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 Giquel to help end the Sino-French war which had broken out due to conflicting Sino-French claims to Indochina. Among the traumatic events of that period, certainly for Prosper Giquel, was the August 1884 destruction by the French navy of the Foochow Dockyard, the principal accomplishment of his entire career in China, in the Battle of Fuzhou. Prosper Giquel appears as a character in Li Bo's "Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom" an historical novel set in the middle of the 19th century as well as the same author's "Beyond the Heavenly Kingdom". Prosper Giquel Prosper Marie Giquel (1835–1886), was a French naval officer