Leonard Nimoy Improvised The Gesture In Season 2 Of Star Trek A casual audience may think that the Vulcan salute was baked into Star Trek's DNA from the get-go, but that's not the case. The hand ...

and I added the Vulcan hand salute from my own background." The Vulcan salute first appeared in "Star Trek" in 1967 with the episode "Amok Time," according to Wikipedia.

“Well, my good buddy, why the Vulcan salute? Did you dream about Mr. Spock last night?” “No, but I did read an article in the Times of Israel that asked, ‘Are We Jews A Hand-Oriented People?