Rating the Vulcan Salutes from Last Night's Star Trek Premiere

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Bravo to whatever enterprising photographer made last night's Star Trek red carpet more awkward by yelling out, "DO THE VULCAN SALUTE!" Fortunately, a motley crew of celebrities obliged. Let's see who mastered the tricky finger position, and who reinterpreted the directive to be, "Do the Vulcan salute, but make it kinda dyslexic."


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Her work on Heroes has made Hayden Panettiere good at obeying ridiculous direction. Rating: 7

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Simon Pegg (new Scotty) was like, "OK, just take the picture. We're good? Done? OK." Rating: 5

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Multi-tasking Heidi Klum managed to extend the salute, wink, blow a kiss, and give birth to her eighth baby all at the same time. Rating: 8

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George Takei, you've had years to practice this. It's cheating if you stick the ring finger forward! Rating: 3

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Nice form, Jon Heder. We particularly appreciate the wide double-axel followed up by a palm salchow. But no, you cannot have a callback for Star Trek 2. Rating: 10

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Well, Leonard Nimoy, we're giving you a pass on this one, if only because you originated it. Rating: 5

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Chuck's Zachary Levi would have had to give up his TV nerd cred if he couldn't execute this move correctly. Rating: 9

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Yeah, Christian Slater, that's, uh, not correct (we don't care if that's the way Jack Nicholson does it). What is that, the Vulcan version of The Shocker? Rating: 0



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