star trek star trek women. Spock zachary quinto and uhura zoe saldana the moment. I created a relationship between uhura and spock as being her mentor and the person she looked up to. The novelization of star trek generations is an adaptation of star trek generations, written by j. I still think that was wrong what they did in the film. While spock and uhura are living on new vulcan and scotty is a lecturer at starfleet academy on earth, sulu, mccoy and kirk are still serving out amongst the stars.
There would be no polls, no controversial threads, and no questions asked. The vulcan finds himself displaced in time, stuck in a single moment where lives are simultaneously destroyed and created. Ive never heard of such a romantic line and i never expected one like spock to say such a wonderful thing. I cant believe that so many people like star trek, but cant handle uhura being the romantic lead. Uhura and spock get to live out a real relationship rather than a forced kiss thanks to j.
She wondered briefly as she saw the vulcan characters spread out on the page whether he was reeducating himself in the. Spockuhura isnt terribly common in the tos fandom, although there are certainly fans of the pairing. I wouldnt want the subtle elegance of spock uhura tarnished which doesnt mean i dont think we should see them in private moments. Uhura was not just comforting her good friend in that scene. Uhura turned to spock and saw that his hood was already attracting its fair share of snowflakes. Spock is the deuteragonist of the science fiction film series star trek. The cultural impact of the kiss was noted by national geographic, in 2016. Jul 19, 2016 forget the fact that uhura had decoded messages in multiple languages just moments before the movie needed to get the babe naked, so it did just that. Wildcat is one of the best known tosera spockuhura writers, wellregarded for her epic su series. Jul 25, 2016 saldana believed that uhura would feel that she was holding back spock whose goals had changed since the loss of vulcan in star trek 2009. Actually, spock and uhura is a couple that roddenberry too had originally wanted to explore but racism in. Earth date january 2256, starfleet academy halls of residence, san francisco rise and gleam, nyota, rise and gleam. Jan 7, 2018 star trek het pairing commander spock and lieutenant nyota uhura ship. Spock witnesses an intimate moment between his mother and father concerning a book of terran poetry.
Spock, whom she admired for his daring, his intelligence, his stoicism. Spock, kirk, bones, scottie, sulu, checkov and uhura are in the middle of shore leave when the admiral calls them to his office. In 2016, tvline ranked the interracial kiss in this episode as one of the top twenty moments of star trek. When a new arrival to san francisco, jim kirk, joins, leonard finds he has even more reason to be there than just styling everyones little girls hair. Since 2009, a younge r uhura has been portrayed by actress zoe saldan a uhura is a translator and communications officer who specializes in linguistics, cryptography, and philology. However, i dont agree that the spock and uhura get it off in turbolift as most romatic moment in the movies. Aug 25, 2014 im normally a spock kirk diehard, but i loved these two in the new movies.
Let them do something different with this alternate universe. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading uhura s song star trek. Uhuras secret songs may hold the key to a cure, but the clues are veiled in layers years ago, lieutenant uhura befriended a diplomat from eeiauo, a land of graceful, catlike beings. Beyond uhura has a nice portfolio of photo plates, and an index with many subentries. Star trek the real reason that spock and uhura become a. Wildcat is one of the best known tosera spock uhura writers, wellregarded for her epic su series fans of the pairing point to suggestive moments between spock and uhura in toss canon. It was discussed in the book the making of star trek by stephen e. Although other noncanon names had previously existed. A spock uhura story from spock s pov during their days at the academy back by popular demand. Since the release of the film star trek, the original reality version of spock is now often referred to on websites and other media as spock prime, to differentiate from the alternate reality version of the character. Love, gods gift is the single most powerful force in the universe. Barbie marks star treks 50th with kirk, spock and uhura. Then he meets firey nyota uhura and as she shows definite romantic interest in him he thinks maybe it might be her. Star treks uhura spock were supposed to hook up years ago.
