Leonard Nimoy Appreciation Thread

[Nuclear Unicorn]

[Initech]

1. Live long and prosper, Spock!

[NYC_SKP]

2. No Sex Threads!!!

[bananas]

46. A friend of mine was in Equus with him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_%28play%29

[niyad]

3. . . .

[Stargleamer]

4. He also was fun to watch when he played Sherlock Holmes. . .

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]

5. I remember a scene in the Trek movie set in SF (IV?)

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]

7. This

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]

73. I remember the "remember where we parked" line, and the fact that few people paid

any attention to them--this is, after all, san francisco.

[BumRushDaShow]

76. And because of that line, I made sure I visited Golden Gate Park

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]

77. well, it was, after all, SF

[BumRushDaShow]

79. Yup, and the trip also included

watching protestors outside of the Taco Bell across from my hotel who had paraded there with a full band of horns and drums.

[niyad]

80. did you get video?

[BumRushDaShow]

81. Unfortunately no

This was back in 2003 before I got a decent digital camera that could do video,

[niyad]

83. oh, darn. at least you have the memories.

[BumRushDaShow]

85. Yeah - have some pics

(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]

86. thank you for that pic--I know what you mean about the weather. a friend just got back

from SF--to LOTS of snow here.

[3catwoman3]

88. My favorite Star Trek...

...movie.

[Whiskeytide]

6. \\ // .n/t

[leftynyc]

9. Rest in Peace, Mr. Spock

The original Star Trek series will forever remind me of my father (may he also rest in peace).

[Politicalboi]

10. He was also in Mission Impossible

He must have been real busy in the 60's.

[cyberswede]

44. The late James Shigeta is in that clip, too.

He died last year.

for both

[mountain grammy]

49. I just realized that at the Oscars..

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]

11. ...

[cyberswede]

12. From "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

[Whiskeytide]

22. Is that Col. Klink...

... in the opening frames? I never saw that clip.

[cyberswede]

39. Yes...Werner Klemperer

without his monocle! lol

[hifiguy]

43. John "Sergeant Schultz" Banner was also

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]

47. I didn't know that.

I loved Hogans Heroes when I was a kid.

[whistler162]

62. Robert Clary survived a Nazi concentration camp

[Whiskeytide]

57. I remember reading...

... 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]

60. They all loved playing the Germans as nincompoops.

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]

94. I loved Sergeant Schultz!

[DeSwiss]

31. And Get Smart!

[cyberswede]

42. How did I miss that? I thought I'd seen them all.

Thanks for posting! Love the briefcase!

[mountain grammy]

56. Thanks for posting.. love it! I remember this, I swear I do.

[turbinetree]

36. Thanks

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
clap:

[progressoid]

13. A couple more fans...

[CreekDog]

34. Thanks for posting that, I love it

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]

14. He was a gift

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]

15. I always liked his voice work in the Sid Meier game, Civilization IV. n/t

[jeff47]

19. Quoting Sputnik made me laugh out loud.

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]

16. I love the original Series as much

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]

17. ...

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Leonard was a nice man and a fine actor. I met him a couple of times, the fist time when I was

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]

20. My first foray into activism

was writing a letter to the network when it was rumored that Star Trek would be cancelled

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. ...

[awoke_in_2003]

23. He brought enjoyment...

to my life many times.

[2naSalit]

24. He was my favorite part

of Star Trek from the very first episode.

[LVZ]

25. Many of the advancements of the last 50 years started with Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy

[liberal N proud]

26. What is strange sense? Emotion?

It is not logical.

RIP Mr. Sock.

[Motown_Johnny]

27. You can never find a Genesis Device when you need one!

Peace, and Eternal Life

[stage left]

28. I was crazy about Star Trek

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]

52. MLK persuaded Nichelle Nichols to stay as Uhura

Although "ordered" might be more accurate..

http://planetwaves.net/news/daily-astrology/martin-luther-king-mlk-uhura-nichelle-nichols/

[stage left]

65. what a great story!

I think Star Trek helped those who watched it and loved it look at a lot of things differently.

[Fumesucker]

66. In due course we truly will all be as one...

It's only logical.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218184613

[blkmusclmachine]

29. Live long and prosper

[blkmusclmachine]

30. Pic URL: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/a/ab/Spock_hand.jpg

[cab67]

32. Nimoy was such an important part of my youth.

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]

33. Leonard...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. one of my faves.......

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]

37. I love Nimoy, but that song is HORRID!

This one's better.

Live long and prosper.

[tavernier]

38. So glad Big Bang included him

in so many episodes. Brought back many smiles. Sheldon will be inconsolable.

He did live long and we prospered from it.

[bayareaboy]

40. I do Jigsaw puzzles once in a while...

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]

41. President Obama on Leonard Nimoy's passing

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 Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s 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 – it’s 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]

45. Nimoy busted by Perry Mason (1963)

In The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe, Nimoy, who starred in Trek as Spock, Kirk’s straightforward, logical, and pointy-eared first officer, portrayed an emotionally volatile and theatening young hood named Pete Channery.

[p]Perry Mason boldly goes…

[hifiguy]

48. When I was a teenager I discovered Star Trek TOS

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]

50. his passing hurts my heart

RIP

[chknltl]

51. George Takei remembers Leanard Nimoy link

links to CNN (and a commercial first.)
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/02/27/wolf-bpr-nimoy-dies-george-takei.cnn

[Fumesucker]

53. Kelley Freas painted my avatar, he also painted the Star Trek characters, including Spock of course

[cyberswede]

54. From Bonanza

[cyberswede]

55. From Gunsmoke

[mountain grammy]

58. Loving every thread and post.. it's so hard to let him go.

[Number23]

59. He also hosted In Search Of which used to FREAK ME THE HELL OUT when I was a kid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)

[alarimer]

64. I use to watch that and believe it.

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]

67. That show taught me about death.

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]

95. The episode on haunted castles scared the shit out of me.

[cyberswede]

61. I love the candid shots in Star Trek uniforms

...or without uniforms.

[whistler162]

63. Will always remember him as the Great Paris

from Mission Impossible and that other TV show he worked on somethign to do with space.

[Brigid]

68. Exchange from "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" that always cracked me up:

Gillian: Are you sure you won't change your mind?
Spock: Is there something wrong with the one I have?

[NewJeffCT]

74. A lot of great lines from that movie

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]

91. "What does it mean, 'exact change'?'"

[NewJeffCT]

92. and, of course, the classic

"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]

93. How could I forget that one?

[LiberalElite]

69. .

[Tsiyu]

70. ...

"kitteh, you must boldly go..."

[IcyPeas]

71. Leonard Nimoy - - strangely drawn to cats:

[cascadiance]

82. That black cat looks like mine that passed away a couple of years ago at 19 1/2 years...

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]

84. so sorry to hear about your job. hope you find an even better one very soon.

I still miss all my babies.

[Gothmog]

72. Live long and prosper

[NewJeffCT]

75. Some great stuff from Nichelle Nichols

including Nimoy standing up for equal pay for her.

http://www.people.com/article/leonard-nimoy-death-nichelle-nichols?xid=rss-topheadlines

[BumRushDaShow]

78. Haven't seen "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" mentioned

but I remember him in this (late-70s remake) version -

[cascadiance]

87. Let's not forget how Star Trek and Nimoy helped us visualize a BETTER future down the road!

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]

89. I also thought he was great in his Columbo episode.

[3catwoman3]

90. I have never written any fan fiction...

...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.