Leonard Nimoy

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.

Do you want to know what’s totally frickin’ awesome?

The new Star Trek movie is totally frickin’ awesome.

From the moment the film, the eleventh in the franchise’s history, begins, it is relentlessly, absurdly, unyieldingly awesome.

Walking in, our fandom skewed more toward J.J. Abrams and his Felicity-Lost legacy than the Trekkie world, but from the moment those familiar starships, at the film’s beginning the USS Kelvin, not the USS Enterprise, dip into sight, a sudden, unexpected glee rushed over us.

He may play the unemotional, hyper-logical Dr. Spock, but Leonard Nimoy found himself constantly fighting back tears on the set of J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film.

Nimoy reprises his role of the iconic Vulcan and admits he was a blubbering mess as he watched characters from the original 1960s TV series meeting for the first time in the new prequel.

The scene he struggled with the most was when Captain Kirk, played by Chris Pine, met Karl Urban’s Dr. McCoy for the first time.

How awesome is this picture?

Past and present Doctor Spock, Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto, posed together at the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, an event William Shatner, aka: Captain James T. Kirk, hosted at the LA Equestrian Center on Saturday.

The new Star Trek film, starring Quinto, opens on May 8th and is already on track to break box office records.

That’s because J.J. Abrams, with the exception of Cloverfield, is a mofo-ing P-I-M-P whose brain is huge.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Leonard Nimoy, a.k.a. Spock on the original Star Trek TV series, made a special appearance at The NY Licensing Show in Manhattan.

Awesome!

Leonard is reprising his legendary role in the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek film, due out May 8th, 2009. That is bitchin’ beyond words. We can’t wait!