tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734769081735169113.post5055164421635297481..comments2024-02-22T02:39:50.232+00:00Comments on The Trek Collective: Salute NimoyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734769081735169113.post-82307132466000503772015-03-02T18:24:07.015+00:002015-03-02T18:24:07.015+00:00I am an Irish Star Trek fan of 45 years, having fi...I am an Irish Star Trek fan of 45 years, having first come across it on our black and white "telly" in 1969 when I had just started Secondary school. The character of Spock was fascinating and was an immediate "hook" for me. I have followed the lives of the actors and the characters they portrayed over the years in detail, although I never got to meet them, I felt I knew them somehow! I knew Mr. Nimoy had been in poor health recently but the end seems to have been swift. There is no doubt he will be missed and my sympathy goes first to all his family, and then to all the many fans over the world who will remember him as the most famous Vulcan of them all! Rest in Peace and thank you for so much I have learned from Star Trek as a whole and from Spock in particular!MVC1701https://www.blogger.com/profile/05518979562497945054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734769081735169113.post-48969593255398714342015-03-01T12:09:05.440+00:002015-03-01T12:09:05.440+00:00I hadn't realized until I read your fine artic...I hadn't realized until I read your fine article that Spock was indeed the thread that ran through <i>Trek</i>; from <i>The Cage</i> to <i>Into Darkness</i>. As a fan, I'm touched by the expressions of sadness at our joint loss, but also buoyed by such warmth and appreciation for Nimoy as a man and actor. I'm sure he would have been touched as well, and I think he was aware during his life that he was a beloved figure, both as Spock and as himself. He never seemed to attract the polarization of opinion that Shatner seems to arouse in people; everybody liked Leonard.<br /><br />I remember when Jimmy Doohan passed away (I met him once at a signing event on my birthday, and shook his hand). And when DeForest Kelley also left us; Like Nimoy, all three had lived long, productive and seemingly happy lives. But Nimoy's death feels like more of a true <i>loss</i>; Doohan & Kelley made you think "Well, that's too bad; but...". With Nimoy, there seems to be more of a sense of real grief. Probably nobody else in the TOS era (including Roddenberry himself, and Majel) could elicit such a feeling of emotion. <br /><br />The loss of the others is like losing a good neighbor. Leonard's passing is a death in the family. He will be sorely missed.mcarp555https://www.blogger.com/profile/12701088789421243731noreply@blogger.com