10 Star Trek Deleted Scenes You Must See

10. Baby Spock (Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo)

First, sorry not sorry for getting that song stuck in your head.

Second, we’ve all seen one birth of Spock – The Final Frontier Sybok guilt-trip hallucination version – but another does exist. In a deleted scene that was originally meant to open Star Trek (2009), we find ourselves in Shi’Kahr on Vulcan as the cries of a new-born baby echo across the desert. Designed to be somewhat cryptic for the novice (much like the Kirk birth scene), an unnamed human mother (Amanda, of course) is joined by an unnamed Vulcan father (Sarek), who muses, "I had a thought that we might name the child after one of Vulcan’s early society builders. His name was Spock".

Whilst the scene was cut from the film, excerpts showing baby Spock were used in various trailers and TV spots. It was removed from the movie proper to avoid a certain heavy-handedness when it came to the rest of the young Spock and baby/young Kirk scenes.

Given that Spock’s birthyear is stated as 2230 in the movie (although it was 2233 according to The Animated Series episode Yesteryear), and that Kirk’s established birthyear is 2233, the baby Spock scene on Vulcan in Star Trek (2009) must have taken place before the split in the timeline. The scene clashes a little with how Spock’s birth is depicted in Star Trek V – in a cave-like setting – but, in theory, we are in effect seeing both Prime and Kelvin baby Spock in Abrams’ version.