RIP Leonard Nimoy

[CBR JGWRR]

The Nur said:

CBR JGWRR said:

Of the people in those photos it is just Shatner left now though.

Which is what I meant, didn't manage to put it across very clearly though.

Probably what the guy who posted it meant too...

[g3org3y]

sparks_E39 said:

Higgs boson said:

nyxster said:

I have and always will be your friend.

That made me cry as a kid.

Sad day

I'm not ashamed to say that it made me cry as an adult!

Definitely a tear jerker. And still the best Star Trek film, and amongst the greatest sci fi films of all time.

RIP

[The Nur]

CBR JGWRR said:

Probably what the guy who posted it meant too...

Presumably, yes.

[br d]

Eric Mc said:

Spock wasn't real, you know.

And I thought that the Vulcans did have a form of religion.

Uncharacteristically petty of you Eric. He clearly knows Spock isn't real and is merely expressing a sense of loss for something of import from his childhood.

How do you feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CHjiuFehU

[davepoth]

br d said:

Eric Mc said:

Spock wasn't real, you know.

And I thought that the Vulcans did have a form of religion.

Uncharacteristically petty of you Eric. He clearly knows Spock isn't real and is merely expressing a sense of loss for something of import from his childhood.

How do you feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CHjiuFehU

http://www.oocities.org/shirkahr/index.html

This old Geocities page fills in some of the background (maybe; who can tell?) but it seems that Vulcan religion would be closer to something like Buddhism, which is non-theistic.

Maybe Spock wasn't real; the values that he represented were though, and still are. Look again at Nimoy's last tweet, and you can see that he agreed with that too.

[tali1]

I will miss Nimoy - but even as a sci-fi fan i hated Star Trek.Spock was the most evil looking man in the world-scared me stless- and yet inexplicably he wasn't a baddie.Total non starter for me.But full respect for an actor who becomes synonymous with a role.

[Eric Mc]

If anybody needs to be revered it should be Gene Roddenbery as it was he who invented Spock and it was he who gave Spock his view of life and the universe. Nimoy was an actor, who would have been asked to interpret and express Roddenberry's ideas about what Spock represented.

[davepoth]

Eric Mc said:

If anybody needs to be revered it should be Gene Roddenbery as it was he who invented Spock and it was he who gave Spock his view of life and the universe. Nimoy was an actor, who would have been asked to interpret and express Roddenberry's ideas about what Spock represented.

Roddenberry didn't hold that opinion; he valued the contribution that Nimoy made in developing the character. Here's some indisputable primary evidence.

http://missionlogpodcast.com/discovereddocuments/0...

You're welcome.