![]() " It harks back to the days when they were savage, and emotion ruled them," she revealed. Fontana, the Vulcan death grip was actually intended to be more than just a fictitious technique. McCoy instead of Captain Kirk.Īccording to writer D.C. In Leonard Nimoy's television special titled Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories, Nimoy mistakenly remembers that Spock had pretended to apply the Vulcan death grip to Dr. Spock uses the Vulcan death grip as a threat when attempting to learn the location of a stolen protomatter warhead in the novel Foul Deeds Will Rise, with Montgomery Scott feigning shock at the idea that Spock would go that far and later teasingly wondering what they will do if people ever learn that the Vulcan death grip does not exist. When informed of the incident, Nurse Christine Chapel exclaimed, " But there's no such thing as a Vulcan death grip!" Kirk replied, " Ah, but the Romulans don't know that!" ( TOS: " The Enterprise Incident") When he recovered, Kirk complained of his neck feeling like it had been twisted off. In reality, Spock had administered an especially deep nerve pinch to Kirk to falsify the latter's death, and also to block Kirk's life signs from Romulan bio-scanners. ![]() Leonard McCoy angrily spat, " Well, at least your instincts are still good, Mr. ![]() Spock claimed that he had used the death grip instinctively, in response to an unexpected assault from Kirk. Kirk as a means to fool the Romulans into believing Kirk was dead, so as to bring him back on board the USS Enterprise without causing suspicion. In 2268, Spock used the so-called "Vulcan death grip" on Captain James T.
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