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selenakThere are tributes for Leonard Nimoy everywhere in the media, fannish and professional. My two favourites, short and deeply felt, are this one on what he created when playing Spock, and this brief and wonderful Tolkien/Star Trek crossover.
Being a Star Trek fan, I loved Spock. I did not know Leonard Nimoy. But what glimpses I got of him the long distance way fans do - at conventions, through articles and memoirs - showed a gracious, courteous man, wo, rare in a competitive profession, seems to have had a keen sense of justice when it came to his fellows. George Takei and Walter Koenig both mention in their memoirs that back when Star Trek was off the air and it lookedl ike the only future it would ever have was the cartoon series, the network wanted just to hire the big three - Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley - and let the rest of the crew be voiced by new (and cheaper) actors. Nimoy made sure that Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, James Doohan and Walter Koenig were hired as well. And even further back, during the original run, as Koenig put it in an interview: When it came to the attention of the cast that there was a disparity in pay in that George and I were getting the same pay but Nichelle was not getting as much, I took it to Leonard and he took it to the front office and they corrected that.
I did not know Leonard Nimoy. I am so thankful for what he gave his audience - and that he had a long life, with family and friends at his side, to do so.
Being a Star Trek fan, I loved Spock. I did not know Leonard Nimoy. But what glimpses I got of him the long distance way fans do - at conventions, through articles and memoirs - showed a gracious, courteous man, wo, rare in a competitive profession, seems to have had a keen sense of justice when it came to his fellows. George Takei and Walter Koenig both mention in their memoirs that back when Star Trek was off the air and it lookedl ike the only future it would ever have was the cartoon series, the network wanted just to hire the big three - Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley - and let the rest of the crew be voiced by new (and cheaper) actors. Nimoy made sure that Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, James Doohan and Walter Koenig were hired as well. And even further back, during the original run, as Koenig put it in an interview: When it came to the attention of the cast that there was a disparity in pay in that George and I were getting the same pay but Nichelle was not getting as much, I took it to Leonard and he took it to the front office and they corrected that.
I did not know Leonard Nimoy. I am so thankful for what he gave his audience - and that he had a long life, with family and friends at his side, to do so.
