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. In other regards, spock said after a moment, message traffic on the bbs has been up significantly in recent days. Uhura was not just comforting her good friend in that scene. Aug 15, 2019 heres how spock portrayed by zachary quinto in j. Uhura turned to spock and saw that his hood was already attracting its fair share of snowflakes. Star treks uhura spock were supposed to hook up years ago.
A simple story about spock and uhura during the birth of their first child and introducing the little one to their friends and family. Collecting the top 5 best spock moments from the 2009 star trek movie. I cant believe that so many people like star trek, but cant handle uhura being the romantic lead. 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. The original series book 21 kindle edition by kagan, janet. Nichelle nichols herself described creating such moments to give both uhura and spock some backstory. Abrams star trek films differs from spock originated by leonard nimoy. Fans of the pairing point to suggestive moments between spock and uhura in toss canon. 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.
Nichelle nichols was born grace nichols on december 28, 1932 in robbins, illinois. Kirk develops a crush on spock, but doesnt expect it to ever amount to anything because his second in command is dating uhura. The undiscovered country, and since she is still aliveeightyone years old in 20her book. The novelization features spock, mccoy, uhura, and chekov in scenes set in the prologue in 2293. Uhura and spock get to live out a real relationship rather than a forced kiss thanks to j. Spock uhura isnt terribly common in the tos fandom, although there are certainly fans of the pairing. Gaila dragged the bed covering from her friend and room mate. She removed one of her arm bracelet and offered to uhura. He told him that she was all of the warmth in the world. Jan 19, 2015 explore lulu389s board spock and uhura.
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. Ive never heard of such a romantic line and i never expected one like spock to say such a wonderful thing. Spock spends years searching for love when he had it all along. Endeavour with mccoy begrudgingly at his side, and sulu is serving a oneyear exploration mission aboard the u.
In 2016, tvline ranked the interracial kiss in this episode as one of the top twenty moments of star trek. Spock zachary quinto and uhura zoe saldana the moment. If abrams put spock with chapel, we wouldnt even entertain the possibility of spock choosing uhura. In the initial raid to free a compound under syboks control, uhura performed an. First appeared in the tos het ezine recreation room 1. Three years later, theres an emergency that puts the cadets on ships. The character was portrayed by nichelle nichols through the sixth star trek film. One song about the creepyeyed, titular charlie x, and then again about spock.
Actually, spock and uhura is a couple that roddenberry too had originally wanted to explore but racism in. Having the strict vulcan looking over her shoulder seemed like the worst thing that could happen, until they crashlanded on an uncharted planetoid. For uhura, once again, spock loved her on his own will. 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. No copyright infringement intended just a small video compiling my favourite spock moments. Funny spock lines and moments from season 1 duration. The pocket tos book ishmael gives spock s full name as schn tgai spock. When i finished this book i knew i would miss all my friends in this story. 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. As she stepped forward, she realised it was not a padd, but a real book, compact and dense and dark with age.
Love, gods gift is the single most powerful force in the universe. Spock s mixed humanvulcan heritage serves as an important plot element in many of the characters appearances. I really like the storyline in these latest star trek films of uhura and spock in love. 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. One, unmelting in the cold, had made its way down to rest on his glossy black hair. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. It brings out some interesting things about the couple, and thats why im posting it here. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading uhura s song star trek. All vulcans are basically flame in a way so it isnt hard for spock to believe that maybe his soulmate is tpring. 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. Spock looked at the captain as if he had announced that space was a vacuum.
He is a half vulcan, half human starfleet science officer and secondincommand board the uss enterprise in an alternate reality. May 06, 2017 spock looks at her and then presses the button to unlock the lift. In 2287, the enterprise was called to settle a hostage situation involving spock s brother sybok. I still think that was wrong what they did in the film. 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. But after the meeting kirk, scottie and bones drag spock to a bar where spock meets a girl, a captain of another spaceship call. 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. Spock is one of the most beloved characters in science fiction and popculture in general. Published by pocket books, the novel was first released in hardback in december 1994. My apology my wife tarla approached as well and stood in front of uhura, looking down at her. Star trek beyond should let uhura be the badass character. With a character like spock, we need to be observant of every detail as uhura is. See more ideas about spock, star trek and star trek spock. 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.
