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R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

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Friday, February 27, 2015 5:42 PM

WHOZIT

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Friday, February 27, 2015 6:01 PM

WISHIMAY


Yanno, twenty years ago everyone thought Shatner would've gone first, and he's outliving them all. Genetics is... fascinating.

So Kirk, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov left huh? Not a whole lot left to fly the ship with.

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Friday, February 27, 2015 6:41 PM

THGRRI


Spent many a happy hour watching Star trek. I intend to spend many more as well.


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Friday, February 27, 2015 6:51 PM

LEMMING


I still do - they're showing the remasters on one of the Freeview channels over here.

A tru-SF icon. LLAP trending like a Tribble on Viagra and not a bad word to be heard about a talented and well loved human being. No Trek = No Firefly, simple as that (or any other decent space based TV series since)

Go boldly Mr Nimoy, go boldly.

Now, where's that Romulan Ale?

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Friday, February 27, 2015 9:03 PM

MOOSE



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Friday, February 27, 2015 11:52 PM

THEGHOSTOFCHRISISALL


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As illogical as it may be, I have shed a few tears this day....

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Saturday, February 28, 2015 10:09 AM

ANONYMOUSE


As Surak might have said, "The cause is sufficient." Go ahead and cry; to deny human nature would be illogical - Leonard and Spock both would've seen it as a mark of respect for their passing.

In the words of T'Pau, played with such gravitas by Celia Lovsky: "Live long and prosper, Spock."

He did.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015 2:43 PM

WHOZIT


How do you say good bye to a legend...you don't, they're forever. See ya latter Leonard, you're not going anywhere.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015 3:15 PM

SISTER


Put a dark shadow of sad on my heart.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:52 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


IIRC he spent some years trying to distance himself from the role, feeling it was not serious acting, and beneath him. Is this correct? Or am I just assuming Galaxy Quest was shadowing instead of foreshadowing?

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Saturday, February 28, 2015 10:44 PM

JONGSSTRAW


On Sunday MeTV will be airing a marathon of classic tv episodes that featured Leonard Nimoy. From the promo I saw it looks like it will include his work in Mission Impossible, The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, Sea Hunt, and others.

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 10:26 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Sad hearing the news of his passing. But as much a part of foundation he was to current sci-fi and pop culture, I regret he didn't get to show more of himself in other roles. He struggled , it seems for a while at least, dealing with being " Spock ", and little else in the eyes of the public. Still, no one can deny the huge impact that character had on so many fans and casual observers over the decades.

We lost an icon, and much more.

Be at peace, Mr. Nimoy.



Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 1:23 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


http://axelmedellin.deviantart.com/art/Universal-Mourning-LLAP-Leonard
-Nimoy-517112450

That's Kaylee in the center of "Universal Mourning. LLAP, Leonard Nimoy".


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 1:43 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
http://axelmedellin.deviantart.com/art/Universal-Mourning-LLAP-Leonard
-Nimoy-517112450

That's Kaylee in the center of "Universal Mourning. LLAP, Leonard Nimoy".



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Would that be Uhura of Star Trek, Princess Leia of Star Wars, Riley of Aliens, Kaylee of Firefly, who??, and Pris (Darryl Hannah) of Blade Runner, who?? is that Lexx?, and Scully of X-Files?

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 3:49 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


The blonde on the right is Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica. The other redhead besides Scully is Leeloo from The Fifth Element. My guess for the one in the back is Chiana from Farscape.



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Sunday, March 1, 2015 7:34 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by ecgordon:
My guess for the one in the back is Chiana from Farscape.

Correct!
Farscape's Chiana Original Makeup Test .
I'm really glad they didn't go with the pointy teeth at 4 min 30 sec into the video!


Leonard Nimoy on Spock's make-up on Star Trek. Nimoy designed Spock's makeup with a little help. The original ears were grotesque and funny.


Four hour interview with Leonard Nemoy in Beverly Hills, CA on November 2, 2000. www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/leonard-nimoy

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 11:47 PM

OPPYH


Spock was my favorite character of all Trek characters. This hurts. But it has been a Star Trek original series marathon on dvd at my place this weekend. That helps ease the pain a little.

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Monday, March 2, 2015 11:24 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


"Star Trek is great, and Leonard Nimoy's Spock was the greatest thing about it," said columnist Matthew Yglesias.

