Remembering Leonard Nimoy

February 27th, 2015 by admin | Posted in Obituary, Star Trek

It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Leonard Nimoy at the age of 83. He was one of my childhood heroes due to Star Trek. I remember identifying with his logical approach to dealing with his emotions in his human half as I wrestled with my own emotions and social changes during teen years in the 1970s. My appreciation continued during this time period as he served as the host for In Search of… on the paranormal, and in things like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), and his ongoing Trek films. I was privileged to meet him during a speaking engagement he had at Delta College in Stockton, California in the 70s when my brother and I dashed back stage after his presentation to get an autograph and a snapshot. He was a great icon of the the fantastic in my life.

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One Response to “Remembering Leonard Nimoy”

Carl Rosenberg

Mar 13th, 2015 at 9:20 pm

I was pleased to see this tribute to Leonard Nimoy, whom I especially loved for his portrayal of Spock in STAR TREK, but whom I also admire as a civilized man with wide-ranging interests (many of them described in his memoir I AM SPOCK).

Isaac Asimov made an interesting comment about the Spock character–that Spock’s surface logical and rational demeanour was an altogether different thing from indifference, since it was obvious that Spock loved and was devoted to his crewmates.