1990 The Star Trek Logs
A Big Picture Special Edition
 

Host: Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis )

Counselor Troi is curious about the crew of the first Enterprise as she sensed a renewed curiosity amongst the crew of the Enterprise she lives on. She opens the computer-log entries on the board computer and watches scenes from the crew. Each actor also is interviewed about the character he / she played.

 

Leonard Nimoy: "I think if I played the same character without any growth or change or definition, it would be boring."
"When I look at some of that stuff today, that Spock was very, very different. He is a character who claims to know exactly who he is, but he really struggles."


"I was inside of this character who claims he has no emotions. 'I have no emotions.' There was a very emotional turmoil going on.
It shows Vulcan philosophy because there was a kind of serenity in it for him and a way of setting himself aside. Spock is the supposedly alien character, but in a way he is the most human character in the group because he has all these human problems..."

"In the way they bounce off of each other, they interact with each other we see the whole story. If you will brake Hamlet , the most famous quote probably in Shakespeare, it would be Spock saying 'to be', McCoy saying 'or not to be' and Kirk saying 'this is the question'."

Counselor Troi: "To be a counselor on that ship would have been an interesting experience."
Leonard Nimoy: "In the first star Trek motion picture we did not get to play a lot of personal drama. It was a movie that was about 'It'. That thing out there: What is it going to do, what is going to happen to it? In Star trek II it engaged us as characters. When it was suggested to me that Spock would die I thought: 'Maybe it's time to end this.'"


"The day we shot the scene (Spock's death scene) I remember I've been extreme sensitive about what we were doing and kind of philosophical." Klingons "The arch-enemy of the west, what as President Reagan, if he was president at the time, referred to as the 'evil empire', and our 'evil empire' in Star Trek was the Klingons.

I thought: 'Wouldn't it be interesting to could now do a story about the Klingons having a difficulty which would leave them in the need to come to us and say: Let's talk about peace. Spock is playing the older statesman. Spock is playing the person who has kind of been through the battles, as a result of ideas that he proposes. Kirk and the Enterprise have been in a life- threatening situation.

Great sense of peace, great sense of accomplishment, great sense of satisfaction, I can just say: It's a good movie, crowd pleaser, entertaining movie and a movie that has a sense of closure about it, a sense of good-bye about it."