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A Star Trek lookalike, who mothballed his latex ears after being convicted of harassing neighbours, has turned down an offer to star in a time-warped, Spocking (sorry, shocking) Swedish PORN film.

Roy Ives, from Birmingham, decided the chance to appear in The Vulgar Vulcan was a showbiz Enterprise too far. He has decided not to boldly go into the adult entertainment industry.

Instead, Roy – a double for original Spock Leonard Nimoy – turned up in full costume yesterday at a fundraiser for animal charity the PDSA in Birmingham. His mate, Derek the Dalek, was there, too.

Roy, aged 70, turned his back on the lookalike industry at the height of his earning power. Back in 2005, he was the toast of Star Trek conventions and commanded £500 an appearance.

But a series of lurid headlines – he was branded ‘dispockable’ – following an unseemly spat with neighbours forced him out of the limelight.

Roy, who shares his Kitts Green flat with five cats, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court nine years ago.

He was handed a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £250 costs after branding his neighbour a “slut” and “bastard” – not the kind of language you’d expect from a emotionless Vulcan.





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At the time, Roy, who admitted harassment, told reporters that the case would not harm his Spock sideline. He informed the waiting press posse: “Live long and prosper.”

But he withdrew from the Star Trek scene immediately, deciding not to Klingon to fame.

“The headlines really upset me,” admits Roy, who has since beamed up to a new address. “Spock In Court, Dispockable, The Vulgar Vulcan. I just thought ‘That’s it’. I never bothered to keep in touch with the lookalike agencies and moved elsewhere.

“Looking back, I should have capitalised on the coverage.”

Even the X-rated Scandinavian offer could not tempt Roy into boldly going where no Vulcan has gone before. “I couldn’t do the film they offered. I couldn’t do something like that,” said the pensioner. I’m a Catholic and quite religious. It’s not a direction I want to go in.”

But now, after appearing at a charity event last August, Roy feels the time is right to again pick up his phaser. He has enrolled with the famed Susan Scott lookalike agency.

He’s been missed on the sci-fi circuit, that’s for sure. Roy is aware of only two other Spocks, American Paul Foster and Germany’s Willi Wiegand.

“I have no competition,” he insisted. “Anyone can don a black wig, stick-on latex ears and pointy eyebrows, but I even sound like him.”







That’s a boast that cannot be made by Herr Wiegand, aka Vulcan Willi.

Roy decided to cash in on his uncanny likeness to Leonard Nimoy in 1990 and proved an instant success. He has appeared at conventions all over Europe and even starred in a Swiss TV commercial for a removal company.

In the early days, his mum Alice made his outfits – but they’re now bought off the internet.

He is used to the shouts of “Beam me up, Scotty” while walking Birmingham’s streets – “I just turn a deaf ear,” he says – and being asked for autographs, but has yet to meet his famous double.

“If I was Leonard Nimoy,” he said, “and found out there was someone in England who looked a lot like me, I’d feel pretty good about it.

“I met George Takei, who played Mr Sulu, at London’s Science Museum and he was stunned. He kept saying ‘You look amazing’ and took pictures of me.”

Confirmed bachelor Roy – “I could never bring children into this evil, wicked world” – does, however, have a confession to make. He is not a massive Star Trek fan. Sixties classic The Invaders, is his favourite sci-fi show. Sorry, but that’s just illogical, captain...