Star Trek: Why Spock Limps in the Series' Original Pilot

Star Trek By Robert Vaux Published May 4, 2021 Your changes have been saved Email Is sent Please verify your email address. Send confirmation email You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Manage Your List Follow Followed Follow with Notifications Follow Unfollow Link copied to clipboard Star Trek Related Why Wasn't Admiral Janeway in Star Trek: Picard? Why Does Kathryn Janeway Outrank Jean-Luc Picard? Does Apple TV's Presumed Innocent Connect to the Original Harrison Ford Movie? Sign in to your CBR account Few details escape Star Trek fans, and the original pilot of “The Cage” contains an intriguingcharacterquirkthat led to all manner of rumors over the years. Mr. Spock shows a demonstrable limp in the episode. For a long time, speculation led to the suggestion that Leonard Nimoy had been injured at some point during the production and was working in spite of the injury. However, the truth is more mundane. Nimoy’s union membership would have spared him from working whi...