{"id":5725,"date":"2009-06-27T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/nimoy-gratified-by-fan-reaction\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:38","slug":"nimoy-gratified-by-fan-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/06\/nimoy-gratified-by-fan-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimoy Gratified By Fan Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Spock hadn&#8217;t often been seen in <i>Star Trek<\/i> shows and movies since the days of the original series movies, fans still love the character.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsok.com\/\">NewsOK<\/a>, audiences greeted Spock&#8217;s appearance on screen enthusiastically, which was appreciated by the actor who played him, <b>Leonard Nimoy<\/b>. &#8220;[It was] extremely gratifying,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an accumulation of emotion from a forty-four-year relationship with the audience. Especially pleasing since Spock was marginalized by the makers of the movies and series that followed the first six.&#8221;<!--more-->Those fans include new fans as well as established ones. &#8220;[There are m]any new fans,&#8221; said Nimoy. &#8220;We are now spanning several generations. At first I heard, &#8216;My kids are crazy about you.&#8217; Then it became, &#8216;My parents are crazy about you.&#8217; We&#8217;re back to the young people now, so we have three generations of followers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what did Nimoy think about Spock, not Kirk, &#8220;getting the girl&#8221; in <i>Star Trek XI<\/i>? &#8220;Wonderful, daring idea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m jealous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy also revealed that he has more than one favorite <i>Star Trek<\/i> film. &#8220;<i>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/i>,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and the new film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Nimoy&#8217;s choice for best movie ever is a classic film, not a <i>Star Trek<\/i> one. &#8220;<i>Casablanca<\/i>,&#8221; he said, when asked what his favorite film was.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsok.com\/tulsa-convention-star-trek-lives-long-and-prospers\/article\/3380611\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Spock hadn&#8217;t often been seen in Star Trek shows and movies since the days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2763],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-leonard-nimoy"],"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\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}