Canning related that the scene in question took place in the Enterprise’s mess hall, when Spock was seen drinking alcohol (or perhaps merely synthehol) and laughing with the crew. It was in that scene that someone suggested that he try chewing gum for the first time. Audiences knew gum was common on the Enterprise thanks to a sequence from an earlier episode wherein Lieutenant Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and Commander Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) were able to use the transporters to “re-up” their gum’s flavor. The scene, it seems, was the idea of Peck and Romijn. Canning said:
“We even had this scene — it didn’t make it in the cut — but we were having so much fun on set. We were in the bar set and we had a little extra time, remarkably, and Ethan and Rebecca had, like, worked out this thing. They were like, ‘Okay, can we just try this where, like, I’ve got gum, and Spock wants to try the gum and doesn’t understand what gum is for?’ And I was like, ‘Okay, great. Set up the camera.'”
The actors improvised the scene, and it seems they were unable to keep from making it kind of disgusting. Anyone who’s eaten food while chewing gum would have a visceral reaction to the scene. Canning loved it, anyway. She said:
“The two of them, they did this whole routine where he tries gum and he’s like, ‘Oh, maybe I should try nuts with it.’ And they’re like, ‘No, no.’ And then he is like, ‘How about a pickle?’ It’s just, I mean, it was so silly and funny. Just finding ways for us to see Spock experiencing the world through human eyes and the foibles around that.”
Sadly, it was cut.
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