Very sad day for Star Trek and Science Fiction fans.
A very classy guy who actually made the time to go to the town of Vulcan
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...berta-1.970014
A lot of people forget that when he was first Cast in Star Trek he thought that the Spock role would kill his career and asked for heavy makeup and ears so nobody would recognize him.
Then later on he was thrilled that Spock would be given a powerful death in STWOK, but the minute that he died, Nimoy felt that he was shattered, and was happy that he was bought back. He directed 2 of the three best Star Trek films in III and IV and had a hand in saving 6.
Quote:
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
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McCoy: Perhaps, we could cover a little philosophical ground. Life
[pause]
McCoy: Death
[pause]
McCoy: Life.
[pause]
McCoy: Things of that nature.
Spock: I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
McCoy: C'mon, Spock, it's me, McCoy. You really have gone where no man's gone before. Can't you tell me what it felt like?
Spock: It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference.
McCoy: You're joking!
Spock: A joke
[pause]
Spock: is a story with a humorous climax.
McCoy: You mean I have to die to discuss your insights on death?
Spock: Forgive me, Doctor. I am receiving a number of distress calls.
McCoy: I don't doubt it.