Leonard Nimoy, who died in 2015 at age 86, revealed the humor wasn’t happenstance. In fact, for his second outing as director and actor following it was a mandate. “I said I want to have some fun here,” Nimoy explained. “We said intentionally right from the very beginning.
We want this lighter in tone than these previous films.” Noting the amount of deaths that transpired in I-III, including Mr.
Spock, Nimoy quipped, “[The characters] were having eulogies all the time.”One step of Nimoy's initiative was a memorable incident as Spock and Captain Kirk (William Shatner) traversed San Francisco circa 1986, or “the Dark Ages” according to Bones (DeForest Kelley).
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