The spock uhura thing is a load of forced melodrama, pandering to a tween audience conditioned to the female lead falling for the emotionally distant handsome male. When i finished this book i knew i would miss all my friends in this story. May 06, 2017 spock looks at her and then presses the button to unlock the lift. Its a lazy attempt at giving the uhura character a 3rd dimension and probably more insulting to the character than any of the lowest uhura moments tos presented us with. With a character like spock, we need to be observant of every detail as uhura is. Say that uhura s freshman year, she gets lt cmdr spock as an instructor for whatever the hell reason for one of her many classes. At that moment spock stepped closer to uhura, while falla walked into the group, and jabbed her husband in his side.
The mystery regarding uhura s first name is the subject of a running joke in the film, as captain kirk repeatedly tries to find out what it is, before finally hearing spock call her nyota in a moment of intimacy. One song about the creepyeyed, titular charlie x, and then again about spock. Spock first appeared in the original star trek series serving aboard the starship enterprise as science officer and first officer, and later as commanding officer of two iterations of the vessel. Thats the transcript from one scene with spock and uhura, as narrated in the movies novelization for the star trek audio book. Spock is one of the most beloved characters in science fiction and popculture in general. He is also one of 0 surviving members of the vulcan species after the planet vulcan was destroyed by nero. Uhuras song by janet kagan meet your next favorite book. Since it was published in 1994, which was only three years after star trek vi. In other regards, spock said after a moment, message traffic on the bbs has been up significantly in recent days. Spock, and bones most certainly would not have made it out of this jam from the animated series alive. The edge provides many moments fans of the new incarnations of kirk, spock, mccoy, and uhura will enjoy from uhuras initial flirtation with spock all in the name of practicing small talk to the loyalty to mccoy that drives kirk to act when the formers reputation is threatened. Funny spock lines and moments from season 1 youtube. She began her show business career at age 16 as a singer with duke ellington in a ballet she created for one of his compositions and later sang with his band. Nichelle nichols herself described creating such moments to give both uhura and spock some backstory.
He is portrayed by zachary quinto, who also portrayed sylar in heroes. She removed one of her arm bracelet and offered to uhura. Spock is a fictional character in the star trek media franchise. I really like the storyline in these latest star trek films of uhura and spock in love. Uhura comforts spock after a tragedy most people are familiar with this classic, influential science fiction tv show which featured the adventures of captain kirk and his crew as they traveled the universe in. Endeavour with mccoy begrudgingly at his side, and sulu is serving a oneyear exploration mission aboard the u. Very quickly, theyre joined by leonard, spock, hikaru and scotty, some of the best friends nyota has made and a reason to stay in the all mens group. But after the meeting kirk, scottie and bones drag spock to a bar where spock meets a girl, a captain of another spaceship call. Kirk develops a crush on spock, but doesnt expect it to ever amount to anything because his second in command is dating uhura. The vulcan science officer aboard the starship enterprise commanded by captain james t.
New beyond clip shows uhuraspock and spockmccoy dynamics. Fans of the pairing point to suggestive moments between spock and uhura in toss canon. He is a half vulcan, half human starfleet science officer and secondincommand board the uss enterprise in an alternate reality. This is a page dedicated to the star trek canon couple, spock and uhura. Especially when spock tells zar in a way that he truly did love zarabeth. Funny spock lines and moments from season 1 duration. Features prominent spock uhura, spock leila, spock christine, spocksexy romulan commander, spock droxine, spock zarabeth. The pointyeared extraterrestrial was an early fan favorite on star trek, a man who fascinated viewers with his strict adherence to logical responses over emotionally fueled reactions.
He isnt going to react like the original spock and im just fine with that. Uhura s first name was not used in star trek canon until abramss 2009 film. Im normally a spock kirk diehard, but i loved these two in the new movies. Spock and uhura star trek so much for vulcan emotional control. Jun 25, 2014 then, get ready to beam up fun with kirk and spock, a fun with dick and jane parody book due out july 29 from cider mill press. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Until spock and uhura come to kirk with a proposal established spock uhura, spock kirk uhura threesome. After switching to acting, she was twice nominated for the sarah siddons award for best actress in the. When uhura begins an intimate relationship with spock, shewants to find out if the rumours about vulcans are true. Since 2009, a younger uhura has been portrayed by actress zoe saldana uhura is a translator and communications officer who specializes in linguistics, cryptography, and philology.
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