When a script instructed Leonard Nimoy’s character, Spock, to
punch someone, Nimoy felt punching was too undignified for a Vulcan and
invented a way for Vulcans to render their opponents unconscious by pinching
them. From that moment on, the Vulcan Nerve Pinch was born.
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