Leonard Nimoy Was a Beautiful Human - LEONARD NIMOY DAY

It's Leonard Nimoy Day... so I share what the man who played Spock meant to me.

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[gailseatonhumbert]

YouTube keeps putting your posts in front of me and this one just hit. A beautiful tribute.
Another story of Nimoy kindness and care of his cast mates in case you never saw it from the Washington Post when Grace Lee Whitney died later in the year after Nimoy -
"Grace Lee Whitney died 2015 at 85
After getting written off the show, Whitney struggled with her career, and alcoholism. She credited co-star Leonard Nimoy with helping her get back on her feet and involved with "Star Trek" once again. She reprised her role in four of the original "Star Trek" films, and in an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" alongside George Takei."
Nimoy also wrote the forward to her book.
A good man or in the words of his earth culture a mensch.

[JillFriedman]

When someone Jewish dies, you say "May their memory be (for) a blessing." There are few people whose passing embodies that phrase like his. LLAP 🖖

[hamobu]

When Leonard Nimoy died at the age of 83, his net worth was 45 million. He LITERALLY lived long and prospered.

[kibblemom]

One thing you neglected to mention was his amazing photography. He was incredibly multi-talented! He was also a good friend. You mentioned Nichelle Nichols and George Takei, but he also supported fellow TOS actor Grace Lee Whitney when she was sexually assaulted by a still-unnamed Paramount executive. He was an anti-war activist during the Viet Nam war, a humanitarian, and also was always supportive of the ST fans, unlike a certain other prominent TOS cast member. I never got to meet him, but I was fortunate enough to see him at several cons and an early poetry reading. I have no doubt that, without him, Star Trek would not be the incredible success it is today. To me, his Spock is at the core of the franchise.

[CarolElaineCyr]

My dad watched Star Trek when I was very young (the show is a few months younger than me), but I didn't really pay attention to it until my pre-teens, when it was in syndication.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock is the main reason I've become a life-long Trekkie. I loved so much about the series in general, but it would have been so much less without his involvement. Like so many people who were seen as weird or outcasts, I identified with him in a way I hadn't with anyone else up until then. That I've since realized that I'm bi and have recently been diagnosed with ADHD certainly explains so much about my outcast status.

I could have met him if I were more brave. He had a photo exhibit at a convention I went to, but he was talking to several other fans, and I was too shy to approach him. I will always regret that.

When he passed away, I was in an original musical that was a sci-fi adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. That night, we changed a character's name to Leonard. We all flashed 🖖🏻 at our curtain call for the rest of the run.

He is, and always will be, in my heart. 💗

[The_Gnome_Chomskee]

The day he died I basically told my boss that I wasn’t coming in, a good friend had passed.

[Theomite]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Spock was God in the eyes of countless autistic kids up until the '00s. He was the embodiment of everything we wanted to be. He remains an indelible spark of inspiration to me even to this day, more so than Yoda (although Yoda is no slouch). I never really consciously thought about life without him, so when Nimoy died, I felt like a piece of me died with him, and I've been incomplete ever since. I can't watch Spock's death scene in WRATH OF KHAN anymore; it just hits too goddamn hard.

On another note, I recall when Spock was to appear on "Reunification" during ST:TNG's original run. We. Lost. Our. Shit. _Star Trek_ was just about 25 years old at the time and we had grown up on TOS, but despite that short length of time, the idea of seeing Spock and Picard meet felt like the culmination of a lifetime's expectation. Then we realized there was a chance he would meet Data and we peed a little. Spock meeting Data? We'd turn down all the video games in the world to see that.

[sara_sah-raezzat]

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
Terry Pratchett

Nimoy left some beautiful ripples that will never die away

[Dominic-Noble]

Gods dammit Jessie, stop making me cry. It's undignified 🧐

[jtzor]

Nimoy is probably best described in three titles:

I Am Not Spock
I Am Spock
and
For The Love Of Spock.

We need to go back to Genesis and pick up his Katra. Get that Space Force off the ground, people.

Seriously, Nimoy continues to live long and prosper, and will still live on as long as he is remembered.

[brentbraniff]

I lost my Dad two weeks before Nimoy passed away and my best friend, Dan (also a Star Trek fan) died a few days before. It was a rough year. As you get older you start losing a lot of people you love. Some are in your life in a personal way and some who you perhaps never met still inspire you in a profound way. My Dad and Dan will live on in my heart, I can still hear my Dad's advice and feel his love...I can still remember Dan's totally inappropriate sense of humor and the conversations that, as kids, lead he and I to come out to each other and realize that we weren't the only gays in the world. I miss them both so very much.
Thanks for the video! You always do such wonderful work!

[mstkhaleesi]

I'm not at all ashamed to admit that this video brought me to tears.

This was such an incredibly beautiful, moving tribute. Everything you do and stand for does Leonard Nimoy proud. I'm not much for spirituality, but I like to think that somewhere among the stars, Leonard Nimoy is smiling.

[HereBeDragonsYT]

In Civilization 4, whenever you unlocked a new technology, Leonard Nimoy would read a historical quote that was relevant to the new tech. Such a talent.

[JanetDax]

Ironically, Spock helped me deal with my emotional nature. He helped embrace rational thought and also not to fear my emotions.

[lindajokensinger]

I met Leonard Nimoy in the early 80's after his one-man production of "Vincent" where he played Vincent VanGogh. He was gracious and kind to a fan-girling teenager. Indeed a wonderful man. RIP ❤🖖

[thefrantasticmissfine]

I had the pleasure of meeting him once, he came to my temple to promote his book "Shekhina" when I was a kid. He spoke fluent Yiddish with my mother, signed my Star Trek shirt (not selling, never, don't ask) and talked about his many inspirations for Spock ( including the origins of 🖖, which is actually the Hebrew letter shin and which rabbis make on Shabbat and high holidays to welcome the "shekhina", or feminine presence of God)
Needless to say, the experience has been difficult to top...

[bethgoldman]

I personally love his body positivity photography of Women’s bodies. I was blessed to see him at the Boston Pops shortly before he died. He did spoken word to music about space and planets!

[gozerthegozarian]

What a beautiful, moving tribute! Thank you for making this, especially the inclusion of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"!🥰😘

[feliciaadams]

I was in highschool when Nimoy died and I found out just before. I got on the bus. I always had a deep respect for Nimoy and loved his work, it wasn't until he died that I knew how much he actually meant to me. I never took the grief that fans feel from death of celebrites seriously until that moment. We lost someone special but he left behind beauty and kindness and a softer world by using his voice and platform to raise others up.

[_mediogre_]

He was such a wonderful man. I'm not a fan of voicing my own sentimentality, but Leonard Nimoy is an exception. Mr. Spock was such an influential figure for me in childhood as well as adulthood and the day he died was shattering. He taught me that it was okay to be different, and that those who truly matter will not only accept those differences but love them because they make you who you are. This video was beautiful and I appreciate you making it. I think Leonard would've appreciated it.