Leonard Nimoy who died today at 83 had a long prodigious career as an actor writer and director. Despite all his other achievements he will always be known as Mr. Spock the half human half Vulcan first officer of Star Trek s Enterprise and that s what I want to focus on here because the pointy eared Starfleet officer was one of the great characters in TV history. He was killed off and then resuscitated not just officially (in the second and third Star Trek films then in J.J. Abrams reboots where he appears as young Spock s grizzled future self) but symbolically in the form of new Trek characters who at times seemed like prismatic shards of Spock and who all grappled with feelings of otherness (Geordi La Forge Worf Data Seven of Nine).
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