RIP Leonard Nimoy

[cookinwithgas]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=1

 

goddammit

[Jangler]

Time to go to the Genesis Planet.

 

RIP Mr Spock you lived long and prospered. 

 

 

[Inimicus]

Well that's just plain poo....

[Jangler]

[Jangler]

[Mr. Scot]

Ouch. Terrible news.

And there goes that plot device for future Star Trek movies.

[Mr. Scot]

Anyone besides me remember "In Search Of"?

As a kid who believed in Bigfoot/UFOs/Ghosts etc. that show was the coolest.

[cookinwithgas]

I never believed in that stuff but he made that show.

[Darth Biscuit]

Sucks.

 

[Jangler]

Ouch. Terrible news.

And there goes that plot device for future Star Trek movies.

 

Rick Berman wanted to change ST history so bad, but yet he kept reaching into the past, now they have no choice.

[Guest]

[cookinwithgas]

I don't think people really understand the impact of the Spock character on our culture. In the 60's, he was the outsider, the alien, and could give voice to alternative points of view without freaking people out - the show could be a carefully disguised treatise on the Vietnam War or an attack on racism, but without that cool unemotional character providing clarity and insight the humans did not possess, Star Treks goals of portraying a more humanistic society probably would have failed, which is kind of ironic.

 

In a way, Leonard Nimoy was the archetype for the "Hollywood Liberal" - not the imaginary one dreamed up by the people that claim to hate Hollywood, but repost everything Chuck Norris or that girl from Clueless says, but the live and let live, deeply devout Jew with an appreciation for everyone and every viewpoint.

[cookinwithgas]

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[Fenrir]

A true film/TV icon. RIP Mr. Nimoy.