S1E14 - What is this reverse 🖖 hand signal Riker does?
S1E14 - What is this reverse 🖖 hand signal Riker does?
In S1E14, at the beginning Riker is walking along side Yarr and Worf who are departing to play a game when Riker says “The pride of the Enterprise goes with you!” and the. Gives a reverse 🖖 hand signal. Anyone know what it means?
(Tried attaching a photo but it won’t let me for some reason)
Here’s a link to the photo: https://ibb.co/C7sshPL
2It is a Vulcan salute: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salute
I don't recall why Riker would have been using one in that context, though, unless TNG was trying to establish the gesture had expanded in use across the Federation.
EDIT: also, this is in S01E15 "11001001", not E14.
0The thing is.. the Vulcan salute is palm out. He has palm in, thumb in. It caught me off guard which was why I felt the need to come post as I couldn’t find it anywhere online.
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@QDidNothingWrong I suspect it's just a simple case of the actor getting it wrong and no one on set really noticed at the time. It's definitely not the standard form.
0Another fascinating point is it’s not tradition to do the Vulcan salute to a non-Vulcan of which none of the characters on screen were so it’s strange he’d use that salute when not referencing anything Vulcan in the scene.
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