Quinto’s Fingers Glued into Vulcan Salute

This kind of sounds like the stuff of urban legends, but we’re so hyped on Star Trek right now (we saw it again last night and it’s still AWESOME) that we’re ravenous for any on-set juice.

According to the New York Post, Zachary Quinto had such a hard time training his hands to make the Vulcan salute for the new Star Trek movie, director J.J. Abrams had to glue his fingers together.

Quinto plays a younger version of Leonard Nimoy’s original Spock in the new film, and he apparently couldn’t summon his fingers to separate for the “Live long and prosper” Vulcan salute.

Actually, when you see the movie, you do notice that his hand is bent in an odd way, the one un-Spock-ish moment he has.

Supposedly Quinto tried everything, even binding his fingers with rubber bands, but it didn’t work, so a fed-up Abrams “glued Zachary’s fingers together during filming” to get the shot.

If J.J. thinks it's a good idea, we approve. That man can do no wrong in our eyes.

—Sasha Perl-Raver