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Leonard Nimoy Dies!

Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 1 month ago to Entertainment
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I'm a huge Star Trek fan. Bummer.

Jimmy Doohan (Scotty),
DeForest Kelly (McCoy),
Gene Roddenberry, and
Majel Barrett (Nurse Chappell, and Gene Roddenberry's wife)
all gone.
Kirk, Sulu and Uhura soldiering on.

Just love this recent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkA...
SOURCE URL: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/star-trek-star-leonard-nimoy-dies-83/story?id=29274628


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  • Posted by standeyo 9 years, 1 month ago
    Spock is gone from our lives here, but it was just his body not his "Katra." ;-)

    It marks the passing of an age where mankind began to reach for the stars without a trans-dimensional gate (tower of Babel).

    It is a little like losing a a life-long friend...

    I don't know if you knew this but the Vulcan hand sign was introduced to the program by Nimoy. As a youth when he was in synagogue he peeked when the kohen gadol (high priest in name only... normally a rabbi) was making the blessing over the congregation and saw the rabbi's hands spread apart over them with both hands making that sign... the sign of the Hebrew letter "sheen" and "seen". In that context the letter meant "El Shaddai" or Almighty God on the one hand and "HaShekinah" the glory of God on the other.

    (That letter looks identical in both versions but a small dot over either the right or the left side of the letter makes it one form or the other. So, one form is on the right hand of the rabbi and the other on the left to encompass all of the congregation. With just one hand it could be viewed as an invitation to join with the person as a friend.)

    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salu...
    "With her left hand and respect..." (The literal Hebrew above this image) from Proverbs 3:16 "Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor." (hence long life and prosperity.)" Here the word "her" refers to wisdom.

    Live long and prosper, fellow Trekkers
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 1 month ago
    Sad News... Few remain.
    Walter Koenig - Chekov also still lives.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 1 month ago
      And Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and the engaging and flamboyant George Takai (Sulu).
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      • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 1 month ago
        A really good friend met her last fall at a lounge at the airport. He said she is wonderful! He's also a huge Trek fan.
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        • Posted by $ 9 years, 1 month ago
          I heard she was very nice as well. Shatner is probably the most ostentatious. Jimmy Doohan was definitely cool. I find George Takai hilarious.

          Just got a new version of the Enterprise Blueprints and the Star Trek Technical Manual for Xmas (childhood ones lost over time).
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          • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 1 month ago
            Very very cool gifts. :-)
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            • Posted by $ 9 years, 1 month ago
              Well, being an engineer with an extended family of lawyers, nurses and a doctor, the "geek" blood doesn't run very deep. I have to fix all their computers and appliances after all. Therefore, the gifts were selections from my Amazon Wish List, but they are so cool.
              Shocking how much thought went into these things 40-50 years ago!

              BTW, being an artist, you may appreciate the bottle of Sauran Brandy that "bad Kirk" carried around in Mirror Mirror, the episode with the alternate Spock with a beard. It was a bottle with a curved neck and a leather wrap with a handle. This prop was just an George Dickel Whiskey bottle with the leather painted orange. I had to have one, and grabbed it off eBay for ~$30. The Sauran Brandy recipes can be found online as well!
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          • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 1 month ago
            Friend of mine has been forwarding me some of GT's FB posts over the past few years, turns out he actually knows the guy and says he is one of the most genuinely likeable people he has ever met.
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  • Posted by Austexk 9 years ago
    George Takei and Nichelle Nichols are dear friends I've know for decades...both talented performers, good souls and, like my dear Gene Roddenberry (who created Spock) and Leonard (who brought him to life) they are worldwide heroes. Lucky us...heroes are not common.
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  • Posted by Austexk 9 years ago
    I have known Leonard more than 30 years. We met at a STAR TREK con in LA when I was publishing STARLOG, the science fiction magazine I created with my partner Norm Jacobs. Leonard invited me to breakfast at his home, and over the years we had many wonderful times together. When I moved from Manhattan to Hollywood in 2001, I enjoyed my final lunch at Gotham Restaurant with Leonard -- the perfect way to say farewell to my favorite city. Leonard was a passional soul who wrote several books of poetry -- quite a contrast to the character of pure logic that Gene Roddenberry created and Leonard brought to life. He will be missed by millions worldwide, not just by Trekkies, and I will miss him as long as I live. Kerry O'Quinn
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    • Posted by $ 9 years ago
      Your are quite fortunate indeed. I am jealous, but shouldn't be since I did nothing to earn a breakfast with Nimoy. Seems you've made quite the contributions! Thank you.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 1 month ago
    One of my fondest memories is seeing Nimoy on stage in his one-man show, "Vincent", during his "I am not Spock" phase. The power of his acting made me forget, intermittently, that this was not, in fact, Spock but the brilliant actor who had created an iconic character that had won him immortality in fact and fiction and had made logical thinking a virtue.

