<P> George Takei, a colleague of Nimoy who portrayed the Star Trek character Hikaru Sulu in the original series, salutes a crowd in 2011 . </P> <Li> <P> Star Trek actor and writer Simon Pegg giving a Vulcan salute in 2016 . </P> </Li> <P> Star Trek actor and writer Simon Pegg giving a Vulcan salute in 2016 . </P> <P> The salute was created by Leonard Nimoy for the Star Trek episode "Amok Time", which was the first episode with Vulcans other than Spock . Nimoy wanted something to help develop the Vulcan sociology, proposed that Vulcans have a greeting and suggested this salute as that greeting . </P>

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