Leonard Nimoy wasn't just Spock. He was the template for the entire fictional Vulcan race, which assumes more & more importance as the franchise developed.
I'm not sure that any of the other ST races had such an obvious "father".
I met him briefly when he considered buying a tropical fish store in L.A. that I worked at. He didn't wear his ears at the time. He wisely decided to invest his Hollywood cash elsewhere.
What can I say, you feel like you knew him personally.
It is pretty funny sometimes in the global warming flame wars to run into a warmie who thinks that Spock is the prototypical scientist, and not a character in a TV series who manages impossible things, and that scientists like Michael Mann are therefore like Spock.
During college we invented our own Star Trek drinking game one night.
The biggest trigger to drink five slammers was "Spock becomes sexually aroused," remembering at the time only one episode when he returns to Vulcan to mate.
While Spock seems disconcerted by Uhura's singing at first, and the level of arousal may be a close call (we were screaming exhortations at the TV screen), I think you'll agree that his coy smile was eventually enough to justify us getting started on a truly epic drinking binge.
Oh, on the Starship Enterprise There's someone who's in Satan's guise, Whose devil's ears and devil's eyes Could rip your heart from you! At first his look could hypnotize, And then his touch would barbarize. His alien love could victimize... And rip your heart from you! And that's why female astronauts Oh very female astronauts Wait terrified and overwrought To find what he will do. Oh girls in space, be wary, be wary, be wary! Girls in space, be wary! We know not what he'll do.
Crap. I'm old. I used to go to my neighbor's house to watch ST-TOS in COLOR! omg! (Plus, you could CHANGE THE CHANNEL by shaking a handful of change. WTF!?) Meanwhile, their father was never home, since he was working at a company on Page Mill Road. Even odds on which situation changed the world more...
One of the Sunday flicks at Stanford was "The Wrath of Khan". Throughout the movie it was like 700 people doing MST3K simultaneously. We all settled down during the battle in the nebula and, during Spock's death agony, went dead silent. When he died the silence dragged on for maybe ten more seconds. Then someone up in the balcony shattered the silence screaming SPOOOOOOOCK!!!, and we all broke up in what sounded like nervous laughter. Mine, at least.
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I have been, and shall always be, your fan.
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
Leonard Nimoy wasn't just Spock. He was the template for the entire fictional Vulcan race, which assumes more & more importance as the franchise developed.
I'm not sure that any of the other ST races had such an obvious "father".
As a Vulcan, Nimoy was a trained ax thrower, but sadly his lungs did not adjust well to our atmosphere.
I am glad that Nimoy came to a sense of peace and acceptance about Spock, both for him and his many fans.
It's weird. Spock has been one of the most influential fictional people in my life, and probably more influential than many real people have been.
Landing party away, Mr. Spock.
Thank God Sheldon Cooper has his DNA.
He's dead, Jim.
I met him briefly when he considered buying a tropical fish store in L.A. that I worked at. He didn't wear his ears at the time. He wisely decided to invest his Hollywood cash elsewhere.
I enjoyed his work, but perhaps the funniest was this voice over on "The Big Bang Theory".
And goodbye to investor Irving Kahn age 109.
http://www.crainswealth.com/article/20150226/WEALTH/150229917
In later years he seemed to be the most "balanced" of the original cast members. No puffed up ego...no bitterness about what might have been.
As Tibore quoted earlier:
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most...human!"
@MadMan, well said.
William Shatner seems to be going strong at age 83.
I read the obit. He was a decent man who led a worthy life. Maybe he can be reincarnated for the sequel.
What can I say, you feel like you knew him personally.
It is pretty funny sometimes in the global warming flame wars to run into a warmie who thinks that Spock is the prototypical scientist, and not a character in a TV series who manages impossible things, and that scientists like Michael Mann are therefore like Spock.
Paraphrasing a tweet I saw earlier today: It was nice to see so many nice pictures of Nimoy in his iconic white and gold Spock costume.
One to beam up.
was spock's costume blue and black or white and gold?
During college we invented our own Star Trek drinking game one night.
The biggest trigger to drink five slammers was "Spock becomes sexually aroused," remembering at the time only one episode when he returns to Vulcan to mate.
Well, the episode we watched that night contained this scene with Uhura .
While Spock seems disconcerted by Uhura's singing at first, and the level of arousal may be a close call (we were screaming exhortations at the TV screen), I think you'll agree that his coy smile was eventually enough to justify us getting started on a truly epic drinking binge.
Oh, on the Starship Enterprise
There's someone who's in Satan's guise,
Whose devil's ears and devil's eyes
Could rip your heart from you!
At first his look could hypnotize,
And then his touch would barbarize.
His alien love could victimize...
And rip your heart from you!
And that's why female astronauts
Oh very female astronauts
Wait terrified and overwrought
To find what he will do.
Oh girls in space, be wary, be wary, be wary!
Girls in space, be wary!
We know not what he'll do.
So many memories, young and old.
Live long and prosper.
Even Spock was Banned from Argo. It's an old, sci-fi folk song (filk) about R&R for the Enterprise crew. -CP
Cigarette smoking killed Spock? It seems so illogical.
He only needed to hang on a few more years until his head could have been grafted onto a shiny new body.
Kirk surely meant well in his eulogy: "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
But isn't that like calling a half-black man "just as good as a white man?"
I found it offensive. At age 10.
I heard on NPR that Nimoy was Jewish. So he did take life seriously. RIP friend.
Dif-Tor heh smusma...
Interesting that the character that was supposed emotionless and based only on logic generates such heartfelt responses.
Live long and prosper. Origins of the famous hand gesture according to Leonard Nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiWkWcR86I#t=255
"He's dead, Jim."
Mostly dead or all dead? Because I've seen Star Trek III, and I'm thinking he's just mostly dead.
Nimoy's photography: The Full Body Project.
So now we know what those bright spots on Ceres are that have been puzzling astronomers. It's his ride home!
Crap. I'm old.
I used to go to my neighbor's house to watch ST-TOS in COLOR! omg! (Plus, you could CHANGE THE CHANNEL by shaking a handful of change. WTF!?)
Meanwhile, their father was never home, since he was working at a company on Page Mill Road.
Even odds on which situation changed the world more...
One of the Sunday flicks at Stanford was "The Wrath of Khan". Throughout the movie it was like 700 people doing MST3K simultaneously. We all settled down during the battle in the nebula and, during Spock's death agony, went dead silent. When he died the silence dragged on for maybe ten more seconds. Then someone up in the balcony shattered the silence screaming SPOOOOOOOCK!!!, and we all broke up in what sounded like nervous laughter. Mine, at least.
True story.
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