Spock is Gone!
Actor Leonard Nimoy dead at Age 83.
Nimoy died Friday (2/27/2015) at his home in Bel-Air at age 83.
In 2014, Nimoy revealed that he had Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease, a condition he linked to the cigarettes he had given up 30 years earlier.
Nimoy was born in Boston (March 26, 1931), the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
He became famous for his TV role on the show “Star Trek” as the Vulcan – half-alien, half-human Mr. Spock, the science officer of the Starship Enterprise.
He went on the play the character in the Star Trek films.
Spock was known for his signature split-fingered salute and his saying: "Live Long and Prosper."
Nimoy co-starring with William Shatner, who played his commanding officer, Captain James Kirk in the TV series.
"Mr. Spock" was the son of a human mother and a father from Vulcan, a planet whose inhabitants had concluded that pure logic was the only way they could survive.
Top Spock Quotes:
~Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Ultimate Computer"
Without followers, evil cannot spread.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "And The Children Shall Lead"
Change is the essential process of all existence.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "This Side of Paradise"
Vulcans never bluff.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Doomsday Machine"
It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
–SPOCK, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Errand of Mercy"
Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
–SPOCK, Star Trek (2009)
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
SPOCK, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
