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Title: Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek dead at 83
Source: The Verge
URL Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/27/8120961/leonard-nimoy-dead-at-83
Published: Feb 27, 2015
Author: Jacob Kastrenakes
Post Date: 2015-02-27 20:29:16 by Buzzard
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Views: 114
Comments: 10

Leonard Nimoy, the actor known for playing Spock on Star Trek, died today at age 83, according to The New York Times. He's reported to have died in his home of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease that he attributed to years of smoking. Nimoy was also a writer, a photographer, and a musician, but none could touch the impact he made defining Spock, the Enterprise's logical and emotionless science officer. Even through Nimoy's final tweet, he was signing off with one of his character's most memorable phrases: "live long and prosper."

Alongside William Shatner, Nimoy starred in the original Star Trek series through its three-season run in the late 1960s. He continued to make appearances as Spock as the series went through new incarnations, including voicing an animated version of his character, making appearances in spinoffs, and even taking a role in J.J. Abrams' reboot as an older take on Spock. Nimoy's relationship with Star Trek ran deeper than just his appearances: he also directed two of the films, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home. The character became intertwined with Nimoy's life. He wrote two autobiographies dealing with his relationship to the character, I Am Not Spock in the 1970s and I Am Spock in 1995.
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#5. To: Buzzard (#0)
DON'T READ THIS POST -- IT'S NO FUN.
I WARNED YOU.
Let's have a moment of silence for how Lenny baby pushed the Jewish agenda for 50 years. Star Trek is one of the longest-running diversity sermons, the original series (at least) being merely a thinly-veiled futurist UN. Its left-pushing impact on youth attitudes since the hippie era is simply incalculable.
Jew Mel Mermelstein is guilty of some of the worst ravages against holohoax revisionism, but weird-looking Russian heeb Nimoy happily played him in a TV movie to shore up the 6 million lie. Sure, Star Trek is fun drama and makes some good points but there's always an evil subtext with post-Beatles Hollywood. (And lots of pre-Beatles Hollywood for that matter.)

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-02-28 5:47:04 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
Let's have a moment of silence for how Lenny baby pushed the Jewish agenda for 50 years.

Yeah I know he was a member of the tribe. No argument there.
But sometimes, especially as a kid, it was fun to suspend disbelief and enjoy the entertainment at face value. That's what Mr. Spock was to me.
Just don't shatter the remainder of my childhood illusions. If Captain Kangaroo was also a jew, keep me in the dark !

Buzzard posted on 2015-02-28 9:46:49 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#10. To: Buzzard (#6)
I was a big fan of the original Star Trek (I was 12) but now I realize the good guys went first and that loon Shatner will probably go last.

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