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(101,485 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)niyad
(118,979 posts)Stargleamer
(2,142 posts)I saw him at the Shubert Theater in L.A. when he played Sherlock Holmes. His last line was something about being logical, which got a BIG laugh from the audience.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Spock was wearing this long, flowing robe and sandals. Kirk explained to strangers that "he took too much LDS back in the '60s." Then they got on a Muni bus. Some kid in the back started blaring punk rock at maximum volume. So Spock got up and put the Vulcan death grip on him! The whole bus applauded.
BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)Nimoy's film was definitely loaded with running gags. In fact, it was STIV that got me on my determined journey to get to and tour around San Francisco over 10 years ago. I was there for a training course and ended up getting on every means of public transit to see Golden Gate Park, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio (where the fictional Star fleet Academy is located), and the Mission & Haight Districts. Worth every bus, trolley, trackless trolley, and MUNI ride.
niyad
(118,979 posts)any attention to them--this is, after all, san francisco.
BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)to try find find where they "parked" (although I know the ship was cloaked).
San Francisco - the place where I never expected to see a big empty billboard on top of a building near the Embarcadero and the Bay Bridge area that had "F**K BUSH" spray painted on it. It was huge and you couldn't miss it.
niyad
(118,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)watching protestors outside of the Taco Bell across from my hotel who had paraded there with a full band of horns and drums.
niyad
(118,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)This was back in 2003 before I got a decent digital camera that could do video,
niyad
(118,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)(from the Pacific side of the park - I saw the entrance of the park from Haight and then rode a bus over to the ocean side of it). Ironically, the pic was taken 12 years ago today too! I had left Philly back then with 8" snow on the ground from a recent storm and was welcomed there to low-70s during the day and mid-40s in the evening - in February! There were beds of tulips blooming all over.
niyad
(118,979 posts)from SF--to LOTS of snow here.
3catwoman3
(25,291 posts)...movie.
Whiskeytide
(4,496 posts)Response to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)
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leftynyc
(26,060 posts)The original Star Trek series will forever remind me of my father (may he also rest in peace).
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)He must have been real busy in the 60's.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)He died last year.
for both
mountain grammy
(27,144 posts)I fell in love with James Shigeta in Flower Drum Song. I was 13 and had a serious crush on him. Loved everything he did.
Indeed, we mourn them both.
hwmnbn
(4,285 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,496 posts)... in the opening frames? I never saw that clip.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)without his monocle! lol
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in an episode of UNCLE.
Banner, Klemperer, Leon Askin (Gen. Burkhalter) and Howard Caine (Maj. Hochstetter) were all Jewish, as was Robert Clary, who played Cpl. LeBeau.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I loved Hogans Heroes when I was a kid.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,496 posts)... that most of the "Germans" on the show were Jewish. Must have made playing their characters as they did that much more fun for them.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Werner Klemperer, who was the son of the great conductor Otto Klemperer, told the producers when he was cast as Klink that he would immediately quit the show if the Germans were ever portrayed as being competent. He didn't have much to worry about, as it happened. His most difficult task on the show was playing the violin out of tune, as he was a fine violinist IRL.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Thanks for posting! Love the briefcase!
mountain grammy
(27,144 posts)turbinetree
(25,180 posts)I remember this show, oops just shows my age now this is great.
Live long and prosper Leonard Nimoy, you have lived long in our hearts, and always will
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progressoid
(50,602 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)She was on Neil DeGrasse Tyson's "Startalk" Radio show the other night (on Sirius XM and I think his Startalk website as well).
Loved that interview. She's very special. She told Neil how she didn't really want the part and kept intending to depart the show, for the stage or other roles only to find herself at an NAACP meeting where she met Martin Luther King, Jr. and not only was he a fan of Star Trek, he told her that her role was very important.
All this after she'd told Roddenberry that she wanted to leave and he said that he wanted her to think about it before making a final decision.
And then she meets MLK in the intervening time, who apparently, changes her mind.
What an incredible thing.
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)strange and mysterious how an actor can touch so many hearts in so positive a way in bringing to life a fictional character.
...the most...human of souls
FSogol
(46,249 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)For those who don't know the game:
Every time your civilization invents a technology, a screen would pop up and Nemoy's voice would say something related to the technology. For example, you invent the internal combustion engine, and Nemoy reads a quote from E. B. White, "Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car."
So you've gone through much of the game with various meaningful and insightful quotes about the technology you invented. Then you invent satellites, and he quotes Sputnik: "Beep...Beep...Beep...Beep..."
yuiyoshida
(42,497 posts)As I love the NEXT Generation, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. By the way, I met Gene Roddenberry, I am told, when I was a baby. My father took me in the stroller to a Star Trek Convention at the Cow Palace.
ColesCountyDem
(6,944 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)a child at a wedding and then later in professional life. A most excellent person, an artist and a poet.
Also, a Mystery Guest.
central scrutinizer
(12,392 posts)was writing a letter to the network when it was rumored that Star Trek would be cancelled
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to my life many times.
2naSalit
(91,757 posts)of Star Trek from the very first episode.
LVZ
(938 posts)liberal N proud
(60,879 posts)It is not logical.
