Leonard Nimoy Improvised The Gesture In Season 2 Of Star Trek A casual audience may think that the Vulcan salute was baked into Star Trek's DNA from the get-go, but that's not the case. The hand ...

and I added the Vulcan hand salute from my own background." The Vulcan salute first appeared in "Star Trek" in 1967 with the episode "Amok Time," according to Wikipedia.