Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

No reason, except I love Spock.

[BlaneckW]

Everyone loves Spock.

[Rusty Edge]

And it goes really, really well with your sigline.

"Live long and prosper"  "... Romulans, not that long. "

[Buster's Uncle]

I let them escape this time.

[Buster's Uncle]

Everyone loves Spock.

Everyone.

[Unorthodox]

Not Sylar-Spock.

[Buster's Uncle]

Correct, sir.

Why do we love the real Spock so much?

[Rusty Edge]

Because he had enough presence of mind to keep his shirt on?

[Geo]

In the seventies? As an alien?? I bet he'd be lynched if he didn't!!!

[Buster's Uncle]

Because he had enough presence of mind to keep his shirt on?

Sorry to do this to you, but it's my duty as a nerd.

[Rusty Edge]

Because he was wise  enough to know what it was that he didn't know.
For example, if he had Counselor Troi, he would have made good use of her every episode.



I have no problem with that. I remember.  He stayed in shape.

I also know that he was a fast learner, and switched out of red shirts to blue in the opening scenes to improve his survival chances.

[Rusty Edge]

Most of all, I love him for this-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlWmYe8HM4

[Buster's Uncle]

Embedding works if you take the s out of https:  I don't understand why, either.

Civilization IV: "In The Beginning"

Good narration.

[Unorthodox]

Correct, sir.

Why do we love the real Spock so much?

He was a reasonably believable alien.  The first, IIRC, and quite possibly the best one ever put on screen.  90% of trek aliens are humans in makeup, virtually no distinctive characteristics to differentiate them.  (We've been watching TNG again lately, and come to realize the Romulans are the most HUMAN characters on TNG)  Spock was that just enough off, yet not totally unapproachable perfect combination.  And most importantly, Nimoy NAILED it.  Even the crap he was given, he NAILED his part. 

Sylar-Spock really showed he COULD do the job (haven't seen the second movie, so just based on his acting ability in the first), but whoever wrote the whole yo momma joke bs that turned Sylar-Spock into a raging inferno ready to go off any second was an idiot. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I thought Sylar was playing Tuvok, not Spock.  Think it over; his "Spock" was a peevish unlikeable [male member], like his annoyance at humans was showing all the time, not the deep, shy trying-to-be-cold real Spock we admire.

I think we love Spock partly because he's a heroic figure.  He gets results, he has superpowers, he works hard.  He's different, as you say, but in a way you can wrap your head around easily.  It's a credible attempt at suggesting alienness within the limits of 60's TV, but the issues Spock struggles with -self control, trying to be the person he wants to be, alienation in the lonely sense- are ones the target audience, us nerdz, can really get behind.

I am Spock.