When uhura begins an intimate relationship with spock, shewants to find out if the rumours about vulcans are true. The original series, the crucible chronicles devote one book each to the shows biggest stars. He isnt going to react like the original spock and im just fine with that. However, i dont agree that the spock and uhura get it off in turbolift as most romatic moment in the movies. Jun 10, 2009 i love spock and uhura but unfortunately we only saw glimpses of them together on the original series. 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. Aug 25, 2014 im normally a spock kirk diehard, but i loved these two in the new movies. Spock, kirk, bones, scottie, sulu, checkov and uhura are in the middle of shore leave when the admiral calls them to his office. 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. It was discussed in the book the making of star trek by stephen e. There would be no polls, no controversial threads, and no questions asked. The cultural impact of the kiss was noted by national geographic, in 2016. 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.
Thats the transcript from one scene with spock and uhura, as narrated in the movies novelization for the star trek audio book. 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. Barbie marks star treks 50th with kirk, spock and uhura. Spock is the deuteragonist of the science fiction film series star trek. At that moment spock stepped closer to uhura, while falla walked into the group, and jabbed her husband in his side. Although other noncanon names had previously existed. The vulcan science officer aboard the starship enterprise commanded by captain james t. Star trek the real reason that spock and uhura become a. Uhuras song by janet kagan meet your next favorite book. 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. Spock, whom she admired for his daring, his intelligence, his stoicism. Spock, and bones most certainly would not have made it out of this jam from the animated series alive.
I created a relationship between uhura and spock as being her mentor and the person she looked up to. Look, i\m just saying that, if anyone could get spock to play a harp to a tune about how he looks like a devil in disguise, it\s uhura. She wondered briefly as she saw the vulcan characters spread out on the page whether he was reeducating himself in the. 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. Uhura s first name was not used in star trek canon until abramss 2009 film. Jan 7, 2018 star trek het pairing commander spock and lieutenant nyota uhura ship. Wildcat is one of the best known tosera spockuhura writers, wellregarded for her epic su series. Spockuhura isnt terribly common in the tos fandom, although there are certainly fans of the pairing. Features prominent spock uhura, spock leila, spock christine, spocksexy romulan commander, spock droxine, spock zarabeth. A spock uhura story from spock s pov during their days at the academy back by popular demand.
The two women exchanged forbidden songs and promised never to reveal their secret. 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. 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. He is also one of 0 surviving members of the vulcan species after the planet vulcan was destroyed by nero.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Beyond uhura has a nice portfolio of photo plates, and an index with many subentries. 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. Especially when spock tells zar in a way that he truly did love zarabeth. Until spock and uhura come to kirk with a proposal established spock uhura, spock kirk uhura threesome. Then he meets firey nyota uhura and as she shows definite romantic interest in him he thinks maybe it might be her. I wouldnt want the subtle elegance of spock uhura tarnished which doesnt mean i dont think we should see them in private moments.
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. 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. 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. 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.
This is a page dedicated to the star trek canon couple, spock and uhura. Spock and uhura star trek so much for vulcan emotional control. Spock and uhura should not be a couple home facebook. Spock witnesses an intimate moment between his mother and father concerning a book of terran poetry.
See more ideas about spock, star trek and star trek into darkness. Spock is a fictional character in the star trek media franchise. 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. Since it was published in 1994, which was only three years after star trek vi. Kirk is the signature character of the star trek franchise. 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. Spock starts things off with the fire and the rose. 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. Its rise and shine, not rise and gleam, uhura mumbled under the duvet.
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. He is portrayed by zachary quinto, who also portrayed sylar in heroes. Let them do something different with this alternate universe. The vulcan finds himself displaced in time, stuck in a single moment where lives are simultaneously destroyed and created. 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. 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. 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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