Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
Source: New York Times
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut Star Trek, died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.
His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mr. Nimoy announced last year that he had the disease, which he attributed to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0
RIP, Mr. Spock.
Coventina
(27,160 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)niyad
(113,524 posts)Archae
(46,340 posts)HoosierCowboy
(561 posts)Sheldon Cooper has his DNA on a table napkin. We'll just clone him.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Thank you, Leonard Nimoy.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)His last tweet:
23 Feb 2015
https://twitter.com/therealnimoy/status/569762773204217857
calimary
(81,431 posts)Fabulous photo! We still have George Takei.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)progressoid
(49,996 posts)Historic NY
(37,452 posts)I'm sitting here drinking coffee from one of his cups....
PADemD
(4,482 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,577 posts)Yeah, I know what you mean.
Here comes the Star Trek marathon.
calimary
(81,431 posts)Bring it on.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,152 posts)You were my childhood hero.
Gothmog
(145,486 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,353 posts)I remember seeing the article of him being rushed to the hospital just a day or two ago.
R.I.P. and condolences to his family.
Was fortunate to get to meet him and get his autograph at a convention in the area about 12 years ago.
Live long and prosper.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)The effects of smoking even through he quit in 1980's is what took Mr Spock away from us.
malthaussen
(17,215 posts)Alas, poor Spock. I knew him, Horatio.
-- Mal
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)RIP.
ashling
(25,771 posts)RIP
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)you will be greatly missed by us mere earthlings.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)[link:
|TNNurse
(6,929 posts)That people were planning on watching this in his memory. I am pretty sure that I could not get through it.
bedazzled
(1,767 posts)with the whales
it's funny, and he directed it!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Spock and the Enterprise crew was such a HUGE part of our lives for so long...
sigh...
countryjake
(8,554 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)This is very sad.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)RIP Leonard you will be missed, peace be with you in your journey.
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)this news is a kick in the stomach.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)One of my favorite characters and actors.
DeSwiss
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cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I loved him as Spock, but also in Mission Impossible, and I just saw him as the murderer in an episode of Columbo on Netflix.
bedazzled
(1,767 posts)it was a good one...about world war ii
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)We can use a little bit of Vulcan logic in our politicians.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Thanks for the many enjoyable moments on and off the Enterprise.
Aristus
(66,438 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)Star Trek fueled my young imagination to obtain a degree in science and now to write science fiction.
I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Nimoy at a small Star Trek con.... a few fans were lucky to spend about twenty minutes with him. He was kind, gracious, funny, warm... a true gentleman.
RIP Mr. Nimoy... you will always be Mr. Spock in our hearts.
Leith
(7,813 posts)It debuted on my birthday (won't tell you which birthday).
As T'Pau said, "I grieve with thee."
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)Sad sad day. I knew it would be coming but still so sad to see him go.
Live Long and Prosper Spock.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)turbinetree
(24,710 posts)Jim, you are and always have been my friend, live long and prosper
longship
(40,416 posts)R&K
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)He gave us all so much enjoyment.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)calimary
(81,431 posts)Miss him already.
Damn. That's Scotty, Bones, Sarek of Vulcan, and now Spock.
Fly high and prosper, Mr. Nimoy.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)To this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior, Mr. Nimoy wrote years after the original series ended.
But that wasnt such a bad thing, he discovered. Given the choice, he wrote, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)SamKnause
(13,108 posts)You will be missed.
You lived long and prospered.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Though I first saw Mr. Nimoy as Spock, and was an enormous fan of Star Trek from the beginning (my parents let me stay up late to watch it) in later years I found that Leonard Nimoy was more than this one role. He was truly a great person.
Sincerest condolences to his loved ones.
Spock did live long, and prospered.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Then we all die, and that the people we admire will die, but yet, despite the logic, what makes us human is that we still feel the pain, because we realize that there is more to life and death then logic.
Nimoy has crossed into the Final Frontier. May he prosper.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)...and may the journey never end.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Leonard Nimoy 1:36am 2/23/15
LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)Back in the mid-70's, I took my 3 kids plus a neighbor kid to hear him speak at the University of Pittsburgh. Afterwards we went to the University book store where he was signing copies of his book of poems. The kids were over the moon at seeing him in person, in no small part because they'd watched the Star Trek series while we were living in Rockledge, FL and their Dad was working on Project Apollo at the Cape.
