The sextet extended their arms, held both hands up palms outward and .
well, the fastest way to describe the gesture today is that it was a double-handed Vulcan salute.
Nimoy was not the highest-ranking Jew on theEnterprise.That was William Shatner, from a similar Eastern European background.
The seed which would become Spock was planted.
As a young man in Los Angeles, he found extra work in the Yiddish theater.
It was the wife of a Yiddish star who suggested that Nimoy looked like he could play gentiles.
This betwixt-and-between look may have helped him nail Spock.
Spock, said Nimoy, was a wandering Jew.
I totally identified with that.
In Spock the answer was more evident, at least to a chosen few in the viewership.
Nimoyas much as Roddenberry did-established the characters habits and many Vulcan practices.
