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

[MissMillie]

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

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RIP, Mr. Spock.

[Coventina]

1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[BlueCaliDem]

2. RIP, Mr. Spock. eom

[BronxBoy]

3. RIP

[niyad]

4. so sad to hear

[Archae]

5. And no Genesis Wave to bring him back.

[HoosierCowboy]

16. It's Okay

Sheldon Cooper has his DNA on a table napkin. We'll just clone him.

[yallerdawg]

6. He lived long and prospered.

Thank you, Leonard Nimoy.

[Hissyspit]

13. That he did.

[marym625]

7. sad news

[Bosonic]

8. That's sad news

His last tweet:

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

23 Feb 2015

https://twitter.com/therealnimoy/status/569762773204217857

[calimary]

51. Great post, Bosonic.

Fabulous photo! We still have George Takei.

[mountain grammy]

68. Yes, we do, may he live a very long time.

[progressoid]

58. Lovely.

[Historic NY]

9. Sad...I just saw this and

I'm sitting here drinking coffee from one of his cups....

[PADemD]

10. RIP

[KamaAina]

11. Not logical.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Ummmm, totally logical

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Here comes the Star Trek marathon.

[calimary]

52. Sure beats a whole helluva lot that's on TV already.

Bring it on.

[DeadLetterOffice]

12. ...

[truthisfreedom]

14. Goodbye Mr Spock.

You were my childhood hero.

[Gothmog]

17. May he rest in peace

[BumRushDaShow]

18. UGGGGGHH

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]

19. A sad day

The effects of smoking even through he quit in 1980's is what took Mr Spock away from us.

[malthaussen]

20. There is only one thing to say:

Alas, poor Spock. I knew him, Horatio.

-- Mal

[mountain grammy]

70. Thanks, enjoyed that!

[FailureToCommunicate]

101. That was...bizarre. But thanks. Show biz I guess.

[onehandle]

21. Thanks, Big Tobacco.

RIP.

[ashling]

22. That is illogical

RIP

[Agnosticsherbet]

23. Ha'makom yenahem etkhem betokh she'ar avelei Tziyonvi'Yerushalayim

[Pathwalker]

24. May you now go boldly to the great beyond,

you will be greatly missed by us mere earthlings.

[rdking647]

25. RIP Mr Spock

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[TNNurse]

66. I saw elsewhere

That people were planning on watching this in his memory. I am pretty sure that I could not get through it.

[bedazzled]

107. we watched "the voyage home"

with the whales
it's funny, and he directed it!

[dixiegrrrrl]

67. awww man.......that was appropriate clip

Spock and the Enterprise crew was such a HUGE part of our lives for so long...

sigh...

[countryjake]

90. Thank you for posting that...

[EEO]

26. Holy Fuck.

This is very sad.

[Earth_First]

27. Rest in Peace, Mr. Spock

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[kimbutgar]

28. i just saw him on Being Takai. He was such a different person than his Spock character

RIP Leonard you will be missed, peace be with you in your journey.

[CanonRay]

29. Live long and prosper

[IcyPeas]

30. oh no.

this news is a kick in the stomach.

[Jamastiene]

31. RIP

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. :'(

[Android3.14]

33. Thank you for your work

One of my favorite characters and actors.

[DeSwiss]

34. ....

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[cyberswede]

35. He was great.

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]

106. he was also in an episode of twilight zone

it was a good one...about world war ii

[TexasProgresive]

36. He will be missed, but I will see him Saturday night.

We can use a little bit of Vulcan logic in our politicians.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

37. #RIPSpock

[NV Whino]

38. R.I.P. Mr Spock

Thanks for the many enjoyable moments on and off the Enterprise.

[Aristus]

39. Spock is dead. Long live Spock.

[CherokeeDem]

40. I am devastated...

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]

41. I Grew Up with Star Trek

It debuted on my birthday (won't tell you which birthday).

As T'Pau said, "I grieve with thee."

[sdfernando]

42. Oh man!!!

Sad sad day. I knew it would be coming but still so sad to see him go.

Live Long and Prosper Spock.

