Grandpa Spock is dead

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Leonard Nimoy has passed away.

Many of us identify with the character he played so well for so many years.


RIP..........LLAP

Sad news. He created an icon with Mr. Spock.

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I watched the original Star Trek as a kid 1966-1968. I felt no need to watch the other "reboots" as good as they were. Spock of course was the one I connected to.

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015 ... es-ages-83

Lately I have been exceedingly busy and preoccupied, so I have not posted in a while. When I saw the news today that Leonard Nimoy (aka Spock) died, I immediately checked the Wrong Planet. So many of us recognize Spock as ourselves, that Spock would be an honorary Aspie.

LLAP

He's dead, Jim

Spock was one of us. Perhaps WrongPlanet should observe a period of mourning somehow.

Spock was the Patron Saint of the Aspies.

Live Long and Prosper \\//

I am going to give Spock a moment of reflection and a moment of silence. Spock would be the ambassador to Wrong Planet since many autistics and aspies identify as being Spock like.

"Spock" almost did not happen.


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How Leonard Nimoy Almost Wasn’t Spock


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Leonard Nimoy on Star Trek's Season 1 Episode 1

Gene Roddenberry prevented what would have been a casting catastrophe



Actor Leonard Nimoy, a cast member in the upcoming film "Star Trek", poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on April 26, 2009.
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Leonard Nimoy Tells Fans to Quit Smoking After Lung Disease Diagnosis

News of the death of actor Leonard Nimoy will invariably mention the role for which he was most famous, that of Spock on Star Trek. Nimoy and Spock have been mentioned in the same breath for almost exactly 50 years now, and that’s also as long as he has been loved for the role, even when he wasn’t actively involved in a Star Trek project (and even despite calling his first autobiography I Am Not Spock). In fact, the actor’s very first mention in the pages of TIME was in a 1975 article about how the show’s fan culture had picked up after the cancellation of the original series.

But that pairing of actor and role almost didn’t happen.

As TIME recounted in a 1994 cover story about Star Trek (around the time of Star Trek: Generations, the franchise’s seventh feature film, in which Nimoy did not appear), a lot of the original series’ DNA was added after the 1964 pilot displeased executives at NBC, who requested that the casting be changed up before the show went to production—including Spock, who had been played by Nimoy since the beginning. Thankfully, Gene Roddenberry stepped in to plead Nimoy’s case, and the network was convinced to keep him around.

In a tragic twist, the network also requested that Spock smoke a “space cigarette” in order to please a tobacco company that was one of the show’s sponsors. Roddenberry was able to intervene on that point as well, and surely Spock would approve: Nimoy, who died as a result of lung disease, last year urged his fans to quit smoking

Wow. I wonder how the gang from The Big Bang Theory will react? Especially Sheldon.