Spock-themed porn would have been highly illogical.
Instead of boldly going where surely many men have gone before, Spock impersonator Roy Ives has turned down a feature role in a Star Trek inspired Swedish porn film entitled The Vulgar Vulcan.
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The 70 year old from Kitts Green, Birmingham in the U.K. bears an uncanny resemblance to Leonard Nimoy, the original Mr. Spock, from his well-groomed eyebrows to the timbre of his voice.
I'm relieved: Spock lookalike will not boldly go into porn. http://t.co/c4ccShCQOS pic.twitter.com/LM18mOimFi— DJPaterson (@djpaterson) July 27, 2014
The offer to beam Ives up from obscurity could not have come at a better time. According to the Birmingham Mail, the look-alike pulled himself out of the public eye in 2005 after a harassment dispute. Ives was ordered to pay £250 for his rude comments against his neighbors.
The naughty Swedish enterprise would have seemed tempting to any other down-and-out impersonator, but Ives sadly had to turn it down. "I’m a Catholic and quite religious. It’s not a direction I want to go in," he said to the Birmingham Mail.
Now that the virtuous Vulcan has moved on from his would-be career in porn, he reportedly is putting his perfectly pointed ears back on and rejoining the sci-fi convention circuit. Ives is a member of the Susan Scott look-alike agency, which sends impersonators to events all over the U.K.
Live long and prosper, Mr. Spock. Trekkers will just have to see you in their dreams.
H/T: Birmingham Mail
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