"So an interesting tid bit, I hope, wether anybody liked Uhura/Spock ou not is that, though we ran most of our outline par JJ, Alex and I did not tell him we were going to make them an item. We let that be a surprise to everyone in the script. JJ later a dit those scene were key to his decision to direct the movie." - Bob Orci (link)
------------------- "It brings out his human side, it fits Spock’s arc for the surprise of the fact that he does share humanity and in the revelation that his father did l’amour his mother, and therefore Spock himself is then capable of that and you...
