Johnny Ringo said:
My ideal edit would not show ANYTHING of Spock until Kirk calls him out during the session meeting... "who was that pointy eared bastard?" - I'm sure there are plenty that would disagree though.
It's funny, when I watched the film yesterday I had that exact thought. Spock's 'entrance' even feels like a first appearance scene, which would make the edit seamless, stylistically speaking. Nice to know I'm not the only crazy one. ;)