From: utzoo!watmath!rtris Newsgroups: net.startrek Title: Spocks casket Article-I.D.: watmath.3458 Posted: Sun Sep 12 14:36:05 1982 Received: Mon Sep 13 00:30:55 1982 Hail, It is highly unlikely that anyone saw Spock's casket open at the short of having a hallucination.A while ago a guy submitted a long article to net.movies that settled many such questions to rest on the basis of first hand information from Paramount Studios and the script of the movie.The casket was a solid prop. Ralph. P.S. I rather liked Victor on Space 1999,although I agree Maya was more "neato"