If you’re over 30 and male there’s a good chance that at some point during your life you watched ‘Star Trek’. You might not have liked it, but you watched it – at least one episode.
The characters, while somewhat over the top, made the show what it is so it’s with a heavy heart that it be reported Spock of Star Trek has died at 83-years-of-age.
Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, went on to have an extremely successful career in Hollywood though was and will forever be known as the human-alien form who starred in the 1960’s television show.
According to the New York Times, Nimoy, who announced last year he was fighting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, died at his home in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Nimoy, who was teaching Method acting at his own studio when he was cast in the original “Star Trek” television series in the mid-1960s, relished playing outsiders, and he developed what he later admitted was a mystical identification with Spock, the lone alien on the starship’s bridge.
Yet he also acknowledged ambivalence about being tethered to the character, expressing it most plainly in the titles of two autobiographies: “I Am Not Spock,” published in 1977, and “I Am Spock,” published in 1995.
‘Spock’, who had been hospitalized earlier this week, stated that the result of his pulmonary disease was due to years of smoking and while he eventually stopped, the damage was unfortunately done.
