Of All the Souls I Have Encountered In My Travels, His was the most Human...

I have never seen a more touching tribute to a beloved character when awash in bagpipes of amazing grace, an entire audience of teary-eyed movie-goers stood in a dark theater in front of a movie screen while a funeral scene for Spock was being shown in "The Wrath of Khan".  The audience was not only shocked but drawn to show their respects of a character tat touched the hearts and minds of so many of us sci-fi enthusiasts.

Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Mr. Spock on the iconic classic sci-fi series Star Trek, truly did “live long and prosper.” The prolific, multi-talented actor, director, photographer, singer? and poet passed away this morning at his Los Angeles home. He died of complications from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83.

We here at Wasabi, cannot even to begin to express how much we admire the actor, the sci-fi royalty, the man that even begins to describe the person, Leonard Nimoy.  

If the word "icon" means anything, it defines the career of Leonard Nimoy.  Outside of Leonard Nimoy's full-length album as the pointy-eared Star Trek Vulcan, 1967’s Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space, his career was stellar.  Not many can boast that a role they played was so persevering and beloved that it spans decades of devoted fans.

That being said, Leonard Nimoy was so much more than the tormented half-breed Vulcan. During a vibrant, accomplished acting career that spanned a year shy of six and a half decades on the stage and screen, Nimoy remained active in supporting the American Cancer Society, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Beit T'Shuvah and March of Dimes. In 2003, Nimoy and his second wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, cousin of film director Michael Bay, launched The Nimoy Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting visual artists. He was also a proponent of same-sex marriage and of embracing all body sizes and types, having published The Full Body Project (Five Ties Publishing, 2007). The book features artful photographs of nude full-bodied women in repose that he himself snapped.

Nimoy, a first-generation American fluent in Yiddish, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine, came to reject, and then later embrace his fame for playing a half-human, half-alien "Vulcan." The Army veteran and published author eventually made a comeback as the unflaggingly rational, sharp-eared hybrid in several top-grossing recent Star Trek movies.

Best Quotes From Mr. Spock, 1st Officer Starship Enterprise NCC 1701:

• "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them." — Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series (The Ultimate Computer)

• "Live long and prosper." — Spock

• "Without followers, evil cannot spread." — Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series (And The Children Shall Lead)

• "Insufficient facts always invite danger." — Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series (Space Seed)

• "I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy the idea of command nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done." — Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series (The Galileo Seven)

• "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

• “May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with Humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.” — Spock

• "Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.” — Spock

• "Change is the essential process of all existence." — Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)

Best Quotes From Leonard Nimoy:

• These shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing." — Leonard Nimoy

• "My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express." — Leonard Nimoy

• "I am not Spock." — Leonard Nimoy

• "For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me." — Leonard Nimoy

• "I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may." — Leonard Nimoy

• "You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into." — Leonard Nimoy

• "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." — Leonard Nimoy

• Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special." — Leonard Nimoy

• "That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." — Leonard Nimoy

• "You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise." — Leonard Nimoy

• "You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into." — Leonard Nimoy

Source:

Captain's log. Stardate 8130.3, Starship Enterprise on training mission to Gamma Hydra. Section 14, coordinates 22/87/4

So “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;”
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