The line inched forward and then I was taking a picture of all 4 kids with him, using a Kodak camera with a flash cube tower. The tower popped off, and went under the settee on which Nimoy was sitting. He immediately got down on his hands and knees to reach under the seat and retrieve the tower, handed it to me and waited for me to reassemble the camera and take the picture, with a very un-Spock like smile. What a kind and gentle man!
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I bet the kids never forgot meeting him.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Sleep well in the eternal night good sir.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)MissMillie
Leonard Nimoy is maybe dead - but he will always be remembered as mr Spook of Vulcan in Star Trek - and that alone is not a little legacy to have.. He are now on the final frontier - where we all will go when our time is up here.. And to have a legacy as he have is not the worst way to die..
Diclotican
ps, I suspect a marathon of the Star Trek movies and series - from the TOS to Enterprise are on the horisont for me....
IDemo
(16,926 posts)He said he'd been waiting for a pedestrian crossing light and pulled out a flip-phone and opened it up to answer a call, and the guy next to him burst out laughing.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)Fair Winds and G#dspeed, Mr. Nimoy.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He was a Boston boy! RIP, Spock! Too young to go--if his lungs were't problematic, he would have lasted longer.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Peace, Mr. Nimoy
meti57b
(3,584 posts)זיכרונה לברכה
Hekate
(90,773 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)a decade after he thought he'd left Spock far behind. Once I'd gotten over the shock of a skinny Tevye, I had to admit he carried it off well, both the drama and the comedy.
Still, Spock is who he will be best remembered for, a cold, emotionless prick of a character that managed to endear himself to us all by portraying the cluelessness we've all felt from time to time, especially if we're socially inept introverts and/or geeks.
Nimoy did live long and prosper, and died a well loved man. The world is a sadder place without him.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)may he travel the stars.
romanic
(2,841 posts).
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)entirety. YouTube has the entire Commando Cody library
xocet
(3,871 posts)Delphinus
(11,840 posts)RIP
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)Shalom.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Optical.Catalyst
(1,355 posts)father founding
(619 posts)And end up like Spock, its not worth the extra few dollars the studios are paying you, , when their Gumba's in NC are paying them billions.
hunter
(38,324 posts)Here is checking out the dailies, old school, before digital cameras:
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Mission Impossible and that other show.
PSPS
(13,609 posts)Here he is in front of his 1964 Buick Riviera in the Desilu parking lot during shooting.
allan01
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scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)What a gift he was to the rest of us!
A good journey to you, Mr. Nimoy! You will be long remembered and loved.
AikenYankee
(135 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)cascadiance
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countryjake
(8,554 posts)Thank you for sharing it, FreedomRain.
Arthur_Frain
(1,855 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) honored the late "Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy on Saturday, saying he helped inspire future scientists around the world.
Nimoy's calculated Mr. Spock character in the series and subsequent films "served as an inspiration to generations of scientists, engineers and sci-fi fans around the world," the agency said Saturday, posting to its website a photo of the Vulcan hand salute that is out of this world.
Nimoy, who died Friday at 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to multiple reports, was honored by the agency in an ethereal photo of the bright blue earth captured by NASA astronaut Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station:
NASA notes that Nimoy's hometown of Boston, Mass., is visible in the photo.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/234222-nasa-salutes-star-trek-icon-leonard-nimoy
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Actors who have played iconic roles have influenced people in ways that they may never have fully realized. I once heard Kate Mulgrew tell the story of being invited to the WH by Hillary Clinton, who was the first lady at the time, to attend a conference of women scientists. Kate told the crowd that's they were the real thing while she was just an actress playing a role. Several of them responded that they went into the field of science after watching her portray the first woman to captain a starship (Captain Janeway had been a science officer before switching to command).
Beacool
(30,250 posts)He was a fine actor and a mentor to many up and coming actors. My condolences to his wife and family. May he rest in peace.
I have watched Star Trek since I was a child. Spock was one of my favorites. I have continued to watch the series on MeTV. I also watched The Next Generation with Patrick Stewart as captain Picard and Voyager with Kate Mulgrew as captain Janeway. Loved them all.
Mr. Nimoy will be missed.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Captain Spock is an icon, but more than that, Leonard Nimoy was a very nice person.