{"id":25637,"date":"2013-05-03T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=25637"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:27:56","slug":"saldana-spock-uhura-romance-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/05\/saldana-spock-uhura-romance-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saldana: Spock-Uhura Romance Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25643\" title=\"Earsburning0502131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Earsburning05021312.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoe Saldana<\/strong> explains what will happen to the Spock-Uhura relationship in <em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Spoilers are behind the cut.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In this second new<em> Star Trek<\/em> movie, the romance between Uhura and Spock has developed some problems. &#8220;Spock is such a committed person,&#8221; said Saldana. &#8220;He&#8217;s always willing to give up his life for his team and for what he believes in \u2013 and I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s starting to sit well with Uhura.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She definitely would like to feel \u2013 like anybody who&#8217;s in love \u2013 she would like to feel that she has some kind of relevance in his psyche that would compel him to go, &#8216;Wait a minute, let me think it. Let me recoup myself.&#8217; And he just doesn&#8217;t, and obviously that causes her to question why she&#8217;s with him. She asks herself, &#8216;What is it about Spock that I&#8217;ve always been taken by?&#8217; And I was really happy with that dynamic and that continuation of the relationship, of their relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uhura doesn&#8217;t choose the best of times to confront Spock about this. &#8220;I love that scene when we have that conversation,&#8221; said Saldana. &#8220;It&#8217;s in front of their boss too, the Captain is in-between us. We&#8217;re getting shot at and I ask him to commit to more. It feels like a typical, contemporary love story. That&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s great about working with J.J. and his team of writers, in that you\u2019re going to be stepping into shoes of human beings \u2013 whether they&#8217;re superhuman, or whether they&#8217;re fighting battles. Even considering what they do as work, they&#8217;re still being challenged with everyday matters of the heart, you know? And they&#8217;re still being challenged with politics and self-discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the story and the journey between Spock and Uhura is, in my opinion, she&#8217;s learning the kind of person he is, and she&#8217;s encouraging him to cater to his human side, to his human half. And there&#8217;s a conflict there, because he doesn&#8217;t want to be compromised, because he feels like if he&#8217;s to be compromised he&#8217;ll be weak and a lot of people will suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Uhura will need to learn how to &#8220;understand his Vulcan side,&#8221; explained Saldana. &#8220;She&#8217;s with a man who has duty before anything else, she needs to accept and embrace that when he tells her that she&#8217;s important to him, that she is. But that&#8217;s really hard for us ladies, we often want more. So that&#8217;s the conflict. But I liked the way in that scene that it was presented how we would have it out, you know? It&#8217;s not just us sitting down having a cup of tea; our lives are in danger. With the levity of the situation it&#8217;s really humorous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Saldana explains what will happen to the Spock-Uhura relationship in Star Trek into Darkness&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2410,2412,2411],"class_list":["post-25637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-saldana","tag-spock","tag-uhura"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25646,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions\/25646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}