Vulcan salute Leonard Nimoy for the "Star Trek" episode "Amok Time", which was the first episode with Vulcans other than Spock. Nimoy wanted something to help develop the Vulcans sociologically and suggested that Vulcans have a gestural greeting. He then proposed the (now globally-recognized) sign. The accompanying spoken blessing, "live long and prosper" – ""dif-tor heh smusma"" in the Vulcan language (as spoken in "") – also appeared for the first time in "Amok Time", scripted by Theodore Sturgeon. The less-well-known reply is "peace and long life", though it is sometimes said first, with "live long and prosper" as the reply. The
Prosper de Mestre August 1825, and published in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser by the Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane on 1 September. Under this Act of the First Legislative Council of New South Wales (6 Geo. IV, no. 17 Naturalization (Prosper de Mestre) Act. 30 August 1825) Prosper took the necessary oaths in September 1825, the second person, and second American citizen, to be naturalized in the Colony of New South Wales. This colonial naturalisation declared Prosper to be a ""Natural-born Subject of Great Britain, and to be entitled to all the Rights, Privileges, and Advantages, which are conferred on