Video of Leonard Nimoy At Star Trek Screening

At yesterday’s Fantastic Fest, they screened Star Trek II for the crowd (check out our review roundup here), but that wasn’t all.

As the opening credits for the film began to roll for what people THOUGHT was going to be just a sneak peek of the film, the projection began to malfunction. As they “stalled for time” and began to do a Q & A, suddenly, the original Spock appeared to save the day. Leonard Nimoy made an appearance to introduce the film, brought along with him the entire J.J. Abrams Star Trek, and then answered questions. Nimoy’s appearance was so well planned that Harry Knowles was shocked.

Check out videos of Nimoy’s sudden appearance, his introduction, and more below…

Part 1 – Introduction with Harry Knowles from Ain’t It Cool News and Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof (before Nimoy’s appearance)…

Part 2 – The fake stall and Nimoy’s appearance…

Part 3 – After the movie…

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Fantastic Fest was started by Tim League of the Alamo Drafthouse (where this particular screening was taking place), Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News, and Tim McCanlies, director of Iron Giant. The festival specializes in genre films (horror, sci-fi, cult, etc) and usually has surprise screenings. What a cool surprise. The fact that they showed the film, got so many cool people to show up, and allowed people to write about it is TRULY amazing.

Thank goodness for super nerds!