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
Social character Erich Fromm emphasizes the social necessities, which must be obeyed by the members of a society. So that a society functions adequately, their members must acquire a character structure which enables them to do what they need to do in order to prosper. It is for example expected in an authoritarian society that people are motivated to subordinate themselves to a hierarchy and fulfill selflessly the instructions brought to them. In peasant society, people are socialized to save and to work independently. However, in the permissive consumer culture people are socialized to consume gladly and extensively. Thus the character structure