Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

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65. To wish that he were immortal would be illogical.

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!