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Subj : Re: Star Trek TV is 39 years old today!
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Graeme
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 10:19:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

>NBC was worried for good reason.
>Because lots of religious Americans believed in the devil and NBC feared
>they would think Spock was satanic.  In fact, according to an Opinion
>Dynamics poll taken only a year or two ago, 71% of Americans believe in
>the devil today:

No, I think they were worried that Spock would remind people of Pan,
who as we all know, tends to bore people.


Seriously though, this is not some wild thing that NBC dreamed up.
Roddenberry's own descriptions of Spock described him as "slightly
Satanic in appearance".  We've often heard that Roddenberry defended
Spock on the grounds that there needed to be an alien in the
Enterprise's crew to help the viewer know that they were really in
outer space.  But that doesn't really explain why he had to have this
particular appearance.  I *assume* that the point was to show that
people can't necessarily be judged by appearance, but I've never heard
Roddenberry say that, I'm just guessing.

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