[lordsummerisle]

43. RIP

[turbinetree]

44. Jim

Jim, you are and always have been my friend, live long and prosper

[longship]

45. RIP, Mr. Spock!

R&K

[Sinistrous]

46. My sympathies to his family, friends, and legions of fans.

He gave us all so much enjoyment.

[Humanist_Activist]

47. ...

[calimary]

48. :(

Miss him already.

Damn. That's Scotty, Bones, Sarek of Vulcan, and now Spock.

Fly high and prosper, Mr. Nimoy.

[Triana]

49. . . .

[Duval]

50. RIP, Leonard Nimoy. nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

53. Dif-tor heh smusma!

“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 wasn’t such a bad thing, he discovered. “Given the choice,” he wrote, “if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock.”

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

54. So bummed. RIP Mr. Spock - see ya on the other side.

[SamKnause]

55. RIP

You will be missed.

You lived long and prospered.

[KeepItReal]

56. Rest in Peace, Mr. Nimoy

[RoccoR5955]

57. RIP

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]

59. It is logical to accept

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]

60. “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ” .....

...and may the journey never end.

[CatWoman]

61. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sunlei]

62. He sent us a last message

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

Leonard Nimoy 1:36am 2/23/15

[LiberalLovinLug]

63. RIP Leonard

[Jack Rabbit]

64. Live Long and Prosper, Spock

[Divernan]

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!

[Beacool]

109. Lovely story.

I bet the kids never forgot meeting him.

[Liberal Veteran]

69. You will be missed. -nt

[Half-Century Man]

71. I feel like I've been kicked in the chest.

Sleep well in the eternal night good sir.

[Blue_Tires]

72. r.i.p.

[Diclotican]

73. MissMillie

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]

74. A short tale from him from years ago

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]

75. We Grokked Spock.

Fair Winds and G#dspeed, Mr. Nimoy.

[MADem]

76. His father owned a barbershop in Mattapan.

He was a Boston boy! RIP, Spock! Too young to go--if his lungs were't problematic, he would have lasted longer.

[countryjake]

77. A Visit to a Sad Planet

Peace, Mr. Nimoy

[meti57b]

78. May his memory be for a blessing.

זיכרונה לברכה

[Hekate]

104. Got it in one. And it will be. nt

[Warpy]

79. I saw him in a summer stock production of "Fiddler on the Roof"

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]

80. one of my favorites

may he travel the stars.

[romanic]

81. R.I.P. :(

.

[Doctor_J]

82. in his honor Mrs doctor j and I will tonight watch Zombies of the Stratosphere in its

entirety. YouTube has the entire Commando Cody library

[xocet]

83. requiescat in pace Mr. Nimoy

[Delphinus]

84. ...

RIP

[blkmusclmachine]

85. Sad.

[Dont call me Shirley]

86. Leonard...

[Behind the Aegis]

87. ....

Shalom.

[Enthusiast]

88. This is a bummer.

[Optical.Catalyst]

89. Peace be with you Mr. Nimoy

[father founding]

91. Light up on the screen, movie stars

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]

92. A sad day.

Here is checking out the dailies, old school, before digital cameras:

[whistler162]

93. Rip really enjoyed him in

Mission Impossible and that other show.

[PSPS]

94. PDL257

Here he is in front of his 1964 Buick Riviera in the Desilu parking lot during shooting.

[allan01]

95. live long and prosper. silent key

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[scarletwoman]

96. A good and decent man and a life well-lived.

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]

97. RIP, Mr. Spock ....

[Unknown Beatle]

98. RIP Mr. Nimoy

[cascadiance]

99. Was "pure energy" when this song was made... Now "pure energy" in reality too! Sigh!

[countryjake]

103. That's a beautiful story...

Thank you for sharing it, FreedomRain.

[Arthur_Frain]

102. He's dead, Jim!

[Bosonic]

105. NASA salutes 'Star Trek' icon Leonard Nimoy

NASA salutes 'Star Trek' icon Leonard Nimoy

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]

110. That was classy and cool.

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]

108. Sad news.

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]

111. I'll miss Leonard Nimoy.

Captain Spock is an icon, but more than that, Leonard Nimoy was a very nice person.