    And when Spock's body was rescued and reunited with his spirit that had been stored inside McCoy, it was the completing half of the equation: "Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many." Thank you, Leonard. Thank you, Gene.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago
    I love that video. It is iconic.

    I really missed that Interstellar did not go in the direction of the Star Trek universe. That sounds contradictory, let me explain: I had hoped that Interstellar would be an entry point into an optimistic, pro-science, pro-futurist fictional universe that was not actually fettered to Star Trek, except philosophically. We could watch Terrans get off the earth, explore nearby planets, gain some experience in dealing with other life forms, and...eventually...meet aliens.

    Instead, when the opening reviews came back that Interstellar had been a touchy-feely, irrational, global warming movie, I cancelled my plans to attend.

    I miss Star Trek. I watched it from its 3rd episode on (with my father). Like Tolkien's works, Star Trek has succeeded in creating a modern mythology that has shaped our expectations.

    Jan, wants to be an elf. in space.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 1 month ago
      I was similarly hoping Interstellar would be a beginning rather than a loop, which did surprise me.
      However, I did find it cerebral, and not too patronizing about global warming-ish-ness. It was a blight that hosed the Earth, not man-made or self inflicted, right? Also, I did see a spark of opening a door, when they alluded to 4th dimensional beings communicating with us through the hyper-cube room they made for the father to communicate with his daughter. However, I doubt there will be a sequel where we make contact with the 4th dimensional beings, since this one was a bit much for most people.
      Maybe I'm just too much an optimist....Love the "Elf in Space" note!
      It would be interesting to know how many of us Gulchers also call themselves Trekies! Another posting?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 1 month ago
    While most Trekkies wanted to be Kirk, the really aware ones wanted to be Spock. Goodbye Leonard, you gave us more than most, and even ended it with good humor.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 1 month ago
      Not sure I want to be Spock. Awful lot of discipline involved. Sure wouldn't suck to have inner eyelids, great strength and telepathic abilities though.

      It is interesting that McCoy was supposed to highlight Kirk's emotional side, and Spock was supposed to highlight his intellectual side. However, any retrospective Trekie sees that with age, and an older, loosened-up Spock. It was all in there.
      I was a child during the original series, but I hear that girls were in love with Nimoy's Spock, seeking to draw out the human in him.
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  • Posted by thetuxcat 9 years ago
    "Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many."
    Yes, He was one of us. Never forget "live long and prosper".
    Loved him and John Wayne, they made me who I am.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 9 years ago
    I remember watching a 1964 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. called "The Project Strigas Affair". The episode cast included all three of these famous Jewish actors: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), and Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink).
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago
    First read a comment from a family member and used the phrase 'çhanging the parameters.' That got me thinking about Star Trek and the years of enjoyment of enjoyment. Then I see this posted way down in Central America. Like any good soldier I paused for a full minute. "They saw the future and presented it in so many ways.'

    The A Team of the entertainment industry whic has so many w, x y, and z's.


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  • Posted by radical 9 years ago
    At a philharmonic concert in Fresno, CA some years ago, Leonard Nemoy gave a 45 minute reading without even one missed pronunciation or correction. I'm glad I was there.
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