RIP Leonard Nimoy

@AttorneyMother, I’d never seen that car commercial. LOVED it! )

Y’all, to my right right now is a life-size cutout of Spock from The Final Frontier. Our office is “decorated” in Star Trek stuff. My 19yo just texted me to tell his dad that he’s sorry about Nimoy. I’m telling you … this is gonna crush dh. :frowning: I always have given him grief about his love of all things Star Trek, but the death of Spock, in particular, will make him incredibly sad.

My Star Trek dream was always that something would happen to Kirk and Spock would get to be the captain. I hated the episode where they showed him breaking under the strain of temporary command. BS!!! I loved the episodes where Spock got involved with women. B-) I had a major crush on him.

So sad

The Hollywood Reporter says: “For Spock, Nimoy invented the V-shaped Vulcan “Live Long and Prosper” hand gesture and the neck pinch that rendered his enemies unconscious. (He said he devised the latter move because he had grown tired of getting into staged fistfights. “Here’s a chance to cleverly avoid that,” he said in a 2000 interview with The Archive of American Television.)”

http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/leonard-nimoy

Um, no he didnt invent the priestly blessing with the open hand “V”. Its a few centuries older than that, used by the Kohan tribe of ancient Israel. http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2013/08/leonard-nimoy-mr-spock-and-the-priestly-blessing/

A link to his final tweet - http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoys-final-tweet-perfect

One of the comments has a Spock quote about death - “Accepting death - by understanding that every life comes to an end, when time demands it. Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted.” - Spock (I have no idea if it is an actual quote)

I had a major crush on him too, Consolation.

Was just reading that tweet in another article. Will think about it when planting this year’s garden…

I believe Nimoy clarified he adapted Spock’s greeting from the Jewish blessing. THR’s reporting was a general reference. Here’s Nimoy himself:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/100000003536154/nimoy-explains-origin-of-vulcan-greeting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Nice clip, attorneymother. The Article I linked was from a conversation with him as well, and about the history of his having selected the Kohanim blessing as the vulcan greeting. Love that he said people don’t realize they are blessing each other when they make the gesture.

AttorneyMother; yes, I recall hearing Nimoy say that in a TV interview years ago. I understand that he was raised in an orthodox Jewish household.

I read another interview where he said that the Spock character was partially based on Marvel’s submariner and I thought that was soooo coool.

I still get teared up in his “epitaph” speech" at the end of 'The Wrath of Khan."

He was also great in Fringe! Boy will he be missed : (…

I got DD interested in Trek when she was about 10. Now, at 18, she was so upset by the news that she called me at work and we talked for an hour.

I think Spock is a wonderful hero for anyone who has suffered alienation of any kind: racial, sexual, emotional, what have you. He is literally an alien surrounded by humans who do not always know how to relate to him. He is also half human, but feels obliged to keep that part of himself hidden. I daresay each of us has felt that way at least sometimes. A few of us feel that way a lot of the time. If Captain Kirk represents the kind of person we would like to be, Spock represents the person we happen to be – and he reminds us that it’s OK to be that kind of person.

Years ago, my D and I watched all the versions of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in one stretch. Leonard Nimoy was in the 1978 version, which was the first and (IMO) the best of the remakes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/

Quite a change from our beloved Mr. Spock.

As a star trek fan, I am saddened by the loss of Nimoy, without him the series would not have been as good as it was. I know that he himself had a love/hate relationship with the character of Spock (which I can understand), but I think large parts of the character seem to be based on who he was. I didn’t know about the Vulcan split finger greeting being from Jewish tradition, but it doesn’t surprise me, while from what I recall he wasn’t particularly observant, that he was deeply enmeshed in Jewish tradition and culture and had studied it.

While a lot of people knew him only as Spock, he was a lot deeper person than that. Besides his photography, he also was a big supporter of the arts, and a theater at Symphony Space in NYC bears his name (and my son has played there:) and he supported a number of arts groups and such. From people I know that have met him (I never had the chance) he had a great sense of humor, especially about Spock, and was a caring and giving person in real life. Even if he only did Spock I would love him, but from what I could tell he also was a good person, and that makes him even more to be missed.

“Such sad news. I was a big Star Trek fan back in the day… I saw a very strong photography exhibit of his work severa years ago at Mass MOCA.”

Bookmama, my son and I saw the same exhibition when we were in the Berkshires a few years ago, and we both liked it so much that I bought the book.

We never missed one episode of Star Trek. Spock was a favorite here too.

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most–human.

Kind of amazing that he had end stage COPD even thought he quit smoking 30 years ago. That’s just one toxic habit.

RIP. End of an era.