R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015

He's apparently been in and out of the hospital a lot in recent weeks. http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2015/02/23/leonard-nimoy-hospitalized-chest-pains-rushed-hospital

Aw, shit.

I don't want to live in a world without Spock.

The end is probably not far off.

This one's really going to hurt.

Yeah. Bad enough when Jimmy Doohan and Dee Kelly passed . . . Nimoy is going to be a rough one.

De passing crushed me, because I identified with him the most. Nimoy passing? Damn right that's going to hurt.

Damn... hope he turns okay. But man, just two days I was watching YouTube videos of him and thinking he's getting up there and that it was going to suck when he goes.







Fuck. This has turned to be a depressing day. Damn right it's going to hurt.

DeForest Kelley hurt the most because he reminded me so much of my favorite grandfather. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner will really hurt as well.

I remember how I found out that DeForest died, there was a phone service you could sign up for. Well not really sign up, just call and use. It was wake up/reminder service type of thing. If you did the wake up call you got the day's news. I tried it out, it was sometime in the afternoon. And I had set it to call in five minutes. When I answered the overly cheerful voice said it was the wake up call. And the a female voice read the news, the first thing was the DeForest had died. I remember being surprised and sad.

1999 was a really crappy year for me. I had a major surgery that could have killed me (I ended up unable to work for several months). My grandmother died, my dog Max died, and DeForest Kelley died.

Can't relate. Me & Prince got together and partied like it was.................well you know.

I wouldn't write him off just yet. COPD is a bitch of a disease, but it kills by inches. He's also in one of the five best cardiac hospitals in the country. And apparently he's been tweeting almost constantly since they got the pain managed (sources close to him say it's actually him and not one of his staff).

So, yeah, it's gonna get him eventually, but maybe not this time.

Wow, I had no idea The Bangles made a video for that song, much less that Nimoy was in it.

We can hope.

i expect that when Nimoy passes on, everyone will be thinking about the funeral scene from the end of STII.

I don't think he'll be shot out in a torpedo casing. But maybe they can get Jimmy Doohan to play Amazing Grace.

I still think Star Trek V had potential to be a decent movie.

We needed more scenes like that. And less scenes of awful campfire singing and shitty SFX.

V and VI would both have been better off without the lame gags and not-so-subtle comedy. The scene of Uhura trying to translate Klingon for example.

VI rocked. (even with the silly things)

Fuck. Every time I see that there's a new post in this thread, I expect bad news.

Eh, I liked that scene, and overall consider VI to be one of the better Trek movies. Nimoy, in particular, was quite awesome in that one.

I loved 6, but I can maybe see why some dislike it. By that point the franchise was pretty self aware, so even as serious as the topic was, the movie didn't take itself too seriously.

"You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon"

The one thing I didn't like is making Admiral Cartwright part of the conspiracy. He never had a major part, but I liked him.

How they handled the conspiracy is about the only thing I didn't like so much. They had a chance to present the conspirators as misguided patriots, rather than as fearful buffoons. I mean, the movie starts with Kirk close to being ready to join such a group, but by the end of the movie, they are just bad people who prefer status quo even when it's an obviously worse alternative. The movie would have worked just as well without drawing such a clear line.

Well Star Trek has never really been known for subtlety or grey areas.

I hope Nimoy lives long enough to star in AwesomeTrek 3!

I would have liked more of him as William Bell on Fringe. Though I really don't like what they did towards the end of his arc.

Speaking of lacking subtlety, am I the only one who noticed that the DVD edition of VI, they inserted the faces of the conspirators when Spock mindmelds Valeris?
I've got a damned good memory, I know the theater version, and VHS version just had the closeup of Spock's mouth whispering the names.
Nope, some dope at Paramount thinks we're idiots, and needed our hands held.

Yes, the longer version on the SE DVD has the faces during the mindmeld. It also has the Scooby-Doo ending with Colonel West.