Quinto On Trek Fights

Zachary Quinto (Spock) spoke briefly with reporters regarding the fight scene he was almost in and hints at the never pinch.

"There was originally in the film a sequence that was, I think it was, like, Spock against like six people hand to hand," Quinto told reporters in a group interview last weekend in Los Angeles. "And so I spent a lot of time learning this particular form of martial arts, and ... then, literally two days before we were shooting it, J.J. was like, 'Yeah, we're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. It's going to be a gunfight.' And I was like, 'OK ... ' It's actually worked out better, though. J.J. is always with a mind toward balance. And I think he understood in the context of the film what it needed, and it didn't need that in that moment, and so it changed."

Quinto twinkled when asked if Spock would use his patented Vulcan nerve pinch. "You know, there might be some of that," he said coyly. "We'll see ..."