{"id":46742,"date":"2017-09-08T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=46742"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:00:59","slug":"shatner-nimoy-planned-spocks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/09\/shatner-nimoy-planned-spocks-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Nimoy Planned Spock&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> &#8220;planned&#8221; Spock&#8217;s death and had good reasons for doing so. &#8220;I believe it was all planned,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I now believe (Nimoy) and<strong> Harve <\/strong>[<strong>Bennett<\/strong>] cooked this up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suddenly realized that I, as well as many other people, had been taken in by the death of Spock. Leonard was so marvelous at working the territory that he got a directing job out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner had no idea at the time, believing that Nimoy was finished with Trek for good. &#8220;I was thinking my good friend Nimoy is in essence saying goodbye to the whole part,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one told me they were thinking otherwise. But I would have enjoyed being in on it. I get the secrecy. But it\u2019s all great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> director <strong>Nicholas Meyer<\/strong> disagrees with Shatner&#8217;s view of the matter. &#8220;Here&#8217;s what happened,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Leonard was very ambivalent about doing another <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie. 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