RIP Leonard Nimoy

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Scratch

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My first memory of any TV show ever had Nimoy as a young lawyer defending a robot accused of murder on an episode of Outer Limits called "I, Robot". It preceeded Asimovs version but was itself the progeny of the Adam Link stories published in Amazing Stories magazine of the late 30's which I collect. Nimoy lost the case in an homage to Frankenstein mob type fear but was proven right in the end as the robot, being led away in chains, broke free and obeyed it's prime directive by saving the life of a young girl while giving it's own to an oncoming truck.

That was years before Star Trek and it won't mean a thing to anyone else but I remembered every detail of the show and I must have been about 3 or 4. One of the reasons I read Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, Poulson, Matheson, Bloch, Pohl, Herbert, Bester, and dozens of others including King is because my imagination was kindled by such shows. I will miss him for his roles as Spock and Bellie and for being a part of my love of science fiction in general. My brother used to call me Spock in a derogatory way because I insisted everything had a logical reason for being. It did and I never took being called "Spock" as a perjorative. Spock was right. Goodnight Mr. Nimoy.
 

skimom2

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blunthead

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GNTLGNT

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This is tough.

In the Star Trek original series, the episode "Requiem for Methuselah," they found a guy who had been immortal on earth. He went from culture to culture and in fact had done a number of notable things, inventor, composer, statesman, in his various guises.

After the confrontations and drama, it turned out that the guy, living on the planet and away from Earth, was now living a normal life and would die naturally. Spock said, "On that day, I shall mourn."

As a teenager, dissatisfied with many of the ways of my fellow humans, not to mention being terminally shy and socially awkward, much of my life philosophy found a home with the words of that logic-based alien, who provided the show's overview of us as humans. And Leonard Nimoy carried that forth splendidly.

Today, I mourn.
....beautifully stated my friend, just beautiful...
 

Mr Nobody

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It's taken me a while to process this. I'd known he was ill for a while - you could tell even in some of his Fringe performances - but hadn't heard about his recent hospitalization, nor had I read or heard about his death until, last night, Becky called out "You didn't tell me Leonard Nimoy had died!"
It felt like someone had just given me a shot around the head with a sock full of ball-bearings.
It wasn't anything like the same sort of shock that Robin Williams' death was, but it was more than enough to knock the wind out of my sails. I've been a Trek fan for about as long as I can remember (and that's a pretty long time; I can remember things - events, certain sights and smells - from a time before I could even speak properly or frame what I saw into a proper context). Of all the characters on the show, Spock was the one I found most interesting - "fascinating", even - and he remained, and remains, a firm favourite and, IMO, the best/most Vulcan of them all.
Later, as I found out bits and bobs about Mr Nimoy himself, he seemed to be a gentle man, with both wisdom and wit, yet who wasn't afraid to laugh at himself. From what I've seen from other posts, and read in obituaries and the messages from people who knew him, it seems my appraisal wasn't too far from the truth. The response to the bullied girl, the ad and the content of what proved to be his final 'tweet' all show the calibre of the man, and what is now lost. But what a legacy he leaves behind. Not only is Spock an iconic character, but the way he was portrayed inspired generations of people, causing them to go into the sciences, or even just question themselves and their existing values to test if they were 'logical' or not. What a difference he made, to so many.
RIP, sir, and thanks.
 

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