How 'Star Trek' almost failed to launch
- Written by Stephen Benedict Dyson, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Fifty years ago – on Sept. 8, 1966 – TV viewers were transfixed by the appearance on screen of a green-hued, pointy-eared alien called Spock. But beneath the makeup, actor Leonard Nimoy fretted that this would be the end of his promising career.
“How can I play a character without emotion?” he asked his boss, Gene...