RIP Leonard Nimoy

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Bev Vincent

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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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0
 

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GNTLGNT

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...oh god, this hit me like a bag of sand in the gut...I knew he had been suffering from COPD, but hadn't heard it was end-stage...****, ****, ****!!...I'm just sick, he, DeForrest Kelly and Jimmy Doohan WERE Star Trek for me...so many re-runs and movies over the years-and they whetted my Sci-Fi appetite as a young man...I just don't know how to wrap the words around the actual sense of loss I feel...but I shall attempt to follow his words following the destruction of Vulcan...after all, it's only....logical.......I need everyone to continue performing admirably.

 

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...oh god, this hit me like a bag of sand in the gut...I knew he had been suffering from COPD, but hadn't heard it was end-stage...****, ****, ****!!...I'm just sick, he, DeForrest Kelly and Jimmy Doohan WERE Star Trek for me...so many re-runs and movies over the years-and they whetted my Sci-Fi appetite as a young man...I just don't know how to wrap the words around the actual sense of loss I feel...but I shall attempt to follow his words following the destruction of Vulcan...after all, it's only....logical.......I need everyone to continue performing admirably.

Well said, GNT, well said.
RIP Leonard Nimoy.
 

skimom2

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Hurts my heart. He was one of my first mind crushes--I was just fascinated by him when my dad watched Star Trek. Wanted to BE him--I remember getting in fights in second grade because I wanted to be Spock when we played Star Trek and the boys made me be Uhura.
 

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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.