TNG eventually embraced Spock in its fifth season, reflecting the show's success and shift in attitude towards TOS connections. A producer's memo from an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series ...

The Next Generation was still growing its legs, a reference to Leonard Nimoy's Spock would have been legendary.

As the cast pondered about their seven-season journey from 1987 to 1994 in Star Trek: The Next Generation, they recalled how they had evolved as individuals and also as the characters they portrayed ...