> Steven L. wrote:

>> GeneK wrote:

>

>>> "Brian Thorn" cox.net> wrote...

>

>>>> Interesting. Would Garner being playing Leila Kalomi (Jill Ireland's
>>>> character from "This Side of Paradise"?)

>

>>> Leila's dialog from "This Side of Paradise" tells us that she
>>> received neither love nor interest from Spock until he got
>>> spored in that episode.

>

>> That could still qualify as "love interest," similar to Nurse Chapel's
>> unrequited love of Spock prior to "Amok Time."

>

>> Otherwise, since Abrams said he is going to respect canon, Spock can't
>> really be in love with a woman at that point in his life because a)
>> he's not undergoing pon farr yet; b) T'Pring is his real betrothed.

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