Leonard Nimoy Leaves For The Undiscovered Country, RIP
This post is going to be personal, and that really can’t be helped, because I loved Leonard Nimoy. Not just for Spock, although that was important, but for everything he brought to the world. Nimoy, who died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease today, felt so strongly that he was more than Spock that in in 1977 he wrote a slim autobiography titled “I Am Not Spock.” When I was a kid I found an old copy of this in a library, and the wisdom and enthusiasm that came through despite a bit of new-agey kitsch showed me he was more than just a character on Star Trek. Of course, Nimoy eventually released a new autobiography in 1995 with the more fan-pleasing title “I Am Spock,” but I thought he explained it well enough in the first volume. He was Spock, and he was more than Spock. “In Spock, I finally found the best of both worlds: to be widely accepted in public approval and yet be able to continue to