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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a spock" is not correct and usable in written English as it lacks context and clarity.
It may be intended as a reference to a character or concept, but without additional context, its usage is ambiguous.
Example: "In the latest episode, a spock appeared, showcasing his unique abilities."
Alternatives: "a Vulcan" or "a character like Spock".
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I have a Spock ear".
More of a Kirk approach than a Spock approach, you might say, more heart than head.
This episode of "Star Trek: Discovery" features a Spock that even Burnham admits is "entirely out of character". Audiences will likely agree.
(Sheldon's exchange with the late, great Leonard Nimoy, speaking in the guise of a Spock action figure, is one of The Big Bang's best bits).
I can't decide whether Jeff Gedmin, the current captain of RFE/RL, is more of a Kirk type or a Spock type.
Many of these fans have written Spock into Star Trek scripts of their own imagining; and there is reason for thinking that these women are trying to relate to a "Spock" within themselves, and thus to their own masculinity.
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The other crew members are Kent, a wealthy humanoid who has wakened from a chemical bath; Tina, Stewart's ditzy love interest; and Natasha, a Spock-like virtual sexbot and the ship's operating system, who appears on a computer screen.
Mr. Obama may have played like a rock star in the campaign arenas of 2008, according to this view, but he displays a Spock-like emotional aridity in more intimate settings.
A Spock-like economic wonk used to the civilized stone halls of the New York Federal Reserve bank, Geithner was dragged in 2009 into one of the most ill-starred tenures of any modern US treasury Secretary.
The book's most interesting passages deal with Carmack, a Spock-like character who ends sentences by saying "mmm" and seems to view emotions as a strange and foolish waste of time.
He spoofed his own persona in comedy Galaxy Quest (2000), in which he plays a Shakespearian-trained actor who has found fame as a Spock-style alien in a long-running sci-fi series and in Victoria Wood's Christmas special of the same year, as an upright colonel at the Battle of Waterloo.
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