S09E07 - The Spock Resonance

No: 190  |  Season: 9   Episode: 7  |  Air Date: 2015-11-05  |  Runtime: mins

Not only is it signed to me but this is where he wiped his mouth. So we are currently in the presence of Leonard Nimoy's DNA.

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Summary

While being interviewed for a documentary about Spock from Star Trek (1966), Sheldon struggles to suppress his emotions about his recent break-up from Amy. Meanwhile, Howard and Bernadette butt heads over renovating his mother's house.

Director and Writers

Director: Nikki Lorre
Writers: Story by: Chuck Lorre & Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Jeremy Howe

Script

Script: S09E07 - The Spock Resonance

Quotes

Penny: What's that ring box?
Sheldon: Oh, that is an engagement ring, that I was going to give my girlfriend Amy.
Penny: What?
Leonard: You bought her a ring?
Sheldon: No, no, no, this has been in my family for generations. No, except for a short time when Comanches cut off my great-great-great grandmother's finger and stole it.
Leonard: Sheldon, that's awful.
Sheldon: No, the Texas Rangers tracked them down to their village and slaughtered every last one of them. It was a happy ending... Well, for my nine-fingered nana.
Penny: Okay, back to the ring. Does Amy even know about this?
Sheldon: No, she broke up with me before I could broach the subject.

Sheldon: Not only is it signed to me, but this is where he wiped his mouth. So we are currently in the presence of Leonard Nimoy's DNA
Wil Wheaton: Um, doesn't Adam count s Leonard Nimoy's DNA?
Sheldon: No offense, but this is pure 100% Nimoy, and because of your mother, you're only 50%. Which isn't bad, but anything that you wipe your mouth on gets thrown away.

Bernadette: (to Howard) I'm redecorating. The furniture, the carpeting, the walls; I'm changing everything that depresses me when I look at it. Try not to be one of those things.

Sheldon: Hello.
Leonard: Hey buddy. How you doing?
Sheldon: Better. Did Wil and Adam leave?
Leonard: Yeah.
Sheldon: Do you think they want to put my outburst in the documentary?
Leonard: Oh, yeah.
Penny: Definitely.
Sheldon: Well, there's no point dwelling on it. As the Vulcans say: Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau?
(Vulcan phrase. It means: "Can you return life to what you kill?")
Penny: Do you know what that means?
Leonard: No.
Penny: Are you telling me the truth?
Leonard: Nirsh.
Sheldon: Well, this is ridiculous. Being upset about Amy all the time isn't accomplishing anything. If I want to resolve this situation, then I'm going to take action.
Penny: What are you going to do?
Sheldon: I'm going to find her and ask her to marry me. If she says yes, we can put his behind us and resume are relationship. And if she says no... well then she can just ponfo mirann.
(Vulcan phrase. It means "go to hell")
Leonard: He didn't mean that.

Sheldon: Penny, you've spent some time in front of the camera. Any words of advice?
Penny: Yes, don't take your shirt off just because the director said so.
Sheldon: This is a documentary about Mr. Spock. I'm sure if there is nudity, it will be tasteful.

Sheldon: Leonard, how could I have been so foolish, to try and follow in the footsteps of a made-up alien race with no emotions?
Leonard: (sighs) Well, now instead of idolizing fictional characters you can focus on the real people who are already in your life.
Sheldon: Those are very wise words.
Leonard: Thank you.
Sheldon: They'd just be so much more comforting if they came out of a television.

Leonard: When did we get a wall safe?
Sheldon: When there was no more room in the floor safe.
Leonard: When did we get a floor safe?
Sheldon: When we got the security camera!
Leonard: There's a security camera?
Sheldon: Aquaman, protecting your home since 2012.
Penny: Oh my God, we've done things on that couch.
Sheldon: Yeah, you don't have to tell me.

Penny: Sheldon, I'm no expert, but aren't you completely missing the point of Spock? He liked to act like he had no emotions, but he was still half human.
Leonard: Just like you.

Leonard: (as Adam starts to interview Sheldon) How long have you known Adam?
Wil Wheaton: A few years.
Leonard: And what are you getting him back for?

Leonard: Did you hear about this study that found people that were cool and popular at thirteen had problems succeeding later in life?
Raj: Hm, I 'm doing OK and I was very popular at thirteen.
Penny: In school?
Raj: Oh no, at home. The servants would sing to me, laugh at my jokes... I wish I knew their names.
Penny: The study say what happens to the unpopular kids?
Leonard: You tell me; you woke up in bed with one.

Bernadette: I told my dad that you were the one who didn't want kids because I didn't want to disappoint him.
Howard: But you were OK throwing me under the bus?
Bernadette: Turns out yeah, didn't think twice about it.

(Sheldon is showing the valuables he keeps in his lock box)
Sheldon: (bringing out each item) My passport. My Wil.
Leonard: You have a will?
Sheldon: Yeah, my one-eighteenth scale Wil Wheaton action figure. Yeah, I also have the other kind of will, and in it, I will my Wil back to Wil.
Leonard: Will Wil want it?
Wil Wheaton: Wil won't.

Adam Nimoy: And what is your earliest memory of the character Spock?
Sheldon: The first episode of Star Trek, The Original Series, I ever saw was The Galileo Seven. Spock had just landed on the planet Taurus 2. Then my brother came in, sat on my head, and said "eat farts". After that day, I was hooked. On Star Trek, not my brother's sphincter-based cuisine.

Wil Wheaton: Hey Sheldon. This is Adam Nimoy.
Adam Nimoy: Nice to meet you.
Sheldon: Oh, it's nice to meet you. I admire your father's work very much. It's not every day I get to meet someone whose life's journey began in my hero's scrotum.
Wil Wheaton: (quiet aside to Adam Nimoy) I told you this guy is gold.

Notes and Trivia

Only acting credit for Adam Nimoy, son of the late Leonard Nimoy (who had featured in the show in The Transporter Malfunction (2012)). Adam has mostly worked as a copyright lawyer and a TV director, and has appeared as himself in a number of documentaries.

The clip is from Star Trek (1966) is from Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966).

The documentary about Spock that is being filmed in this episode is a genuine title called For the Love of Spock (2016). In addition to clips from this episode being shown in the documentary, Jim Parsons, Bill Prady and Mayim Bialik were all interviewed for it.

The Vulcan phrase used by Sheldon ("Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau?") to say that there is no use to dwell on things that have passed literally means "Can you return life to what you kill?" When Penny asks Leonard if he knows what it means, he replies with "No". When she asks him if he's telling the truth, he responds with "Nirsh" ("No"). At the end, when Sheldon says that if Amy rejects his marriage proposal, she can just "ponfo mirann", it means "go to hell". It is interesting to note that the Vulcan language from Star Trek lore isn't as well developed as the Klingon language, for which an entire grammar and vocabulary was conceived.

Title Reference: The title refers to the continuing importance that the character Spock has on Sheldon, who is torn between his image as an emotionless person and his feelings for Amy. Also, the (real) documentary being filmed in the show, For the Love of Spock (2016), frequently mentions how much Spock resonates with people who feel like outsiders.

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