Here’s how it works. A casual audience may think that the Vulcan salute was baked into Star Trek's DNA from the get-go, but that's not the case. The hand signal actually made its first ...

The Kohanim Jewish blessing done with two hands became the one-handed Vulcan salute. Ironically, the Vulcan hand salute had its roots in religion even though Star Trek: The Original Series often ...

He goes on to explain that he suggested to the director to use the Vulcan hand salute in Star Trek's "Amok Time" episode that aired on Sept. 15, 1967. The premise of this episode was that Mr ...

Astronaut Terry W. Virts tweeted out the Vulcan hand salute from the space station with Earth's blue seen through the window. He was joined by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti who tweeted ...

The mind meld was a Gene Roddenberry creation, and I added the Vulcan hand salute from my own background." Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.

"Amok Time" introduced key Vulcans like T'Pring, T'Pau, and Stonn, highlighting Vulcan culture and the iconic hand salute.

Could the Vulcan salute replace the handshake as a way of ... your shoulders (to prevent touching your face) and carrying hand sanitizer. As a replacement for handshakes, West suggested, mostly ...

It is probably the most famous greeting in the universe. But the simple Vulcan salute left makers of the new Star Trek film with a galactic-sized headache – because Mr Spock just couldn’t do it.

Suggestions including reviving Mr. Spock's Vulcan salute from the popular sci-fi series "Star Trek." Leonard Nimoy, who played the character, invented the greeting, which incolved raising a hand ...