Spock, Leonard Nimoy and the Vulcan Salute
By June Williams
A friend contacted me recently about a posting found on a popular Star Trek Yahoo group. Someone had posted that Leonard Nimoy developed Vulcan culture based on Leonard’s experience of Jewish culture.
Now I respect Mr. Nimoy but he has never claimed to have constructed or developed Vulcan culture. He was asked to come up with a physical gesture of great dignity to accompany the Vulcan greeting of Live Long and Prosper. What happened then was he added to Star Trek and geekdom everywhere the bifurcated Vulcan salute. I remember him talking about it at more than one Sci-Fi convention and he also wrote about it in his autobiography I Am Spock:
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For the longest time the only thing I knew about Furries was that they were the folks at the cons who wore animal costumes. I had no idea why some people chose to do that, but I also did not question the fact other people were dressed as Storm Troopers either. I had assumed in my naiveté that they were dressed up as some comic book or anime character that I was not familiar with.
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