"But Spock was not only a hero. He was a particular kind of hero. Someone the wrong kind of people would call a villain. I am always struck, as a longtime Star Trek fan, by the fact that many media figures seem to think it's a dis on President Obama to compare him to Spock.

The ease with which some deride Spock makes him truly unusual for a television character. Spock is someone who some of us can eminently identify with, but also someone who others find so alien that they are compelled to castigate him. That, in turn, makes him a dozen times more relatable than a more conventional and universally admired hero."

"He was an archetype that was compelling enough to power not just five Star Trek shows, but countless characters in subsequent decades' shows: from Rupert Giles in Buffy to Benedict Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock Holmes to Temperance Brennan in Bones to House's Dr. House." More praise at http://www.vox.com/2015/2/27/8121571/leonard-nimoy-spock-best



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, March 2, 2015 6:06 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
The blonde on the right is Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica. The other redhead besides Scully is Leeloo from The Fifth Element. My guess for the one in the back is Chiana from Farscape.


Leeloo with clothes and a cellphone? That seems like a different Fifth Element than the one I saw. I can see the suspenders, but that also seemed to apply to the girl on Lexx, and more so with the t-shirt.

Remember how Spock was the character that got Star Trek banned? Which led to it's horrible ratings and threats of it's demise before the first season was completed. But saved by the Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood. And also led to all those episodes with Spock covering his ears with various accoutrements, which I always assumed Jayne's various headgear was alluding to.

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Monday, March 2, 2015 6:52 PM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
The blonde on the right is Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica. The other redhead besides Scully is Leeloo from The Fifth Element. My guess for the one in the back is Chiana from Farscape.


Leeloo with clothes and a cellphone? That seems like a different Fifth Element than the one I saw. I can see the suspenders, but that also seemed to apply to the girl on Lexx, and more so with the t-shirt.

Remember how Spock was the character that got Star Trek banned? Which led to it's horrible ratings and threats of it's demise before the first season was completed. But saved by the Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood. And also led to all those episodes with Spock covering his ears with various accoutrements, which I always assumed Jayne's various headgear was alluding to.



It's a cute pic and the artist meant well, personally I would have gone with Zoe, she was the bad ass. Kaylee is sweet and harmless.

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Monday, March 2, 2015 7:12 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Leeloo with clothes and a cellphone? That seems like a different Fifth Element than the one I saw.

No cell phone ... Multi-Pass, as in "Leeloo Dallas Multi-Pass."

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Monday, March 2, 2015 10:14 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Leeloo with clothes and a cellphone? That seems like a different Fifth Element than the one I saw.


Maybe you need to watch it again.





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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 4:42 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by ecgordon:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Leeloo with clothes and a cellphone? That seems like a different Fifth Element than the one I saw.


Maybe you need to watch it again.




Thanks for the screencap. Watching it again sounds like a good idea, but Tucker makes me cringe.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:29 PM

WISHIMAY


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Maybe you need to watch it again.




Chihkan gud! Hehehe... chikaan mmmmmm.

I say it every time I bake something chicken.

Also, I sing the "Spatula City" song from UHF whenever I dig through the spatula drawer.

And I still have a Hamburger Helper ditty in my head whenever I go down that aisle... "Aye aye aye-aye-aye I have four New Mexican Flavors"

My brain really likes sound bites

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 7:07 PM

WHOZIT


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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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Maybe you need to watch it again.




Chihkan gud! Hehehe... chikaan mmmmmm.

I say it every time I bake something chicken.

Also, I sing the "Spatula City" song from UHF whenever I dig through the spatula drawer.

And I still have a Hamburger Helper ditty in my head whenever I go down that aisle... "Aye aye aye-aye-aye I have four New Mexican Flavors"

My brain really likes sound bites



When you use a strong cleaning fluid to clean your kitchen you may want to crack a window. The music in your head may go away.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 6:19 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by G:
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Originally posted by whozit:

When you use a strong cleaning fluid to clean your kitchen you may want to crack a window. The music in your head may go away.



Something else that's funny:


Since actor Leonard Nimoy’s death on Friday, Feb. 27th, 2015, $5.00 bills in Canada have turned up “Spocked” after there was a campaign to do this was launched. According to the Toronto Sun, the Bank of Canada executives have urged Star Trek fans to stop defacing currency in tribute to Nimoy who played the Star Trek character, Spock. Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier is on the $5.00 bill.

