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Title: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Cifero Windtail on February 27, 2015, 08:04:50 PM

I have some sad news for any Star Trek fans. This morning, Leonard Nimoy died, as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Live Long and Prosper in the great realms of space, Leonard. ;-;


Full details:


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


We will never forget you.


*turns on appropriate funeral march video.... Leonard Nimoy's famous "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins".*


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU)

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: MrRazot on February 27, 2015, 08:54:39 PM

Owch...
That hurts...

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Cifero Windtail on February 27, 2015, 08:56:13 PM

It truly does. ;-;

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: anoni on February 28, 2015, 08:34:58 AM

What I find interesting about these things is people focus primarily on the fictional character, rather than the real one, in their memorial posts.

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Trixsie Vixen on February 28, 2015, 06:10:18 PM

Oh no!  I hadn't heard this :'(


That breaks my heart.  Yes I like Star Trek and especially Classic Trek, Nimoy was a great writer.  The Entropy Effect is the only ST novel I've read (written by Nimoy) and I loved it.  I've also read both his autobiographies: I am not Spock in which he talks a lot about how he actually did a whole other bunch of great work so please stop just talking about Spock!  And then the followup book I AM Spock in which he admits that he was integral in creating the character and the character in turn had changed who he was and for the better so if that was his legacy he was proud of it.


Funny guy, clever, sweet, talented actor, writer and director.  I can't help but think of the Kirk line: "of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Rouge on March 01, 2015, 10:09:00 AM

Heard about it on Reddit. A real shame, honestly. His last Tweet is especially somber  :'(

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: George on March 01, 2015, 05:06:27 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/RiF4Evf.jpg)

Set phasers to feel.

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Trixsie Vixen on March 02, 2015, 11:09:17 AM

I haven't heard one person say "Oh no the voice actor for Sentinel Prime!"


Sure, it wasn't Fiddler on the Roof, but he brought some gravitas to the part.

Title: Re: No easy way to say this....
Post by: Dubaku on March 03, 2015, 01:20:01 PM

That hit me hard when I heard the news. :'(

Dimes to Diamonds