# Audi commercial with battling Spocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715 "2013-05-07T16:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/41 "2013-05-08T20:28:04Z")
> [@Quercus\_alba](#): > > Was it Simon (Scotty) Pegg? > > [On second look, prob not–but it does have a Stanford logo, so probably just making some techie commentary…] I love the idea that it could be Simon Pegg, but I think if it were, they’d have made it more obvious… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/42 "2013-05-09T02:10:50Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > In case anyone hasn’t seen it, [here’s this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OyXRLNwS0) Will explain Nimoy’s singing (oh the humanity)… I shall assume everyone involved was well and thoroughly baked through the concept, creation and publishing of this. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/43 "2013-05-09T02:31:47Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I shall assume everyone involved was well and thoroughly baked through the concept, creation and publishing of this. I suspect that Nimoy needed the money. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/44 "2013-05-09T02:38:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I suspect that Nimoy needed the money. That’s probably a good call. The song was released in early 1968 and was in production during late 1967, when it looked like Star Trek was going to be cancelled. If he didn’t actually NEED the money, he probably thought he would soon. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/45 "2013-05-09T03:11:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > That’s probably a good call. The song was released in early 1968 and was in production during late 1967, when it looked like Star Trek was going to be cancelled. If he didn’t actually NEED the money, he probably thought he would soon. He wrote some books: _I Am Not Spock_. _Oops, Perhaps I Am._ And then came the films. Kill me off! Oops, bring me back. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/46 "2013-05-09T03:42:02Z")
Someone (elsewhere) notes “the WoK reference”–what would that be? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/47 "2013-05-09T03:45:05Z")
WoK = Wrath of Khan. Near the end, when Nimoy pulls up in his car, he acts out Spock’s death sequence through the window (in the movie, the same scene was done through a transparent radiation barrier that Spock was on the wrong side of). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/48 "2013-05-09T10:08:02Z")
Only problem I had with it: the only way I noticed it was an Audi commercial was in reading people talking about it. And I never noticed that [del]Spock[/del]Nimoy was driving a Mercedes. But I don’t follow cars at all. (I left the error in because that’s how I originally typed it.) EDIT: I’d say both looked different than I’d expected to see them, Nimoy with his long hair and Quinto in a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/49 "2013-05-09T12:30:24Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > In case anyone hasn’t seen it, [here’s this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OyXRLNwS0) Will explain Nimoy’s singing (oh the humanity)… For the logic of Surak, do not click on that link, if you value your sanity at all. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/50 "2013-05-09T14:45:32Z")
What I noticed was that Nimoy was portrayed as the somewhat out of touch “old guy”(His car stereo doesn’t work? Is that why he sings to himself?), while Quinto is the “hip & tech savy” dude with a sleek new luxury car, sporting all sorts of bells and whistles. Yay stereotypes. Yawn. Still, Nimoy wasn’t completely feeble. (“Technically, we’re not inside, yet.” [neckpinch] ) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/51 "2013-05-09T14:52:19Z")
Nimoy also won their chess match. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/52 "2013-05-09T15:21:30Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > Nimoy also won their chess match. That’s right! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/53 "2013-05-09T17:36:57Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > What I noticed was that Nimoy was portrayed as the somewhat out of touch “old guy”(His car stereo doesn’t work? Is that why he sings to himself?), while Quinto is the “hip & tech savy” dude with a sleek new luxury car, sporting all sorts of bells and whistles. > > Yay stereotypes. Yawn. Still, Nimoy wasn’t completely feeble. (“Technically, we’re not inside, yet.” [neckpinch] ) 🙂 Nimoy’s Merc wasn’t too shabby - just didn’t have a big trunk. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/54 "2013-05-09T18:09:12Z")
The car at the end was Stanford’s Shelley - a self-driving Audi: [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/shelley-autonomous-car-081312.html](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/shelley-autonomous-car-081312.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/55 "2013-05-09T19:15:47Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > Nimoy’s Merc wasn’t too shabby - just didn’t have a big trunk. Would have fit fine if he’d taken out that one club and put it in the back seat. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/56 "2013-05-09T19:28:45Z")
Well, it’s not your father’s Oldsmobile. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/57 "2013-05-09T19:39:24Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Would have fit fine if he’d taken out that one club and put it in the back seat. No, that would have just made all the other clubs jealous. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/58 "2013-05-09T20:30:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Well, it’s not your father’s Oldsmobile. [Nice reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7FwcHyNlQ) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/59 "2013-05-10T00:08:59Z")
That was fun. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715/60 "2013-05-11T14:12:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > He wrote some books: > > _I Am Not Spock_. > > _Oops, Perhaps I Am._ > > And then came the films. > > Kill me off! > > Oops, bring me back. > > 🙂 No no, according to Comic Book Guy it goes: “First _I Am Not Spock_, then _I Am Spock_, and finally _I Am Also Scotty!_” (picture on cover has Nimoy with a mustache, a big hoagie, and a huge fat gut!) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audi-commercial-with-battling-spocks/657715.md?page=4)