Large numbers of the notes in circulation now show Laurier with Spock’s pointy ears, trademark haircut and eyebrows, a Star Trek badge and the character’s mantra “live long and prosper.”

The Sun says Bank of Canada spokeswoman, Josianne Menard, has confirmed the stunt is not illegal, but she urges Spock fans to stop. She says in a statement, “It is not illegal to write or make other markings on bank notes… However, there are important reasons why it should not be done. Writing on a bank-note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.”


"Good people never live long enough... and most of us are pretty good..."
- Sir Arthur Conan Duh



Spocking was common for long before Nimoy's death. But it has picked up the pace a bit since his passing.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 6:23 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wishimay:
Also, I sing the "Spatula City" song from UHF whenever I dig through the spatula drawer.


I can't recall the ditty well enough, but my face always cracks whenever I heard ads for the Spatula City store - never conjured if it existed before or only after UHF.
One of my favorite films - best film Michael Richards or Fran Drescher ever did. Stanley Spudowski just kills me. Next closest film was Freaked.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 8:36 PM

WISHIMAY


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Also, I sing the "Spatula City" song from UHF whenever I dig through the spatula drawer.



"Spatula City - We sell spatula's- AND THAT'S ALL!!"

Always liked Weird Al. I have a few songs in my noggin that I'd love to see him do or produce...

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Friday, March 6, 2015 8:01 AM

DUN

nods head


A great actor.I always got the impression that he was a deep thinker and had time for everybody.

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Friday, March 6, 2015 12:03 PM

SCATHAC


One of the things I read about Nimoy was that he felt he was "everybody's honorary grandfather," because he loved people, and I think that's especially telling of the kind of person he was. I think that deep affection for humanity has always come out, especially in his role as Spock, the observer and analyzer of humanity's adventures.

The world of science fiction fans lost one of our icons and heroes... but it feels like the world at large lost someone particularly good, kind, and loving. He will be missed.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:22 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Leonard Nimoy with Geoff Boucher on Hero Complex: The Show - Part 1
Published on May 9, 2012

Cultural icon Leonard Nimoy talks with LA Times Reporter Geoff Boucher about his work as an actor, director and photographer. In part one of a two-part interview, Nimoy reveals what he first thought of the original Star Trek series and details about the making of Star Trek IV.



Leonard Nimoy does a William Shatner Impression on Hero Complex: The Show - Part 2
Published on May 23, 2012

Cultural icon Leonard Nimoy talks with LA Times Reporter Geoff Boucher about his work as an actor, director and photographer. In part two of the interview, Nimoy reveals the inception of the Star Trek movies, great moments in The Original Series, and the origin of the Vulcan salute.



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:22 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"


I remember loving his voice most of all when I was younger... voices have always been a "thing" with me, which is why James Earl Jones & Patrick Stewart give me the right kind of shivers... When I was also young he narrated a series called "In Search of..." which did a different mysterious theme for every episode, eg: "In Search of UFOs" "In Search of Ghosts" - perhaps I owe some of my fascination with the paranormal to him as well?

If I could tell him how much I loved the hours I spent in his company, I would - but I do want to say, "He lived well, and prospered... and we prospered from his excellent input to many an adventure!"


CPT Magda R Martin
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:28 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:

Originally posted by magdalena:
I remember loving his voice most of all when I was younger... voices have always been a "thing" with me, which is why James Earl Jones & Patrick Stewart give me the right kind of shivers... When I was also young he narrated a series called "In Search of..." which did a different mysterious theme for every episode, eg: "In Search of UFOs" "In Search of Ghosts" - perhaps I owe some of my fascination with the paranormal to him as well?

If I could tell him how much I loved the hours I spent in his company, I would - but I do want to say, "He lived well, and prospered... and we prospered from his excellent input to many an adventure!"


CPT Magda R Martin
CO of Golf Co (Europe)
76th Independent Battalion



I remember the "In Search Of..." show.


I had thought it was much more recent. I must have been seeing reruns, like in the 90's or 00's. He seemed quite aged in the shows I saw. But I did enjoy them, they were before their time - or maybe he just pushed those subjects to be exposed before the mainstream decreed them ready.

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