RIP Mr. Sock.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Peace, and Eternal Life
stage left
(3,009 posts)when it first aired beginning in 1966. Mr. Spock was my favorite character, closely followed by Mr. Sulu and Uhura. What I loved about the series was the idea that earth was a place united. There was even a Russian on the bridge of the Enterprise, and that was in the days when the cold war was pretty damned cold still.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Although "ordered" might be more accurate..
http://planetwaves.net/news/daily-astrology/martin-luther-king-mlk-uhura-nichelle-nichols/
stage left
(3,009 posts)I think Star Trek helped those who watched it and loved it look at a lot of things differently.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)It's only logical.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218184613
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)cab67
(3,197 posts)I was (and remain) a Trekkie, and I loved "In Search Of." Nimoy may be gone, but his impact on those of us who grew up watching him on TV will endure.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I loved him from the time star trek began.
He and ST were among the bright moments of childhood.
Mr. Nimoy, you touched so many....your new adventure must be beginning wonderfully. ❤
we miss you, here. Already.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)This one's better.
Live long and prosper.
tavernier
(13,164 posts)in so many episodes. Brought back many smiles. Sheldon will be inconsolable.
He did live long and we prospered from it.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)To get away from the computer and TV.
I got a Star Trek jigsaw with 600 pieces and put it together and it looked pretty cool with the Crew and all of the folks they had to deal with on their travels. It got glued up and I am framing it now and it will go on the wall soon.
NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Treks optimistic, inclusive vision of humanitys future.
I loved Spock.
In 2007, I had the chance to meet Leonard in person. It was only logical to greet him with the Vulcan salute, the universal sign for Live long and prosper. And after 83 years on this planet and on his visits to many others its clear Leonard Nimoy did just that. Michelle and I join his family, friends, and countless fans who miss him so dearly today.
http://comicbook.com/2015/02/27/president-obama-releases-statement-on-leonard-nimoys-passing/
ramblin_dave
(1,554 posts)In The Case of the Shoplifters Shoe, Nimoy, who starred in Trek as Spock, Kirks straightforward, logical, and pointy-eared first officer, portrayed an emotionally volatile and theatening young hood named Pete Channery.[p]Perry Mason boldly goes
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)It was on five nights a week on the local indy station. Mr. Spock was the first character I had ever seen on television or in a movie who was like me. I got my Asperger's DX more than thirty years later. Thank you, Mr Nimoy (and Mr Spock) for introducing me to myself.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)RIP
chknltl
(10,558 posts)links to CNN (and a commercial first.)
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/02/27/wolf-bpr-nimoy-dies-george-takei.cnn
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)mountain grammy
(27,144 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)alarimer
(16,466 posts)But it got me interested in skepticism when some of it just seemed too fantastic to be true.
I don't know whether he believed it or not; it was all pseudoscience. But it did freak me out, too, until I realized how bogus it was.
Number23
(24,544 posts)I'm serious.
I was watching an episode where they talked about the Two Princes, two little boys who vanished without a trace during the reign of Henry the Eighth, I think.
The did a re-enactment of the Two Princes and the two little boys they showed were about five and six and at the time, I was probably about 8. I remember thinking, "wow, those little boys are very likely dead. I'M going to die one day too" and then I had to go outside and take a walk to try to shake off the feeling of utter panic I got.
Bogus or not, that show gave me the heebies AND the jeebies.
cab67
(3,197 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...or without uniforms.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)from Mission Impossible and that other TV show he worked on somethign to do with space.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Gillian: Are you sure you won't change your mind?
Spock: Is there something wrong with the one I have?
NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)I think my brother and I used "And a double dumb ass on you" quite a few times over the next few years...
Then, when Spock questions him about his colorful metaphors, Kirk says it is in all the literature of the day, like Jacklyn Susann and another, and Spock goes, "ah, the Giants."
Brigid
(17,621 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)"nuclear wessels"
I lost the picture when I moved a few years ago and upgraded my phone, but I saw a ship docked in Puerto Rico with the name "WESSELS" on the back, and I took a picture of it thinking of Chekhov.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)"kitteh, you must boldly go..."
IcyPeas
(22,482 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I still miss her. Kind of added significance of him holding this kitteh... Hope my cat is "drawn" to Mr. Nimoy in the afterlife.
Spock passing away the day after I just lost my job. This week has been rough!
niyad
(118,979 posts)I still miss all my babies.
Gothmog
(153,634 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)including Nimoy standing up for equal pay for her.
http://www.people.com/article/leonard-nimoy-death-nichelle-nichols?xid=rss-topheadlines
BumRushDaShow
(140,314 posts)but I remember him in this (late-70s remake) version -
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Even with all of the battles with Klingons, Romulans, etc., it was the vision of Roddenberry, Nimoy and the rest of those who created this great show that through the years since it was part of our experience, that even with every apocalyptic scifi flick out there that warned us of doom and gloom, and didn't think positively for the future, that Star Trek was really a road map that helped influence so many over the years of the possible ways to have a unified planet in the future of many cultures, etc. having a collectively good future together on Earth.
That message I think is so needed in today's world now, with so many threats to everyone's existence, with climate change threats, global war and class battle tensions, the economy in the rut. It's hard for people to visualize a decent future now. We need to look back at the hope that Nimoy and others with Star Trek gave us that there is a better path there that is worth working towards. Let Leonard Nimoy be remembered as a key to that message being amplified and heard by so many that I think the world depends upon now!
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)3catwoman3
(25,291 posts)...but I used to fantasize about being the human woman who would break thru Spock's Vulcan reserve and have him follow in his father's footsteps by having a human wife.
You are already much missed Mr. Nimoy. I am, and will always be, a fan.