February 27, 2015

Goodbye to Leonard Nimoy.

The author of "I Am Not Spock" (1977) and "I Am Spock" (1995) has died at the age of 83.

32 comments:

Bad Lieutenant said...

I have been, and shall always be, your fan.

Tibore said...

"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

YoungHegelian said...

Leonard Nimoy wasn't just Spock. He was the template for the entire fictional Vulcan race, which assumes more & more importance as the franchise developed.

I'm not sure that any of the other ST races had such an obvious "father".

traditionalguy said...

As a Vulcan, Nimoy was a trained ax thrower, but sadly his lungs did not adjust well to our atmosphere.

Gahrie said...

I am glad that Nimoy came to a sense of peace and acceptance about Spock, both for him and his many fans.

Nonapod said...

It's weird. Spock has been one of the most influential fictional people in my life, and probably more influential than many real people have been.

Anonymous said...

Landing party away, Mr. Spock.

Thank God Sheldon Cooper has his DNA.

MadisonMan said...

He's dead, Jim.

Fritz said...

I met him briefly when he considered buying a tropical fish store in L.A. that I worked at. He didn't wear his ears at the time. He wisely decided to invest his Hollywood cash elsewhere.

Larry J said...

I enjoyed his work, but perhaps the funniest was this voice over on "The Big Bang Theory".

dreams said...

And goodbye to investor Irving Kahn age 109.

http://www.crainswealth.com/article/20150226/WEALTH/150229917

LCB said...

In later years he seemed to be the most "balanced" of the original cast members. No puffed up ego...no bitterness about what might have been.

As Tibore quoted earlier:
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most...human!"

Big Mike said...

@MadMan, well said.

dreams said...

William Shatner seems to be going strong at age 83.

William said...

I read the obit. He was a decent man who led a worthy life. Maybe he can be reincarnated for the sequel.

tim in vermont said...

What can I say, you feel like you knew him personally.

It is pretty funny sometimes in the global warming flame wars to run into a warmie who thinks that Spock is the prototypical scientist, and not a character in a TV series who manages impossible things, and that scientists like Michael Mann are therefore like Spock.

fivewheels said...

Paraphrasing a tweet I saw earlier today: It was nice to see so many nice pictures of Nimoy in his iconic white and gold Spock costume.

Rumpletweezer said...

One to beam up.

Unknown said...

was spock's costume blue and black or white and gold?

Wince said...

During college we invented our own Star Trek drinking game one night.

The biggest trigger to drink five slammers was "Spock becomes sexually aroused," remembering at the time only one episode when he returns to Vulcan to mate.

Well, the episode we watched that night contained this scene with Uhura .

While Spock seems disconcerted by Uhura's singing at first, and the level of arousal may be a close call (we were screaming exhortations at the TV screen), I think you'll agree that his coy smile was eventually enough to justify us getting started on a truly epic drinking binge.

Oh, on the Starship Enterprise
There's someone who's in Satan's guise,
Whose devil's ears and devil's eyes
Could rip your heart from you!
At first his look could hypnotize,
And then his touch would barbarize.
His alien love could victimize...
And rip your heart from you!
And that's why female astronauts
Oh very female astronauts
Wait terrified and overwrought
To find what he will do.
Oh girls in space, be wary, be wary, be wary!
Girls in space, be wary!
We know not what he'll do.


So many memories, young and old.

Live long and prosper.

cold pizza said...

Even Spock was Banned from Argo. It's an old, sci-fi folk song (filk) about R&R for the Enterprise crew. -CP

chillblaine said...

Cigarette smoking killed Spock? It seems so illogical.

He only needed to hang on a few more years until his head could have been grafted onto a shiny new body.

Johanna Lapp said...

Kirk surely meant well in his eulogy: "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

But isn't that like calling a half-black man "just as good as a white man?"

I found it offensive. At age 10.

traditionalguy said...

I heard on NPR that Nimoy was Jewish. So he did take life seriously. RIP friend.

Pawtampa said...

Dif-Tor heh smusma...

Phil 314 said...

Interesting that the character that was supposed emotionless and based only on logic generates such heartfelt responses.

Jimmy said...

Live long and prosper. Origins of the famous hand gesture according to Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiWkWcR86I#t=255

Original Mike said...

"He's dead, Jim."

Mostly dead or all dead? Because I've seen Star Trek III, and I'm thinking he's just mostly dead.

Irene said...

Nimoy's photography: The Full Body Project.

RonF said...

So now we know what those bright spots on Ceres are that have been puzzling astronomers. It's his ride home!

Fred Drinkwater said...

Crap. I'm old.
I used to go to my neighbor's house to watch ST-TOS in COLOR! omg! (Plus, you could CHANGE THE CHANNEL by shaking a handful of change. WTF!?)
Meanwhile, their father was never home, since he was working at a company on Page Mill Road.
Even odds on which situation changed the world more...

furious_a said...

One of the Sunday flicks at Stanford was "The Wrath of Khan". Throughout the movie it was like 700 people doing MST3K simultaneously. We all settled down during the battle in the nebula and, during Spock's death agony, went dead silent. When he died the silence dragged on for maybe ten more seconds. Then someone up in the balcony shattered the silence screaming SPOOOOOOOCK!!!, and we all broke up in what sounded like nervous laughter. Mine, at least.

True story.