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Saturday, July 09, 2011

Weekend Queergeek Eye Candy Blogging


Shirtless Spock!


Mirror Spock!

More Vulcan Wannabe Amor Mundi blogging can be found here and here, by the way.

2 comments:

jimf said...

> Shirtless Spock!

His green blood shows up as a barely-visible grey in that capture, though.

It was never really explained (diagetically) why Spock should have green blood and pink skin. You'd think he might look more like Majel as an Orion slave girl in the original pilot.
( http://www.wired.com/underwire/wp-content/gallery/star-trek-365-book/page-010_0.jpg )

The only time Spock was depicted with green skin (but still with ruddy lips and a pink tongue) was in that original James Bama painting that introduced the new series in TV and print ads in the summer of '66
( http://drexfiles.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/savage_trek.jpg )
and was later used on the cover of the first of James Blish's episode adaptations for Bantam. Spock also has the radically-tilted eyebrows in that painting that the network later decided looked too devilish and alarming, and had to be toned down (i.e., lowered). The Bama publicity painting incorporates scenes from the 2nd pilot, and hence has a rather different look from what TV audiences actually saw when the series debuted. Also, it's clear that the artist (though no fault of his own, I'm sure) didn't quite get the concept of the starship's propulsion -- the Enterprise nacelles (and shuttlecraft hangar bay!) are shown emitting rocket exhaust.

Leonard Nimoy certainly didn't look too bad with his shirt off, though. I think he looks better than the hairless Shatner, who got a lot more semi-nude exposure in the show. Not that Shatner and Nimoy needed any more reasons to compete with each other for viewer loyalty!

jimf said...

> Majel as an Orion slave girl in the original pilot. . .

Oh dear! That was Susan Oliver, of course. Silly me.