Leonard Nimoy dies at age 83.

    Probably the only guy to get away with professing socialism on a weekly basis (“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”")  and was loved for it.
His "Logical" attitude definately changed my years. 

    Saw him in Milwuakee when he came on stage to introduce the Kink's.
All stood up and cheered and he replied  "My, you humans are emotional creatures". 
 
    Heres to you First Science Officer.
You have  lived long and prospered. 

¡Salud!

Friggin' Rock.  You had me tearing up.

Youngins are like who the F is Leonard Nimoy ?

Onward to the next great adventure.

Godspeed Mr. Nimoy, we will miss you.

I remember my brother throwing Star Trek parties at my parents house. I am old enough to remember watching the series when it originally aired with all his friends. My brother and his friends were into Spock and Kirk. But they used to make fun of McCoy the Doctor for being so emotional. Funny thing is my brother became a doctor in real life. I never let him forget his making fun of McCoy. My Aunt (Mother's sister) worked at one of the studios and got my brother black and white 8x10 glossy photos of 6 of the main actors. They were all signed. I remember specifically that DeForest Kelly signed his photo "With emotion..." When my brother left for college (USC) he gave me those photos. I cherished them and saved them in a book to keep them flat and safe. One day I came home from school and my mother had cleaned out my room and had given away that book. Needless to say I was pissed.

I'll never forget the episode where Kirk kissed Uhura. My brother and his friends were sort of stunned as it was the first interracial kiss on TV. After the shock wore off they started making nasty comments. My brother made me swear I would not tell my parents what they said. LOL I am not sure I understood what they said anyway. 

The one thing I remember very clearly was my brother and his friends being VERY into the Spock character. They would emulate the hand sign and would quote Spock lines from the shows all the time. They even started playing this game called "What would Spock say/do?"

Fast forward to the late 80's and I was working as an Inspector in Los Angeles. During this time all 14k unreinforced brick buildings in LA were required to be reinforced or torn down. A lot of the studios around LA and surrounding areas were these brick buildings. I got to work in and around a lot of the large and small private studios while they were being reinforced. I worked in a small studio one day and while I was inspecting some work I saw the Enterprise on a long track that was used to film the opening scenes and all the scenes where the ship would be moving across the screen. It was pulled by a string. And to the best of my memory was around 3'-4' long.

I bought Nimoy's autobiography from a guy at the gun show a year ago. Guess I should read it now.

¡Salud!

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I really love the old Star trek series. We should have a toast with Romulan Ale and let the drunken posting begin.

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Live Long & Prosper

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one. I remember that from Wrath of Khan.

By the way, Ricardo Monteban was the best Khan!

Should rename this post  "Guess which 2a members are long in tooth".
Talk about dating ourselves.