fiction,
but can also be used as a weapon.
So, this one item,
-even though it's double duty.
-Yeah.
The ending of the mind-meld in every
iteration was always the same,
because we basically said, you know,
as an expositional tool
to explain to the audience
what happened, it's really important.
But what's even more important
is that we come out of this,
and Kirk's takeaway
from this entire event is,
"Wow, Vulcans actually have
the capacity for emotion.
"You guys do feel."
So it always had to sort of end
with this moment of grandiose emotion.
And I really feel like Leonard played
it beautifully here.
I am so grateful to him.
I mean, obviously,
we couldn't have
made this movie without him.
But to have, you know, Leonard come
back and be Spock again.
I mean, something I don't think
he necessarily thought he would do.
It was just it was such an honour
to work with him.
-No, for us it was...
-And to do it to continue it on,
it's so generous. That's what's amazing.
His presence here is so generous
-and heroic and loving.
-Totally.
And he was so great to Zachary.
I mean, I remember, you know,
when we were on set shooting
that scene between the two Spocks
at the end, and, you know,
he could not have been
more supportive of Zachary.
And he didn't have to be, you know?
Here's this young kid coming in,
assuming this role that he created
40-some years ago,
and he was nothing but...
And when he says, "Good luck,"
I literally feel like he's saying to Zachary,
"Good luck."
-Like, "I got to live this life doing..."
-I think he's saying...
-It's amazing.
-"Thrusters on full," at the end,
which was the moment
that he kind of came up with on set...
That was his line.
That is such a sort of blessing
to the future of Star Trek.
And when you go from that moment,
and you...
Maryann Brandon just hard cut
to Sulu saying, you know,
Maryann Brandon just hard cut
to Sulu saying, you know,
"Thrusters at max," it's just crazy.
The line that I wish we'd kept
in the earlier scene, just to make clear,
was that at one point we had written
a thing where, you know,
Kirk sort of asks the question,
"I don't understand.
"You're saying that our lives were
diverged from the original timeline,
"but there's all these coincidences,
and how's that possible?"
And Nimoy says, you know,
"There's no real way to answer it,
"but perhaps it's the timestream's way
of mending itself."
Which was essentially a way
of embracing the coincidences and...
Well, if you study your quantum
mechanics, though,
-there's a good explanation for it.
-And he also...
He runs down, he asks, like,
"So, who's the helmsman?" "Sulu."
You know,
"Who's the chief security officer?"
And he's running them all down
so that even getting to Scotty,
you know, felt like
a little less coincidental.
Well, it's funny, 'cause literally,
it was the thing that,
I remember
when it was first pitched, like,
"How are you guys ever gonna make
running into Spock in the cave work?"
Right, you were really stuck on that.
-You just didn't... Yeah.
-I was,
but what you guys did so brilliantly is,
like, by saying it's fate,
that it's destiny,
these characters must be together,
that to me, I was like, "Oh, my God."
It literally just for some reason,
just made...
'Cause you know what the answer is?
-'Cause you want it.
-Right.
-That's a Lost trick, which is...
-It is such a Lost trick.
-...do not mistake coincidence for fate.
-That's exactly right.
This moment originally didn't have
music over it.
This was another one of those pieces
that we added at the very last minute.
By the way, for some reason,
my son is obsessed with Keenser,
and he's never seen him,
just based on describing Keenser.
I'm obsessed with Spock's coat here.
-I just feel like, why does...
-I'm buying you one.
Why does this coat not exist
in the real world?
By the way,
half their jackets are amazing.
-Yeah, the