Supposed to live forever
Feb. 28th, 2015 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraLeonard Nimoy died yesterday. He was 83 and was sick for a while but it always seems so unfair that someone so awesome is no longer among us. He was still working till recently - on Star Trek movies and of course on Fringe so it was easy to forget his age. There is a lot of touching posts from people whose life he influenced and io9 has a collection of tweets from all over internet from US president to his cast mates to NASA and even from space. Tributes include Canadians turning their prime minister portrait on 5$ bills to Spock and Syfy will marathon movies and episodes with him tomorrow morning.
I was always more TNG fan and I didn't know that much about original series. Star Trek wasn't very popular in Poland so to watch it I had to rely on foreign TV. It helped me learn English first but then that was coded so I switched to German and I still think it's solely responsible for me being decent in understanding the language. My very first encounter with Star Trek was the 4th movie. It was very confusing as I had no knowledge of the characters or anything but it had spaceships and whales so it was awesome. I also saw Return of the Jedi first and read book 3 of Lord of the Rings before 2 so I'm never bothered by spoilers. But Star Trek was first. And his character seemed the most interesting even when I had no idea about the significance of anything he did. But this probably why Spock became such a cultural icon. I loved him on Fringe (especially being evil) and he also directed Three Men and a Baby. He was a poet and a photographer and wasn't above making fun of himself.
I was always more TNG fan and I didn't know that much about original series. Star Trek wasn't very popular in Poland so to watch it I had to rely on foreign TV. It helped me learn English first but then that was coded so I switched to German and I still think it's solely responsible for me being decent in understanding the language. My very first encounter with Star Trek was the 4th movie. It was very confusing as I had no knowledge of the characters or anything but it had spaceships and whales so it was awesome. I also saw Return of the Jedi first and read book 3 of Lord of the Rings before 2 so I'm never bothered by spoilers. But Star Trek was first. And his character seemed the most interesting even when I had no idea about the significance of anything he did. But this probably why Spock became such a cultural icon. I loved him on Fringe (especially being evil) and he also directed Three Men and a Baby. He was a poet and a photographer and wasn't above making fun of himself.
